Today in History

December 8, 1980

The Murder of John Lennon

On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shot musician and former Beatles lyricist John Lennon four times in the back in the entrance of Lennon's home, the Dakota apartment building on Manhattan's Central Park West. Lennon, who was with his wife Yoko Ono and others at the time of the shooting, was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital emergency room at 11:15 p.m. at the age of 40 years old. Chapman waited for the police to arrive and was arrested. Assessed as delusional, Chapman was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years to life. He carried with him a copy of Catcher in the Rye.


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