At a 2010 hearing, Chapman recalled that he had considered shooting Johnny Carson or Elizabeth Taylor instead, and said that he chose Lennon because the ex-Beatle was more accessible, that his century-old luxury apartment building “wasn’t quite as cloistered”.
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Thirty-five years ago on December 8, Mark David Chapman shot and killed Lennon, a former Beatles member.
The Beatles, and John Lennon in particular, used their huge popularity to disseminate a sort of benign antiwar publicity politics.
Lennon, who together with Paul McCartney fronted the most influential rock band in history, would be 75 years old had he lived.
The ceremony is scheduled to run from 6 to 8 p.m.at 1750 N. Vine St., Hollywood. When police arrived, Chapman was arrested without any incident. Lennon wanted to have his wife in the picture with him.
Today, December 8th, marks the 35th anniversary of John Lennon’s death.
The shooting had severed Lennon’s aortic arch and he had lost approximately 80 per cent of his blood. It is across the street from Central Park.
In a poignant message to her followers (complete with a graphic photo of her late husband’s bloodied sunglasses), Ono writes that there have been more than one million victims of gun violence in the United States since Lennon’s murder.
Doctors strove to save the internationally known pacifist from what would be his violent demise, but he was pronounced dead within 15 minutes as “All My Loving” hummed on Roosevelt Hospital’s speakers in the background. He was denied parole in August past year.
It was on this day in 1980 that John Lennon was shot dead outside the Dakota Building in Manhattan. The “Strawberry Fields” section was landscaped by Yoko Ono.
“This was no robbery”, the spokesman said, adding that Mr Lennon was probably shot by a “deranged” person.
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After being introduced by Kevin Bacon, who emceed the evening, the country trio performed “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” off of The Beatles’ 1965 album Help!
