Thursday, December 9, 2010

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John Lennon's Death: 30 Years Later

The news of John Lennon’s death shocked the world 30-years-ago today.

The legendary Beatle was shot twice in the back outside of his apartment building in New York on Dec. 8, 1980 by Mark David Chapman. He and wife, Yoko Ono had just come home from the recording studio. He was was 40 years old.


30 years in prison: Mark Chapman after his arrest in 1980, and right, a recently-released prison photograph

Gloria Chapman is a 59-year-old woman hospital worker who lives with two women in a quiet town on the outskirts of Honolulu.

There is little extraordinary about this Japanese-American woman's life, but for one thing - each year she flies to New York to enjoy a conjugal visit with her jailed husband, a convicted killer.

That man is Mark Chapman, the man who murdered John Lennon in cold blood 30 years ago today.


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