Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quantify how much a John Lennon or a Martin Luther King is worth," Anderson added...
...court. In Washington, John Warnock Hinckley Jr., 26, pleaded not guilty to the attempted assassination of President Reagan. His lawyers were granted 30 days to plan a defense. In New York, Mark David Chapman, 26, pleaded guilty and was given 20 years to life for the murder of John Lennon...
Chapman, the son of an Atlanta bank-loan collector, liked working with children, played in a high school band and idolized Lennon. He left his job as a Honolulu security guard and flew to New York with money borrowed from his Japanese wife. After getting Lennon's autograph, he killed his hero with four hollow .38-cal. bullets. He was arrested moments later, carrying a copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher...
...received the word from God, he said, and even repeated arguments from his defense lawyers could not dissuade him. So Mark David Chapman, 26, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom last week to the Dec. 8 murder of John Lennon. When Assistant District Attorney Allen Sullivan asked the defendant why he had used especially destructive hollow-point bullets in the shooting, Chapman laconically replied, "To ensure Lennon's death...
After the hearing, Sullivan revealed that Chapman had a "hit list" of other celebrities he had considered killing if he could not get to Lennon. The list reportedly included Johnny Carson and Jacqueline Onassis. "He did not intend to kill all of them," said Defense Attorney Jonathan Marks. "In the event he could not find A, he would kill B. He just intended to kill somebody...