327 “Do you realize what you just did?”: Bates, “John Lennon’s Killer Mark Chapman.”

328 “Chapman shot John Lennon because he wanted his moment of glory in the sun”: “The Murder of John Lennon,” Crimes of the Century, CNN.com, January 25, 2014.

328 “another Jack Ruby”: Paula Schwed, “Lennon Slain in New York,” UPI.com, December 9, 1980.

328 “premeditated execution”: Schwed, “Lennon Slain in New York.”

328 “We felt he was criminally responsible”: “The Murder of John Lennon.”

328 “borrowed a substantial sum of money—of which $2,000 was found on him”: Schwed, “Lennon Slain in New York.”

328 “finish the job Chapman started. I’m going to get Yoko Ono”: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 274.

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329 “That was like a really big shock in most people’s lives, a bit like Kennedy”: Michael Rothman, “Paul McCartney Remembers How He Found Out John Lennon Had Died,” ABC News, December 8, 2014.

329 “shattered and stunned”: Lily Rothman, “How the World Reacted to John Lennon’s Death 35 Years Ago,” Time, December 8, 2015.

329 “to rob life is the ultimate robbery”: Tim Riley, Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music—The Definitive Life (New York: Hyperion, 2011), 677.

330 “Something’s happened to John”: Tom Skinner, “Ringo Starr on Finding Out About John Lennon’s Death: ‘I Didn’t Know What to Do,’” NME, October 30, 2019.

330 “Cyn, I’m so sorry, John’s dead”: Cynthia Lennon, John: A Biography, (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005), 7.

330 Keep the news from Julian: Lennon, John, 8.

330 Spitting image of his father: Lennon, John, 268.

330 “Don’t run from them, it will just make it more difficult”: Riley, Lennon, 676.

330 “I want to do what I can to help”: Riley, Lennon, 676.

330 “play with Sean”: Skinner, “Ringo Starr on Finding Out About John Lennon’s Death.”

331 Someone’s dead: Elton John, Me (New York: Henry Holt, 2019), 175.

331 “I couldn’t believe it”: John, Me, 175.

332 hundreds of mourners: Lennon, John, 269.

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332 reads his copy of The Catcher in the Rye: Katharine Shaffer, Stuart Marques, and Don Singleton, “Mark David Chapman Is Sentenced to 20 Years to Life in Prison in 1981 for Killing John Lennon,” New York Daily News, August 23, 2015.

332 still smells pleasantly of gunpowder: James R. Gaines, “Mark David Chapman Part III: The Killer Takes His Fall,” People, March 9, 1987.

332 a bulletproof vest: James R. Gaines, “Mark Chapman: The Man Who Shot John Lennon,” People, February 23, 1987.

332 a “loner” who “had a screw loose”: Rick Hampson, “John Lennon Shot 35 Years Ago: Suspect Described as ‘Screwball’ with No Motive,” Associated Press, December 8, 2015.

332 They put a jacket over his head and lead him outside: Hampson, “John Lennon Shot 35 Years Ago.”

333 Everyone on the planet now knows who he is: CNN Special Report: Killing John Lennon, CNN.com, December 8, 2015.

333 soundproof pen: Gaines, “Mark David Chapman Part III.”

333 His name is Herbert Adlerberg: Gaines, “Mark David Chapman Part III.”

333 Assistant district attorney Kim Hogrefe: CNN Special Report: Killing John Lennon.

333 “He committed a deliberate, premeditated execution of John Lennon”: E. R. Shipp, “Chapman, in a Closed Courtroom, Pleads Guilty to Killing of Lennon,” New York Times, June 23, 1981.