303 “I’m ready to start all over again and get this thing going”: Heller and Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot.”

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305 “your car hasn’t shown up yet”: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 272.

305 “hitch a ride with us”: Badman, The Beatles Diary, 272.

305 pen won’t write: Daniel B. Schneider, “F.Y.I.,” New York Times, August 13, 2000.

305 “John Lennon, 1980”: Schneider, “F.Y.I.”

305 “a dream he’s had several times”: Bill Hoffman, “Lennon Killer’s Wild Dreams About Yoko,” New York Post, September 27, 2000.

305 “Do you want anything else?”: “A Look Back at Mark David Chapman in His Own Words,” Larry King Live, CNN.com, September 30, 2000.

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306 “Double Fantasy has just gone gold!”: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 272.

306 “John, are you all right?” CNN Special Report: Killing John Lennon, CNN.com, December 8, 2015.

306 “I think you just cut your first number one!” “Walking on Thin Ice by Yoko Ono,” Songfacts.com.

307 “Should we stop at Wolf’s for a hamburger?”: Billy Heller and Michael Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot,” New York Post, December 4, 2005.

307 “I want to go home and kiss Sean good night”: Badman, The Beatles Diary, 272.

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308 security guard’s name is Jose Perdomo: 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), 46.

308 Jose, a Cuban refugee: Amy Andrews, “CIA Link to John Lennon Death Possible Says New Documentary,” IrishCentral.com, December 4, 2010.

309 Dakota residents like Lauren Bacall and Leonard Bernstein: Michael W. Freeman, “Book Relates Interesting History of the Dakota in N.Y.,” The Ledger (Florida), January 3, 2008.

309 The Wizard of Oz photograph he left behind on the hotel-room dresser: James R. Gaines, “Mark Chapman: The Man Who Shot John Lennon,” People, February 23, 1987.

310 in a combat stance: Patrick Doyle, Robert Lane, and Hugh Bracken, “Legendary Beatles Singer Shot Dead by Mark David Chapman,” Daily News (New York), December 9, 1980.

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.