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.

317 “expecting to see an ambulance pulling in”: Dr. David Halleran, interview by the authors, 2019.

318 room 115: Alex Dunbar, “Doctor’s Story of Night He Tried to Save John Lennon Inspires Movie,” CNYCentral.com, November 19, 2015.

318 “Then we cut the clothes off and opened his chest”: Dunbar, “Doctor’s Story of Night He Tried to Save John Lennon Inspires Movie.”

318 “Four entry wounds over his left chest, three exit wounds”: Dunbar, “Doctor’s Story of Night He Tried to Save John Lennon Inspires Movie.”

318 “The patient didn’t come in dead; he came in mortally wounded”: Dr. David Halleran, interview by the authors, 2019.

318 “It can’t be”: Dunbar, “Doctor’s Story of Night He Tried to Save John Lennon Inspires Movie.”

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319 TV producer Alan Weiss: Billy Heller and Michael Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot,” New York Post, December 4, 2005.

319 “My ears are still ringing from the impact”: “Enterprise Journalism Release—December 2, 2010,” ESPN Press Room, December 2, 2010.

319 “At first, I didn’t believe it”: Alan Weiss, interview by the authors, 2019.

319 my favorite Beatle: “The Murder of John Lennon,” Crimes of the Century, CNN.com, January 25, 2014.