John Lennon is a British musician who gained worldwide fame as a member of The Beatles, for his next solo career, and for political activism and pacifism. On Monday night, December 8, 1980, Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman at the Dakota gate, his residence in New York City. Lennon has just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono.
After suffering four major gunshot wounds, Lennon was declared dead upon arrival at Roosevelt Hospital. There, personnel state that no one can live longer than a few minutes after suffering such injuries. Shortly after the local news station reported Lennon's death, the crowd gathered at Roosevelt Hospital and in front of Dakota. Lennon was cremated at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York two days after his death; his ashes were given to Ono, who chose not to hold a funeral for him. The first media report on Lennon's death to a US national audience was announced by sports announcer Howard Cosell, on ABC Monday Night Football.
Chapman pleaded guilty to the murder of Lennon and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for life. He has been in prison since then, has denied parole nine times in the middle of the campaign against his release after he qualified in 2000.
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Events that precede killing
December 8, 1980
Photographer Annie Leibovitz goes to Lennons's apartment to do a photo shoot for Rolling Stone magazine. Leibovitz promised Lennon that a photo with Ono would be the front cover of the magazine, although at first he tried to take a picture with Lennon himself. Leibovitz said, "No one wants [Ono] on the cover". Lennon insisted that both he and his wife were on the cover, and after taking pictures, Leibovitz left their apartment at 3:30 pm After the photo shoot, Lennon gave what would be his final interview, to DJ San Francisco Dave Sholin, for a music show to be broadcast on RKO Radio Network. At 5:40 pm, Lennon and Ono, delayed by the final limousine, left their apartment to mix the song "Walking on Thin Ice" (an Ono song featuring Lennon on the main guitar) at Record Plant Studio.
Mark David Chapman
Around 5:00, Lennon and Ono walked into the limo (along with the RKO Radio crew) when they were approached by Mark David Chapman, who was looking for a signature. It's common for fans to wait outside Dakota to meet Lennon and ask for his autograph. Chapman, a 25-year-old security guard from Honolulu, Hawaii, had previously traveled to New York to kill Lennon in October (before the Double Fantasy release), but has changed his mind and returned home. Chapman secretly handed Lennon copies of Double Fantasy, and Lennon was required by signature. After signing the album, Lennon asked, "Is this all you want?" Chapman smiled and nodded in agreement. Photographer and fan Lennon Paul Goresh took photos of the meeting. Chapman had been waiting for Lennon outside the Dakota since morning and even approached the five-year-old son of Lennons, Sean, who was with family caretaker Helen Seaman when they returned home in the afternoon. According to Chapman, he briefly touched the boy's hand.
The Lennons spent several hours in the Record Plant studio before returning to Dakota at 10:50. Lennon decided not to have dinner so he could come home in time to say good night to his son, before going to Stage Deli restaurant with Ono. Lennon likes to oblige, with signatures or drawings, any fans who have waited long to meet him, and once said during an interview December 6, 1980 with Andy Peebles BBC Radio: "People come and ask for a signature, or say 'Hi, but they do not bother you. "The Lennons came out of their limo on 72nd Street instead of driving to the safer Dakota yard.
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Murder
Dakota goalkeeper Jose Perdomo and the nearest taxi driver saw Chapman standing in the shadows near the archway. As Lennon passed, he glanced briefly at Chapman, appearing to recognize him from the very beginning of the same evening. Seconds later, Chapman aimed at the center of Lennon's back and fired five hollow bullets at him from the Charter Weapon.38 The Revolver was special, in rapid succession, from a distance of about nine or ten feet (about 3 m).
Based on a statement made that night by NYPD's Chief Detective James Sullivan, many radio, television and newspaper reports claimed at the time, before firing, Chapman called out, "Mr. Lennon", and fell into combat position. The hearing and witness interview then did not include "Mr. Lennon" or the description of "battle". Chapman said he did not remember calling Lennon before he was fired, and that Lennon did not turn around. He claimed to have taken a "fighting attitude" in a 1992 interview with Barbara Walters.
The first bullet failed, past Lennon's head and crashed into the window of the Dakota building. The next two bullets hit Lennon on the left side of his back, and the other two pierced his left shoulder. Lennon, bleeding profusely from the outside wound and from his mouth, stumbled five paces into the security/reception area where he said, "I got shot, I was shot". He then fell to the floor, scattering the tapes he was carrying. Perdomo ran in and told the concierge Jay Hastings that the assailant had dropped his gun on the sidewalk. Hastings first started making tourniquet, but after tearing Lennon's bloodied clothes and noticing the heaviness of the musicians, he covered Lennon's chest in his uniform jacket, removed his blood-covered glasses, and called the police.
Chapman then took off his coat and hat in preparation for the arrival of the police - to show that he had not brought a hidden weapon - and remained standing on West 72nd Street. Perdomo shouted at Chapman, "Do you know what you just did?", Which Chapman calmly replied, "Yes, I just shot John Lennon."
Officers Steven Spiro and Peter Cullen were the first officers to arrive at the scene; they were on 72nd Street and Broadway when they heard reports of shots in the direction of Dakota. Officers arrived about two minutes later and found Chapman standing quietly on West 72nd Street. They reported that Chapman dropped the revolver to the ground and held the paperback book, J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye . They immediately put Chapman in the handcuffs and placed him in the backseat of their patrol car. Chapman made no attempt to escape or refuse the arrest.
He then claimed, "If you can see an actual copy of The Catcher in the Rye taken from me on the night of December 8th, you will find in it handwritten words, 'This is my statement.' "
Officer Herb Frauenberger and his partner Tony Palma were the second team, arriving a few minutes later. They found Lennon lying face down on the floor of the reception area, blood flowing from his mouth and his clothes wet with blood, with Hastings watching him. Realizing the magnitude of Lennon's injuries, the police decided not to wait for the ambulance and immediately took Lennon to their patrol car. He was rushed to St. Hospital's Hospital. Luke's-Roosevelt. Officer James Moran said they put Lennon in the back seat.
Reportedly, Moran asked, "Are you John Lennon?" Lennon nodded and replied, "Yes." But there are conflicting accounts. According to another account by officer Bill Gamble, Lennon nodded slightly and tried to speak, but could only make a gurgling sound, and lost consciousness shortly afterwards.
Dr. Stephan Lynn is the head of the Emergency Department at Roosevelt Hospital. She was called again after returning home after work shift for 13 hours. Lynn was in the emergency room a few minutes before 11:00 when Officer Frauenberger and Moran arrived with Lennon in their patrol car. Moran took Lennon on his back and into the gurney, asking the doctor for a gunshot wound. When Lennon is brought in, he has no pulse and does not breathe. Lynn, two other doctors, a nurse, and two or three other medics worked at Lennon for ten to fifteen minutes in a desperate attempt to wake him up. As a last resort, Lynn cut Lennon's chest and tried a manual heart massage to restore circulation, but he quickly discovered that damage to blood vessels above and around Lennon's heart caused some bullet wounds too big.
Lennon was declared dead on arrival by Dr. Lynn at 11:15, but at 11:07 pm. has also been reported. The surgeon noted - as did other witnesses - that the Beatles song ("All My Loving") appeared on the hospital sound system when Lennon was declared dead. Lennon's body was then taken to the city morgue at 520 First Avenue for an autopsy. The cause of death was reported in his death certificate as "hypovolemic shock, caused by loss of more than 80% of blood volume due to multiple shot-through-and-through injuries to the left shoulder and left chest resulting in damage to the left side." lungs and left subclavian artery and aortic arch. "The pathologist who performed the autopsy at Lennon also stated in his report that even with prompt medical care, nobody could live more than a few minutes with multiple bullet wounds in all the major arteries and veins around the heart.
Three of the four bullets that hit Lennon's back through the body and out of his chest. One bullet hit and became lodged in his left upper arm, while the fourth was lodged in the aorta beside his heart. Almost everything will be fatal, because every bullet hit the vital artery around the heart. Lennon was shot four times from close range with a hollow bullet and his affected organ - especially his left lung and the main blood vessel above his heart - was nearly destroyed when hit by a collision. Lynn then declares to reporters about Lennon's injuries: "If he [Lennon] was shot in this way in the middle of the operating room with the entire team of surgeons ready to work on him... he still would not have survived his injuries".
When Lynn told Ono about her husband's death, she started crying and said, "Oh no, no, no, no... tell me it's not true!" Lynn remembers that Ono lies down and starts hitting her head to the floor, but calm down when a nurse gives Lennon's wedding ring to her. Still in shock, he was taken away from Roosevelt Hospital by a policeman and Geffen Records president, David Geffen.
The above-mentioned account was denied by David Halleran, a surgical resident responsible for ER Roosevelt Hospital at the time of Lennon's death, in a 2005 article New York Times and subsequent interviews. Lennon is his patient, and he's the one doing the surgery. Two other doctors came into the treatment room and were helped. This is what is portrayed in The Lennon Report (2016) and the reason why it was made;
"The reason we bring this story up is that in order for truth to have weight or credibility, one really needs to understand what is happening One of the greatest revelations of this film is Dr. David Halleran... not Dr. Stephan Lynn... performs surgery on Lennon that night... Dr. Marks, who works with Halleran. "
Credit at the end of the film contains eyewitnesses by those present at the ER. Yoko Ono's account of banging her head on the floor was denied by the two nurses who were there.
Announcement
Monday Night Football
Ono asked the hospital not to report to the media that her husband had died until she told their five-year-old Sean, who was home. Ono said he might be watching television and did not want him to know his father's death from the TV announcement. Meanwhile, news producer Alan J. Weiss from WABC-TV has been waiting to be treated at Roosevelt ER Hospital after being injured in a motorcycle accident early in the night. Weiss recalled in a 2013 interview for the Crimes of the Century CNN series that he had seen Lennon being pushed into a room surrounded by several police officers. After he knew what had happened, Weiss called back to the station to convey the information. Finally, words pave the way for the chain of command to ABC News president Roone Arledge, who was tasked with finding ways to bring this great development to audiences.
While all this is happening, Arledge, who is also the network sports division president, leads ABC's broadcast from Monday Night Football in his capacity as an executive producer. When Arledge received word of Lennon's death, a match between the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins was tied with less than a minute left in the fourth quarter and the Patriot was driving toward a potential winning score. When the Patriots tried to put themselves in position for field purposes, Arledge told Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell about the shootings and suggested that those who reported the murder. Cosell, who had interviewed Lennon during the Monday Night Football broadcast in 1974, was chosen to do so but was initially apprehensive, because he felt the game should take precedence and that was not their place. to break such a big story. Gifford convinces Cosell otherwise, saying that he should not "hold on" (news) "because the meaning of the show is far greater than the end of the game.
The following exchange began with thirty seconds left in the fourth quarter, shortly after Gifford and Cosell were informed of what had happened:
Cosell : Ã,... but [game] is suddenly placed in total perspective for us; I will finish this, they are in a hurry.
Gifford : Fourth, four. [Chuck] Foreman... it will be fourth. [Matt] Cavanaugh will let him run for one last attempt, he will let the seconds pass to give Miami any chance. (Whistle blows.) Timeout is called with three seconds left, John Smith is on the line. And I do not care what's on the line, Howard, you have to say what we know at the booth.
Cosell : Yes, we have to say it. Remember this is just a football game, no matter who wins or loses. An unspeakable tragedy confirmed by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside his apartment building on West Side New York City, the most famous perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice behind, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital , dead on arrival. It's hard to get back to the game after the newsflash, which, in a bound duty, we have to take. Frank?
Gifford : (after pause) It's true.
Other announcements
NBC momentarily broke his East Coast bait for the Lennon death bulletin before returning to the comedy of Johnny Carson. New York Radio station WNEW-FM 102.7 immediately suspended all programs and opened its channel for calls from listeners. Stations across the country are turning to special programs devoted to Lennon and/or Beatles music.
The next day, Ono issued a statement: "There is no funeral for John John loves and prays for mankind Please do the same for him Love, Yoko and Sean."
Aftermath
On the day after the assassination, former Lennon team mate Paul McCartney left an Oxford Street recording studio when reporters asked him about his reaction; he replied, "Pull it, is not it?". When published, the response was criticized, and even McCartney himself regretted a seemingly banal statement. McCartney later said that he intended to be disrespectful and could not say more, given the shock and sadness he felt for Lennon's killing.
Lennon's death sparked a worldwide outpouring of sadness on an unprecedented scale. His body was cremated at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York; no funeral was held. Ono sends news to people singing outside the Dakota that their singing keeps him awake; he requested that they reunite at Central Park's Naumburg Bandshell the following Sunday for ten minutes of silent prayer. On December 14, 1980, millions of people around the world responded to Ono's request to pause for ten minutes in silence to remember Lennon. Thirty thousand people gathered in Lennon's hometown of Liverpool, England, and the largest group - more than 225,000 - gathered in Central Park, close to the set. During those ten minutes, every radio station in New York City exploded.
At least three Beatles fans committed suicide after the killing, causing Ono to appeal to the public asking the mourners not to give in to despair. On January 18, 1981, a full-page open letter from Ono appeared on The New York Times and The Washington Post. Entitled "In Gratitude", it expresses gratitude to the millions who mourn John's loss and want to know how they can commemorate his life and help him and Sean.
Ono released his solo album, Season of Glass , in 1981. The cover of this album is a photo of Lennon's bloodstained eyeglasses. In the same year he also released "Walking on Thin Ice", a song that Lennons had mixed in the Record Plant less than an hour before he was killed, as a single. Chapman pleaded guilty in 1981 to killing Lennon. Under the terms of the guilty plea, he was sentenced to 20 years for life and then automatically became eligible for parole in 2000. However, Chapman has been denied parole nine times and remains imprisoned in the Wende Correctional Facility.
Memorial and tribute
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