there was absolutely no evidence suggesting he was assisted or aided by another person. he was simply someone who acted alone without assistance of other people. i ve been through every fbi document in john s file. there is not one shred of evidence to suggest that the u.s. government had the least interest in john after 1972. what do you make of all the conspiracy theories that have come up in the last 12 years? cia, mind control, et cetera? against john lennon? yeah. hog wash. no one asked you to do it. no one prompted you to do it, no cabal, nothing? no, they probably wish they would have had me, larry, but they didn t. this was me doing it. more than 30 years after killing john lennon, mark chapman remains in prison. he first became eligible for parole in the year 2000. he has been denied at least seven times since then. i think it s best for mark chapman to stay in psychiatric
when the defendant entered the guilty plea, i was disappointed by that fact, i was looking forward to the opportunity to prove the facts that we had assembled in a public trial. mark david chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life, and sent to the new york state penitentiary at attica. in his interview with larry king, chapman claimed to have recovered from the mental illness that had led to his crime. it was me, larry. and i accept full responsibility for what i did. i have seen places where i am blaming the devil, and i hope that isn t kept going after this interview. i m not blaming the devil. i m blaming myself, but in a major sense, it wasn t me because i m better now. i m sorry for what i did. i realize now that i really ended a man s life. i just saw him as a two-dimensional celebrity with no real feelings. he was an album cover to me.
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that time did. but in 1971, chapman becomes a born again christian, he quits drugs and rejects rock n roll, the beatles and john lennon in particular. well, i became a christian when i was 16. and that lasted about a year of genuine walking with him, through my life, off and on, i have struggled with different hinges, as we all do. and at those times, i would turn to the lord. chapman s new found faith comes into conflict with his feelings about his former idol. according to friends, chapman was notably bothered by lennon s song god in which he states i don t believe in jesus. and his hit imagine with lyrics, imagine there s no countries and no religion, too. chapman wrote his own words imagine john lennon dead. the defendant claimed that
and i say to myself, that phony, that bastard, i got that mad, i took the book home to my wife and i said, look, he s a phony. this is his calendar from december of 79 to december of 80. it leads you through the manic months before his death. writer jim gaines spent hundreds of hours between 1984 and 1985 interviewing mark chapman. and you can see it becomes crazier and crazier with crossings-out and things to do. chapman told gaines, his mind had been like a war zone occupied by opposing forces he described as the big people and the little people. he had a whole population of little people living in his head. to whom he gave instructions who had meetings about what his activities should be. i mean, it was extreme. seething with anger, chapman