Hollywood actor Michael Douglas revealed that he turned a campaigner to finish gun violence after getting caught within the “fracas” surrounding John Lennon’s homicide when he was strolling residence previous the Beatles legend’s condominium constructing.
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A man who helped define rock and roll, a leader of the peace movement, an icon of the Baby Boom generation, his sudden shooting death at the hands of Mark David Chapman inspired shock and mourning, and for many marked the end of an era.
The Beatles, and John Lennon in particular, used their huge popularity to disseminate a sort of benign antiwar publicity politics. He has been denied several attempts at parole, the most recent in August 2014.
We will never know. A view of Central Park was in the background.
On Dec. 8, 1980, ABC began the network’s late-night news program with the news that the Beatles star had been shot three times.
He told the New York Daily News newspaper’s Confidenti@l column: “There’s not much I can do about it, can I?”
Though John Lennon’s birthday was in October, that did not cease the mass media from celebrating the life of the great founding member of the Beatles. The suspect was identified as Mark David Chapman, 25, of Hawaii, who had been living in NY for about a week, according to James L. Sullivan, chief of detectives of the 20th Precinct. Chapman screamed out John’s name to get his attention, took a combat stance, and fired his gun five times at John. Despite being rushed to the nearby Roosevelt Hospital, the singer and peace campaigner was pronounced dead shortly after his arrival. The “Strawberry Fields” section was landscaped by Yoko Ono.
The rest of the day saw Lennon in the recording studio, where he and Yoko spent four-and-half-hours working on the song Walking on Thin Ice.
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A police spokesman said a suspect was in custody, but he had no other details of the shooting. “John Lennon was just a complete c***!”
