John lennon murdered why

Yoko Ono was devastated when she was given the news. She had the horrifying task of telling her five year old son that his father had died before Sean could hear it through the media. A large chunk of America discovered that one of The Beatles had been murdered when the news was announced during Monday Night Football, which was on TV that evening. The news broke overnight in Lennon's native UK.

John's other son, Julian , his Aunt Mimi and his former bandmates were all informed in the early hours of Tuesday 9 December George Harrison issued a statement, saying: "After all we went through together, I had and still have great love and respect for him.

I am shocked and stunned. Paul McCartney was doorstepped by press on his way out of a recording studio. When asked for a comment on Lennon's death, McCartney couldn't articulate his grief, blurting out the flippant words: "Drag, isn't it? There was no funeral for John Lennon, just a private cremation. But Yoko and Sean held a vigil for the Beatle on 14 December with ten minutes of silence. Lennon's ashes were scattered in Central Park, opposite the Dakota, where there now lies a memorial called Strawberry Fields.

In Britain, Lennon's music was everywhere. Christmas that year was tinged with sadness - Just Like Starting Over went to No 1 in the charts, quickly followed by the classic Imagine , which stayed at the top for four weeks.

Then Imagine was knocked off the top spot by Woman , a song from Double Fantasy. The rest of the songs that John had recorded before his death were eventually issued as the album Milk And Honey in Mark Chapman was interviewed for hundreds of hours by court-appointed psychiatrists on behalf of defence and prosecution lawyers. The defence concluded that Chapman was a paranoid schizophrenic, while the prosecution claimed he was competent to stand trial. Chapman himself took the decision to plead guilty to the murder and he was sentenced to 20 years to life.

In , forty years after the murder, Chapman was up for parole for the eleventh time. The judge turned him down, claiming that the killer's release "would be incompatible with the welfare of society". Chapman is eligible for parole again in , when he will be 67 years old.

I think about it all of the time. In , the Japanese artist - who has contested each one of Chapman's attempts at parole - told The Daily Beast that she lived in fear of him being let out of prison. It could be me, it could be Sean [her son], it could be anybody, so there is that concern," she said. The latest hearing documents, obtained by the Press Association, show the board rejected his release on the grounds it "would be incompatible with the welfare of society". Chapman was 25 at the time of the crime.

Now 65, he is married and his wife lives near the facility where he has been for the last eight years. At the parole board meeting he was described as being deeply religious and a "devoted Christian". He is also a clerk and a porter in a restricted block of the prison, where he was placed for his own safety. Chapman later said: "He told us to imagine no possessions and there he was, with millions of dollars and yachts and farms and country estates, laughing at people like me who had believed the lies and bought the records and built a big part of their lives around his music.

He was also obsessed with the concept of anti-phoniness as agonized over by the fictional protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye," Holden Caulfield. At that point, my mind was going through a total blackness of anger and rage. Read more. Newsweek magazine delivered to your door Unlimited access to Newsweek. I didn't. I just judged him from a book and I murdered him. He was in a book. He was extremely famous. I didn't kill him because of his character or the kind of man he was.

He was a family man. He was an icon. He was someone that spoke of things that now we can speak of and it's great," he said. Chapman continued, "Back in the '60s when you said the things that he said, you were a creep.

I remember I was in my 20s and I was conscious of the times and the press and presidency and all of that and how they looked upon anti-war people.