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Emergency room doctor pronounces john lennon dead. >> former beatle john lennon was gunned down in front of his exclusive manhattan apartment. >> ending the life of a folk hero. >> the co-op building where he was gunned down as he -- >> the news ripped through the air in shock waves. john lennon shot and killed in the dakota apartment building. >> it was really shocking. >> 40 years old. >> how could he be dead? how could this have happened? >> the city was in shock. not just people my generation that grew up listening to their music in the '60s. i think just about everybody felt that on so ma...

>> i've been through every fbi document in john's file. there's not one shred of evidence to suggest that the u.s. government had the least interest in job john after 1972. >> what do you make of the conspiracy theories in the last year, 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 or nothing? >> no they probably wish they would have had me. 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 i...

Manhatt manhattan? he said, it's cool, people don't bother you. >> he loved new york because people didn't bother him. in new york, they respected his privacy and say, hey, john, how's things going, they'd shake his hand and say john, i like your music or something. but they didn't pester him. >> in november 1980, lennon emerged from his retirement with a release of "double fantasy," an album he's recorded with ono. lennon had just turned 40. to many, it seemed that john lennon had entered a promising new phase. but this image of a happy, contented husband and father would only serve to enrage...

He said, you never know, he might go to spain or something and you might never see him again. >> i wanted him to stay because i wanted out of there. there was a great part of me that didn't want to be there. >> you would have killed him the next day? >> oh, yes, i probably would have come back. >> after gorish leaves chapman remains in front of the dakota. he waits patiently for some two and a half hours. >> i was sitting the inside of the arch, the dakota building. and it was dark. was windy. jose, the doorman, was out along the sidewalk. and i see this limousine pull up. and i said, this is ...

Apartments. the dakota's gothic facade had been featured in the film "rosemary's baby." it was home to some of the world's most famous artists, actors and musicians. >> i think he felt it was time for a change and i think they viewed america as being a breath of fresh air for them at that time. little did they know what trouble awaits them. >> in new york, john and yoko adopted a high- profile, politically and musically. perhaps inevitably their anti-war activism drew the attention and ire of the nixon administration. >> in the early '70s, the united states government began a campaign against ...