Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapmanis an American prison inmate who murdered John Lennon on December 8, 1980. Chapman shot Lennon outside The Dakota apartment building in New York City. Chapman fired at Lennon five times, hitting him four times in the back. Chapman later remained at the crime scene reading J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye until the police arrived and arrested him. He repeatedly said that the novel was his statement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth10 March 1955
CountryUnited States of America
It is good to be skeptical, to ask “is this really true?,” to take nothing at face value. It is not good to blind yourself to what you can see is true, useful, or beautiful because you are afraid to trust.
Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.
I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.
Mr. Lennon would want me free, and I'd like to clear that up.
It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.
I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.
I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.
I wanted to be videotaped.
I just shot John Lennon.
I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.
I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.
I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved.
I was a master at keeping my feelings in.
I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.