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Total shock!

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Absolutely shocked!

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Imagine all the people

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I could not believe it, I mean I was shocked. And then I'm sayoung to myself:7

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who did this? Why anyone would hurt John? Then it struck me I might have a picture of the killer.

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Don't let me down...

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On December 8th, 1980 I was assigned

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to the 20ths precinct. I was a patrolman in a radio car

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And I got a call that there was shots fired at 1 W.

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72nd street. There was a man pointing

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and he said "That's the man doing the shooting."

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And at that point we realized that this was for real.

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So I peeked in and saw a man with his hands up.

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So I threw this guy up against a wall and at that point

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Jose says to me he shot John Lennon. And I said "You what?"

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(shot)

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This is a work of art by John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono.

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I was thinking about all these windows in the world

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And there's so many windows that have bullet marks

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and bullet holes.

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So I wanted to make a symbolic gesture of one bullet hole

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And also you have to see it from the front. You have

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to see it from the back.

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When you see it from the front you're the shooter.

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When you see it from the back, you're the victim.

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And I did it and then I saw it. And I said " Oh my God! I saw that!"

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"That night"

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At 10:50 p.m. on Monday December the 8th, 1980, John Lennon was murdered

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At the Dakota Building in New York

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"Late this evening, one of the world's great entertainers

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and musicians, John Lennon of the Beatles.

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Was shot outside his New York home."

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The shockwaves of John Lennon's murder were felt

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around the world.

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Switched on the radio and 'Imagine' was playing. It was like a knife through your heart.

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You knew it was true.

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It was a shattering blow.

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Stunned. I just couldn't... I just saw him.

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Total shock. Absolute shock.

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"Imagine all the people"

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I could not believe it. I mean I was shocked and then I was

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saying to myself, "Who did this?"

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And why anyone would hurt John?

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And then it struck me that I might have a picture of the kiler.

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On January 1969, eleven years before John died, the

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Beatles held their last ever concert.

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On the roof of their office building on Saddle Row.

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It was the end of an era.

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John Lennon profoundly influenced a generation. And beyond.

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What do you know happened here? What do I know happened?

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The record label was run from here I suppose.

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I don't know much what happened here.

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Yeah. one last gig

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"Dont let me down."

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I see this house and I was in that queue.

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It was his voice, man. It makes me sad

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It makes me angry. It makes chilled. You know? It was

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his voice really.

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"Nobody ever loved me like she do."

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I thought, :right? I want to be in a band like that.

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why can't I make music like that

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"One two three four"

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John's whole life after he walked away from the Beatles

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was an escape from the insanity of Beatle-mania

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In 1971, he found his refuge with Yoko in New York

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the city in which he was, nine years later, to meet his fate

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(singing) New york city baby

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Yeah the last time I saw John we were in Madison

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Square Garden. He said, "I can walk down the street, walk through the park. People pass me-

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'Hi John' and keep on walking". He said "I love it."

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And I thought to myself, John's found peace at last.

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Singing: all we saying is give peace a chance.

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Peace had come at a price.

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John's political activism had a real effect on young people.

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And the President himself saw Lennon as a threat.

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Nixon was determined to deny John his green card

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There's a piece of tape somewhere of Nixon's

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henchmen saying "You know this guy could sway an election."

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This was preserved.

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And the first step was to kick him out.

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And they were very eager to do that.

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(Singing I would like..)

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It's August 1980, with his struggle for permanent residence long behind him,

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John is about to embark on a new musical venture

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with Yoko. They're snapped leaving the Dakota,

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on the first day of recording their album "Double Fantasy"

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They can have no idea it will be their last.

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Their coproducer is Jack Douglas.

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The idea of this album was a play, a dialogue between a man and his wife.

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A man who had been through the sixties. It was about

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"Well here we are. We're turning 40. And everythings ok. We can still do this.

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We can still have our voice. We managed to make it through

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all those terrible years. And now let's look to the future."

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(singing) Even after all these years.

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By September 1980, the album "Double Fantasy" is nearing completion.

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He listened to it very intently. And I saw this smile come on his face.

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And he yelled out, "Mother! Tell them we have a record!"

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Mother was John's nickname for his wife.

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He made me laugh all the time. I wasn't trying to make

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him laugh.

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But it seemed like he was laughing all the time about me.

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Just the fact that I'm saying something serious. And he said, "You're so tiny and you're saying these things."

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And you know, that made him feel funny I suppose.

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To his fans, John could be kind.

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In November 1980, the fan later to take the last picture of John alive, is granted his first photo opportunity.

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So he says, "Well let's take it now."

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"Let's get it the hell over with. You never know

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if we'll get another chance to do it."

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And this was 21 days before he gets murdered.

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So, I mean, I was like a kid under the Christmas tree

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on Christmas morning.

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And when I stood next to him, John put his right arm

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around my shoulder. And I couldn't believe

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that he pulled me to him. And when he did that. He

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gave me the idea and I held on to his fur collar.

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Cause I was holding it almost to make sure

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it wasn't a dream.

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Like, he wasn't going to disappear on me.

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The most iconic image of John Lennon in

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New York was taken by his friend, photographer

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Bob Gruen. Friday December the 5th, three days before he dies.

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John phones him

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He was in a good mood, very playful.

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The next day he asked me to come back, cause he

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had gotten a new jacket. He wanted some pictures of the new jacker, a very fancy Yamamoto jacket.

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and so we stayed up all night talking while they were working in the studio.

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And it wasn't until dawn that we were actually out on the street

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I think it was Saturday morning, December 6th

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and we took a bunch of pictures there and um

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and that was the last time I saw him.

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Later that Saturday, December 6th John gives a radio

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interview to BBC DJ Andy Peebles at the Hit Factory recording studio in Manhattan.

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There was my hero.

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I remember he put his arm around my shoulder and said "Thank you for coming."

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And I felt like saying, "What do you mean, thank you for coming?"

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(Recording)

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When I left England I still couldn't go on the street.

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It was still Carnaby Street and all that stuff was going on.

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We couldn't walk around the block, go to a restaurant, unless

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you wanted to do the business of the star going to the restaurant garbage.

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I can go right out this door now and go in a restaurant.

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You want to know how great that is?

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And towards the end of the interview, for some perverse reason

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it just flashed through my mind- ask him about security.

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And he came out with the classic quote, you know, "i can walk down the street

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and people say 'hi John, how are you, how's the baby?'"

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And I can see him now saying it with such conviction.

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He could never ever have dreamt

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what would ensue in 48 hours.

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Never ever have dreamt. Pfft.

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It's Monday the eighth of December, 1980.

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At 10:00 a.m. John leaves the Dakota building for his favorite

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local barber.

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He just wanted a haircut.

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I dunno maybe I have those hairs still.

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I used to keep his hair.

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Well the day started with the Liebowitz photograph.

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As the photographer Annie Liebowitz completes the photo shoot

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for Rolling Stone magazine and the cover that was

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to become world famous.

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John's fan, the amateur photographer Paul Garesh,

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arrives as usual.

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I got to the Dakota around 11:45 in the morning

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and when I got there, it was a nice mild day for December 8th.

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The only other person there was a guy standing

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with a long overcoat with a fur collar. And a fur hat.

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And he had a scarf on and he was holding "Double Fantasy"

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under his elbow

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And he says to me "Are you waiting for Lennon?"

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And I said, "Yeah"

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And he said, "My name's Mark. I'm from Hawaii."

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And I said, "I'm Paul. I'm from New Jersey."

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And he said "Oh. Do you work for him?"

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And I said "No"

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He said "I came all the way from Hawaii to get my album signed."

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So I said, "where are you staying while you're in the city?" And with that he seemed to change his whole demeanor. From like a dope to an aggressive person.

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And he said, "Why do you want to know?" And I said "go back where you were standing and leave me alone."

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12:40 p.m. the RKO radio team from San Francisco with radio host Dave Sholan arrived with expectation for the interview that lies ahead.

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We drive up to the Dakota which is a very impressive building. I mean it takes your breath away.

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and then we're ushered into this incredible space. This beautiful room where you take your shoes off which is a wonderful custom.

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And sit down on the couch and Yoko was there. And I look up to the ceiling and notice these clouds that are painted on Lovely.

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Meanwhile Paul Goresh goes inside hoping to pick up a copy of John's 1965 book A Spaniard in the woods, which he's left for John to sign.

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John was coming in from walk He said I will sign it for you today I promise. So I went back outside at my post.

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When I went back outside, the guy with the overcoat was there and he was alone on the other side of the yard.

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He came over to me and said "You know what, I want to apologize to you. I owe you an apology for the way I acted. You're in New York and you never know who you can trust these days."

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Monday December the 8th 1980, it's 1:25 p.m. John Lennon begins a 2 and a half hour interview with radio journalist Dave Sholan

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It's the last interview he will ever give.

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The door opens and John appears. Does this little jump in the air and proceeds to say "here I am folks. the show is ready to begin."

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He spreads his arms out and comes right over. He could not have been more upbeat.

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In the interview John ranges over his whole life story from his Liverpool years to his relationship with Yoko and their son Sean.

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He was born on Oct. 9th which I was. So we are almost like twins.

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So now I have more reason to stay healthy and bright.

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Around 1978-9, around then, he said "I feel very lonely. Because there's not a man that I can talk to. About being a house husband. They must have some kind of group session or something for those men.

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and I said " well. I suppose there should be. But we couldn't find one."

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and one day I saw John sitting in bed and crying and I said "what happened?"

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and he was reading a book called The First Sex and its a book about how women don't get credit at all for what they did in history.

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and he said I didn't know that we would do this to women. He has a very soft heart you know.

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Seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that John came from a background that was very macho.

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Very macho. Oh I was surprised. But you know, I think that was normal in those days for guys.

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This is the Liverpool pub where John used to meet his art school friends.

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One of these was Thelma Pickles. She was 16 and John 17.

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Well of a romance I suppose it was in a way. A youthful romance.

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John lived here in a house known as Mendips with his aunt Mimi who brought him up in the absence of his mother Julia.

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He got up to the kinds of things young people get up to He had a very pristine bedroom.

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He once asked me if I knew that making love expended the same amount of energy as going for a 5 mile run.Which I didn't know and I don't know to this day is true but I believed him.

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And then it became a euphemism.

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One evening there was a party at the art school where they were both students.

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He said "Come on. Let's go for a five mile run. So we went upstairs to the Art history classroom. When we got inside there were at least three other couples.

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I said "I'm not staying here and he absolutely whacked me one. I didn't speak to him after that. I didn't care who he was, how funny he was, how interesteing he was. I was not going to be hit by a lad."

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John's relationships with women were often controversial.

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By 1970 he had become one of the most famous people in the world.

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His early marriage with Cynthia with whom he had a son Julian, was over. But Yoko proved unpopular.

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The reason for the Beatles splitting up, with precious little evidence ascribed to her.

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The hostility directed toward Yoko didn't dimish when they moved to New York.

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I felt terrible about me but then I was feeling guilty about him. He was really getting it as well.

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Because his records were not selling too well either. And it was all because he was with me in a way.

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Because we were together almost 26 hours a day. And I think it was very unusual for John to be like that.

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And for any rocker, they kind of sneak out. There was none of that. Because he was worried that I might do it.

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In fact it was John's misbehavior with a woman at a party which in 1973 made Yoko realize they needed time apart.

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I call it my lost weekend. It lasted 18 months. When the feminine side of me died slightly. And she said "get the hell out".

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Give me 30 seconds to just be in this space.

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She suggested he leave New York and go to Los Angeles.

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That choice was partially based upon the fact that I was here and that somehow I might be able to look after him. Talk about a burden.

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In the first couple of weeks he did what people do in this city if you're a bachelor and by former profession you happen to be a Beatle.

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so i peeked in and saw a man with his hands up so i threw this guy up against the wall and at that point Jose says to me he shot John Lennon, and he says "you what?"

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This is a work of art by John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. I was thinking about all these windows in the world and there are so many windows that have, ah, bullet marks, you know, bullet holes.

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So, I wanted to make a symbolic gesture of on bullet hole and also you have to see it from the front and you have to see it from the back because when you see it from the front you're the shooter, when you see it from the back you're the victim.

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And I did it and then I saw it and I said "Oh my God" I saw that. That night.

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At 10:50 pm on Monday December the 8th, 1980 John Lennon was murdered at the Dakota building in New York.

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Late this evening one of the world's great entertainers and musicians John Lennon of the Beatles was shot outside of his New York home.

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The shockwaves of John Lennon's murder were heard around the world.

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I switched on the radio and "Imagine" was playing. You Know, that was like a knife through your heart, you know it was true.

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It was a shattering blow. Stunned.

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I just couldn't, I just sighed.

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Total shock.

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Absolute shock.

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[music] Imagine all the people...

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And I could not believe it. I, I mean I was shocked and I'm saying to myself "who did this, and why anyone would hurt John."

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Then, then it struck me that I might have a picture of the killer.

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[music]...and the world will live as one. [music ends]

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In January 1969, eleven years before John died, the Beatles held their last ever concert on the roof of their office building in Saville Row.

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It was the end of an era.

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John Lennon profoundly influenced a generation, and beyond.

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What do you know happened here?

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What do I know? The record thing was, the record label was wrong for me, wasn't it? I suppose.

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on december 8th, 1980 I was assigned to the 20th precint. I was a patrolman.

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in a radio car and I got a call that there were shots fired at 1 west 72nd street

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there was a man pointing and he said that's the man doing the shooting.

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and at that point we realized this was for real.

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so I peeked in and saw a man with his hands up.

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and at that point Jose says to me, "he shot John Lennon". and I said "you what"

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This is a work of art. By John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono.

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I was thinking about all these windows in the world and there are all these windows that have bullet marks and a bullet hole.

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So I wanted to make a symbolic gesture of one bullet hole for that. And also you have to see it from the front. You have to see it from the back.

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Because when you see it from the front, you're the shooter. When you see it from the back you're the victim.

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So I saw it and I said Oh my God. I saw that. That night. At 10:50 p.m. on monday Dec. 8, 1980 John Lennon was murdered at the Dakota building in New York.

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The shock waves of John Lennon's murder were felt around the world.

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We turned on the radio and Imagine was playing. It was like a knife through your heart. You knew it was true.

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It was a shattering blow.

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Stunned. I just saw it. An absolute shock.

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Imagine all the people. I could not believe it. I mean I was shocked and then I was saying to myslef, who did this and why anyone would hurt John. And then it struck me that I might have a picture of the killer

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In January 1969, 11 years before John Lennon died, the Beatles held their last ever concert. On the roof of their office building in South.

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It was an end of an era. John Lennon profoundly influenced a generation and beyond.

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What do you know happened? What do I know? The record label was wrong for them I suppose.

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I don't know much that happened there. One last gig.

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I can hear his voice man. It really makes me happy. Makes me sad. Makes me fucking angry. Makes me chilled. You know what I mean. It's his voice really.

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I want to be in a band like that. Why can't I make music like that.

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John's whole life after he left the Beatles was an escape from the insanity of Beatle mania. In 1971 he found his refuge with Yoko in New York. The city in which he was, 9 years later to meet his fate.

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the last time I saw John in Madison Square garden he said I can walk down the street, I can walk in the park and people say hi John.

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I keep on walking. Instead of hi John, blah blah, and he said I love it. And I thought to myself, John's found peace at last.

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Peace had come at a price. John's political activism had a real effect on young people and the president himself saw Lennon as a threat.

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Nixon was deterined to deny John his green card.

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Tehre is a piece of tape of Nixon's hedge men saying you know this guy could sway an election.

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This is preserved. and the first step was to kick him out. And they were very eager to do that.

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It's August 1980 with his struggle for permanent residency behind him John is about to embark on a new musical adventure with Yoko.

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they are snapped leaving the Dakota on the first day of recordeing their album Double Fantasy. They could have no idea it could be there last.

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Their co producers Jeff Douglas The idea of this album was a play. A dialoge between a man and his wife.

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A man who had been through the sixties. Well here we are were turning 40. We

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