310 At close range, Mark fires: Doyle, Lane, and Bracken, “Legendary Beatles Singer Shot Dead by Mark David Chapman.”

310 “Help him, help him”: Doyle, Lane, and Bracken, “Legendary Beatles Singer Shot Dead by Mark David Chapman.”

310 “He’s been shot, he’s been shot”: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 272.

310 grabs his arm—the one holding the gun: Gaines, “Mark Chapman.”

310 kicks it away: Gaines, “Mark Chapman.”

311 get outta here: Gaines, “Mark Chapman.”

311 pulls out his paperback copy of The Catcher in the Rye: Dave Rosenthal, “Mark David Chapman—Lennon’s Killer and ‘Catcher in the Rye,’ Up for Parole,” Baltimore Sun, July 28, 2010.

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312 “Shots fired, 1 West 72nd Street”: Billy Heller and Michael Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot,” New York Post, December 4, 2005.

312 “I heard the gunshots, the first I’d ever heard”: “Where We Were When John Lennon Was Killed,” New York Times, December 8, 2010.

313 James Taylor hears gunfire: James Lachno, “James Taylor: Five Things You Never Knew,” The Telegraph, June 8, 2011.

313 “He shot John Lennon!”: Heller and Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot.”

313 “Don’t hurt me”: Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Killed John Lennon (New York: Villard Books, 1992), 47.

313 Porter Jay Hastings is ready to apply a tourniquet to John’s wounds: Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (New York: Ecco, 2008), 806.

313 “It’s okay, John, you’ll be all right”: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 272.

313 “Cuff him, Steve”: Badman, The Beatles Diary, 272.

313 “I acted alone”: Jones, Let Me Take You Down, 47.

314 he’s met the wounded man once before: Larry McShane, “The Day ‘Love’ Died: December 8th Marks 35th Grim Anniversary of John Lennon’s Murder,” Daily News (New York), December 5, 2015.

314 “Like weightlifters”: McShane, “The Day ‘Love’ Died.”

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315 The police officers’ names are Spiro and Cullen: Associated Press, “Lennon’s Death Lingers for Those Who Were There,” Today.com, December 5, 2005.

315 “Nobody’s gonna hurt you”: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 272.

315 Cullen reaches down and grabs The Catcher in the Rye from the pavement: Associated Press, “Lennon’s Death Lingers for Those Who Were There.”

316 She stares at him through the glass: Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Killed John Lennon (New York: Villard Books, 1992), 48.

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317 across the back seat: Vicki Sheff, “The Day the Music Died,” People, December 10, 1990.

317 “Are you John Lennon?”: Jimmy Breslin, “The Day John Lennon Died: Jimmy Breslin Writes Iconic Tale of NYPD Cops Who Drove the Dying Beatles Star to the Hospital,” Daily News (New York), originally published December 9, 1980.