320 “Here’s my press card”: Heller and Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot,” New York Post, December 4, 2005.

320 “Yoko Ono in a full-length fur coat on the arm of a police officer”: Associated Press, “Lennon’s Death Lingers for Those Who Were There,” Today.com, December 5, 2005.

320 “Neil, I think John Lennon’s been shot”: Heller and Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot.”

320 “All My Loving” plays over the hospital sound system: Daniel Bates, “John Lennon’s Killer Mark Chapman Told Cops: ‘Sorry for Inconveniencing You’ When They Arrived at the Scene,” Daily Mail, December 6, 2015.

321 “totally ineffective”: Heller and Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot.”

321 “I couldn’t shake the feeling that we had failed this great man”: Dr. David Halleran, interview by the authors, 2019.

321 “all of the major blood vessels leaving the heart were simply destroyed”: Heller and Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot.”

321 “He can’t be dead, he was just alive”: Heller and Kane, “We Were There on the Awful Night John Lennon Was Shot.”

321 “how much John Lennon affected the rest of the world”: Tracy Connor, “How They Got Involved on a Fateful Night,” New York Post, December 3, 2000.

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322 “John Lennon has been shot in front of his apartment building”: “Enterprise Journalism Release—December 2, 2010,” ESPN Press Room, December 2, 2010.

322 “makes rock concerts look like tea parties”: Amy Davidson Sorkin, “John Lennon: ‘It Makes Rock Concerts Look Like Tea Parties,’” The New Yorker, December 8. 2010.

323 “Remember this is just a football game, no matter who wins or loses”: Sorkin, “John Lennon.”

323 “There was a lot of crime in that area back in those days, and gunfire wasn’t uncommon”: Geraldo Rivera, interview by the authors, 2019.

323 “The most tragic aspect of this terrible thing is the ironic thing”: Ray Rossi, “Watch: Do You Remember Where You Were When John Lennon Died?,” New Jersey 101.5, December 8, 2014.

324 “Attempting to put John’s life into context in real time was very challenging and extremely emotional”: Geraldo Rivera, interview by the authors, 2019.

324 Phillip Michael, a maintenance man: Daniel B. Schneider, “F.Y.I.,” New York Times, August 13, 2000.

325 “It’s the most valuable artifact in rock and roll history”: Megan Cerullo, “‘Double Fantasy’ Album Signed by John Lennon for Mark Chapman Up for Sale for $1.5M,” Daily News (New York), July 16, 2017.

325 “I was just with him”: Ken Sharp, Starting Over: The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy (New York: Gallery, 2010), quoted in interview with Amanda Flinner, “80s Video Director Jay Dubin,” Songfacts.com, December 17, 2014.

325 wipes clean the session tapes dated December 8: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 273.

326 “The shock is too great!”: Albert Goldman, “John and Yoko’s Troubled Road Part II,” People, August 22, 1988.

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327 banging her head: Daniel Bates, “John Lennon’s Killer Mark Chapman Told Cops: ‘Sorry for Inconveniencing You’ When They Arrived at the Scene,” Daily Mail, December 6, 2015.