Imagine: Unfortunately, John Lennon, who wrote songs against war and violence, was the target of violence. He died with 4 bullets. Let's continue to dream of a peaceful world where lives are not taken, despite everything.
December 8, 1980…
When he left the Dakota Apartments in West Park, a man approached him. Lennon was heading to the studio to record.
At the request of the man who said he was his "fan", he signed the piece of paper handed to him. He continued on his way.
When he returned with his wife Yoko Ono in the evening, the man was there again. Yoko entered the apartment door first. Then John Lennon was about to enter when the man called out:
“Mr Lennon!”
When the music guru turned back to the direction of the sound, he came face to face with the man he had signed an autograph with that morning.
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American man who murdered English musician John Lennon in New York City on December 8, 1980. As Lennon walked into the archway of his apartment building The Dakota, Chapman fired five shots at Lennon from a few yards away with a Charter Arms Undercover .38 Special revolver. Lennon was hit four times from the back. He was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. Chapman remained at the scene following the shooting and made no attempt to flee or resist arrest.
The man was kneeling with one leg forward. He pointed the barrel of the gun he was holding in his hand at John.
This was the stance of an expert marksman in order not to miss the target.
He pulled the trigger 5 times in a row.
One of the bullets missed. 4 of them hit John Lennon.
Fell down. His head was in the palms of his wife, Yoko Ono.
Despite all efforts in the ambulance, John Lennon died from blood loss.
John and no one else had ever “dreamed” this.
As Time Magazine put it, “music was dead.”
John Lennon was cremated.
His ashes were delivered to his wife.
The killer's name was Mark David Charman.
He was a fan of the “music guru” he killed.
Despite allegations that he was "mentally unstable", he was sentenced to "life imprisonment with parole in 20 years".
Under his arm that day, the killer had the 100 million-selling book The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger.
A novel that tells "the depression and youth rebellions of a bourgeois child"...
It was Chapman who pulled the trigger, but was there anyone who "pulled the trigger"?
This question has been discussed for a long time.
British lawyer and journalist Fenton Bressler, who wrote the book "Who Killed John Lennon", wrote the following, claiming that it was based on witnesses and documents:
“Killer Mark Davis Chapman is not a disappointed die-hard fan; “He is a mind-controlled shooter.”
THE NUMBERS OF POLITICIANS
Who or what might have killed him and why?
To answer this question, comments focus on his political attitudes.
While John Lennon was living in New York, he was giving people in Washington a real headache.
An essential part of his identity was his political stance.
He was against the Vietnam War.
He was participating in events to put an end to this "dirty war".
The song “Imagine” became an “anthem” of opposition to the Vietnam War.
It was voiced by hundreds of thousands.
On his last day, Lennon said, "I will continue to fight as long as I don't die," without knowing that he would be the target of bullets a few hours later.
To his struggle for “peace”…
The massive public demonstrations against the War in Vietnam, in which he participated, were putting great public pressure on the White House.
Did the deep state eliminate this "rebel"?
Such claims have been made.
These discussions flare up on the anniversary of Lennon's death and then fade away.