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Paul McCartney's Reaction to the News of John Lennon's Death from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
"Yeah.... Drag, isn't it?"
Paul McCartney's Reaction to the News of John Lennon's Death from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
"Yeah.... Drag, isn't it?"
The Crime Scene: The Dakota
John Lennon was shot and killed on December 8, 1980, at about 10:50 pm, as he and his wife Yoko Ono attempted to enter their apartment at the Dakota building on West 72nd Street in Manhattan across from Central Park West. Lennon and Ono were returning from a record plant when the shooting occurred. Ironically, Lennon had autographed a copy of his most recent album (Double Fantasy) for the accused assailant as Lennon and Ono left for the record plant at around 5:00 pm that evening.
The Dakota is an upscale older apartment/condominium complex with an entrance on West 72nd Street. The entrance is two stories high with a fancy archway overhead.
Architecturally, the Dakota is a set of buildings covering an entire block, as shown in aerial photography seen here.
The elegant building complex has two security levels: a guard booth at the entrance (left), and a main lobby about 25-to-30 feet inside the front entrance (right).
A doorman is stationed at the guard booth and keeps watch over the entrance. A desk clerk is stationed at the main lobby. Someone is on duty at both positions 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
A maintenance man (concierge) is frequently on duty as well, but it is unclear if that position is filled 24-by-7 like the others. The maintenance man is apparently stationed at a concierge stand in the main lobby, next to the front desk. I observed such a person assist the doorman unload luggage from an SUV temporarily parked in the entryway.
The maintenance man then carried the luggage through a door which apparently leads to a service elevator.
A maintenance man (aka, elevator operator; aka, handyman) was reportedly on duty the night Lennon was killed. In fact, Lennon reportedly collapsed by the concierge stand after being shot.
There are seven critical locations in the entrance area:
(1) the arched entrance; this is where Chapman reportedly stood when the shots were fired.
(2) the courtyard gates
(3) the "entryway" which provides passage from the entrance to the courtyard gates, a distance of about 47 feet from the front entrance to the courtyard
(4) the doorman's booth (aka, the guard booth) on the outside of the entrance to the left
(5) a lobby on the right (not shown in picture) where Lennon collapsed after being shot; six stairs lead to the lobby
(6) a service elevator on the left, (not shown)
(7) a door on the left (not shown) which leads to the service elevator.
Fenton Bresler described in great detail—in his book, Who Killed John Lennon? (1989)—how Chapman purchased—on October 27, 1980—a .38 Special revolver from J&S Enterprises Ltd, a gun shop in midtown Honolulu.
Bresler even provided the weapon’s serial number, 577570, and implied that the stated weapon was used by Chapman to murder John Lennon about six weeks later on December 8, 1980.15
The NYPD’s police report indicates that a ".38 cal snub nose" was the weapon found at the crime scene; however, the serial number is not shown in the report.
Consequently, it is unclear if the serial number of the .38 revolver purchased by Chapman on October 27, 1980 matches the weapon found by the NYPD at the crime scene on December 8, 1980.
Tracing the murder weapon is convoluted because Chapman made two trips to New York City:
On the first trip, there is little doubt that Chapman carried the .38 revolver, serial # 577570, as Bresler described.
one from October 29, 1980 through November 10, 1980;
another on December 6, 1980.
On the first trip, there is little doubt that Chapman carried the .38 revolver, serial # 577570, as Bresler described.
In fact, Bresler gave a detailed account of how Chapman brought the gun with him to NYC on October 29th but forgot to bring bullets, and subsequently flew to Atlanta to get hollow-point bullets from his cop friend, Dana Reeves (aka, Gene Scott).
The reason for the Atlanta trip was because NYC forbade the purchase of ammunition by persons not living in the state of New York.
This is an unnecessary layer of confusion since Reeves’s identity was revealed by Jim Gaines in an article, "Descent Into Madness," published in People Magazine on June 22, 1981.It is impossible to determine if the gun Chapman purchased on October 27, 1980 is the same one found by the NYPD at the crime scene on December 8, 1980.
Bresler even introduces the possibility that Chapman threw the gun and the bullets into the ocean after returning to Honolulu from his first trip :
"By late November Mark was telling Gloria [his wife] that it was time he grew up.
He was a married man now and ought to be able to support a family.
What he needed to do first, however, was to go off by himself for a while, to think things over.
He had decided to return to New York.
She needn’t fear that he would do anything wrong.
He had thrown the gun and the bullets into the ocean."
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