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Dakota. less than two minutes after receiving the call nypd officer peter cullen and his partner were there. there was a man standing in the street pointing into the archway saying that s the man doing the shooting. and i thought he meant the handyman because he was dressed in kind of old clothes. he says no, not him, him. he pointed to chapman. he says he shot john lennon and my reaction was he did what? chapman s demeanor was very calm. it was almost like he hadn t done anything. i put this guy against the wall and the next thing this guy says to me is i acted alone. which i thought was a very strange statement to make at the time. while they dealt with chapman, officers ton he rusheo the security office. i saw the woman standing over a body that was laying ....
Now fox 5 that he picked up the killer who claimed to be an engineer for the rolling stones and that he had just come from a recording session. he said lennon and mccartney were there and they met me and they told me how much they admired my work as an engineer. to me this is so ecstatic to think that john lennon and paul mccartney would tell me how great my work it. the killer checked into a $16.50 a night room at the 63rd street ymca. the next night he moved to the more upscale shara ton center on 7th avenue where he stayed in room 2730. he staked out the dakota for almost three days. there were lots of fans outside the daka dakota every day. he would stand out there and wonder amgying to do this or not really do this. monday, december 8. ....
1977. new york city was becoming the epicenter of disco. but during that june john lennon was embracing his role as a house husband, raising shawn at the dakota. meanwhile, five thousand miles away in hawaii, a disturbed 22-year-old by the name of mark david chapman was intent on killing himself. he was an odd ball kid. journalist jim gaines spent more than 50 hours interviewing chapman for people magazine. he made up friends and little people to have play mates. like millions of other teenagers, chapman had worshiped the beatles, especially john lennon. following their lead he began to experiment with drugs like marijuana, cocaine and lsd. i was nothing but a dope head and i asked christ to come into my life. at age 16, chapman declared ....
the return of the 40-year-old supertar back to the spot light was getting a lot of press that fall. lennon was on an upswing. but in hawaii now working as a security guard, mark david chapman continued his own downward spiral. i was getting depressed again and i was just sick and tired of everything. chapman read a book called john lennon one day at a time which described his luxurious lifestyle in the dakota. now, he said he felt betrayed by the man saying imagine no possessions. when i read it i was angered. chapman had also developed an obsession with j.d.salinger s 1951 novel catcher in the ry. you would see that i m the ....
All. he had the media and the american public squarely behind him. this was a losing battle that the government was fighting but it still carried on a very long time. still immerse in their legal battle, john and yoko traded downtown for uptown in 1973. they move inside the new york legendary dakota building situated at the corner of west 72nd street in central park west. and their new neighbors included actress lauren becall and composer leonard bernstein. are despite outward appearances all was not well in the lennon s marriage. there was an impasse between john and yoko. what caused it i don t know but there came a time when something wasn t working and youngsters he co-suggested that john go d.c and yoko suggested that he go to los angeles and he did. life in los angeles was a ....