Chapman told Jones in “Let Me Take You Down” that he had killed John Lennon to “promote the reading of The Catcher in the Rye,” copies of which he regularly signed and passed out in prison.

John Lennon was fatally shot outside of his New York City apartment on Dec. 8, 1980 Nicole Briese is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has ...

Mark David Chapman, the man who fatally shot John Lennon in 1980 ... In a partly redacted statement, they wrote that Chapman killed Lennon “for no reason other than to gain notoriety.” ...

Artist Robert Morgan was in his apartment when he heard the shots that killed the music icon. He recalls that horrific night in the new documentary 'Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade'.

Natalie Webster has opened up about her eerie relationship with the man who would assassinate John Lennon in 1980. Speaking to The U.S. Sun, Natalie likened Mark David, whom she first became ...

For many people, John Lennon's assassination in 1980 was ... exhaustive look at the motivations and mental state of the man who killed him. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News ...

EXCLUSIVE: Beatles expert David Stark has recalled the time he spoke with Mimi Smith just months after her nephew John Lennon ...

John Lennon was given an eerie prediction ... I just never thought of it as an island,” Mintz added. Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman outside his apartment in NYC on Dec. 8 ...

Beatle John Lennon met Mark Chapman – the man who was to kill him – twice ... if Lennon hadn't been killed that day, would the Beatles have eventually got back together to make more music?

The man convicted of killing John Lennon more than four decades ago ... Chapman, during a hearing that year, told the parole board that he killed Lennon because the musician “was very, very ...

John Lennon’s killer ... time that Chapman’s attempt at parole has been denied. Chapman shot and killed Lennon outside the musician’s Manhattan apartment on Dec. 8, 1980.