Tuesday, 8 December 2020

Date With History: 1980

Monday, December 8th:
John Winston Lennon,
aged 40, was shot four
times in the back by
Mark Chapman, who
earlier today had asked
the former Beatle for
his autograph. Lennon
was rushed from the
scene - the Dakota 
apartment building in
Manhattan - with his 
wife Yoko Ono, to St. Luke's Roosevelt 
Hospital Centre, where 
he died. 
Chapman pleaded guilty
to killing Lennon, and
blamed voices in his
head. He is currently 
serving a life sentence
in Attica prison, Wyoming county, NY.

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