334 Judge Martin Rettinger: Mike Sager and Joyce Wadler, “A Confused Person,” Washington Post, December 11, 1980.

334 Mark is sent to Bellevue Hospital for psychological examination: Associated Press, “Lennon’s Death,” CBS News, December 11, 1980.

334 Dr. Naomi Goldstein: Gaines, “Mark David Chapman Part III.”

334 Adlerberg has received many death threats: Art Harris, “Memories of Chapman,” Washington Post, December 12, 1980.

334 Jonathan Marks: Gaines, “Mark Chapman.”

334 lusts for the limelight: Gaines, “Mark Chapman.”

334 The prison is worried about snipers: Gaines, “Mark Chapman.”

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335 MacDougall has taken charge of John’s remains: Albert Goldman, “John and Yoko’s Troubled Road Part II,” People, August 22, 1988.

335 “the greatest rock musician in the world”: Goldman, “John and Yoko’s Troubled Road Part II.”

335 “Why‘s Julian here? Where‘s Dad?”: Cynthia Lennon, John: A Biography, (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005), 270.

336 “Your dad’s dead”: David Fricke, “Sean Lennon on His Father, Yoko Ono, and His Own Musical Career,” Rolling Stone, June 11, 1998.”

336 “There is no funeral for John”: “Remember Love,” University Staff Shared Governance, University of Wisconsin at Madison, ous.wisc.edu, December 8, 2017.

336 scatters his ashes in a spot in Central Park: Goldman, “John and Yoko’s Troubled Road Part II.”

336 “Maybe he is watching me from above”: Lynn Van Matre, “Don’t Ask Julian About Dad: It’s All on the Video,” Chicago Tribune, December 8, 1985.

336 one hundred thousand people stand with their heads bowed: Joyce Wadler, “A Farewell,” Washington Post, December 15, 1980.

336 The hand-lettered sign pleads, WHY?: Jeff Giles, “The Day Thousands Honored John Lennon with a Silent Vigil,” UltimateClassicRock.com, December 14, 2015.

336 “I guess when you die you become much more bigger because you’re part of everything”: Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970–2001 (London: Omnibus Press, 2001), 274.

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337 He has never slept better in his entire life: James R. Gaines, “Mark David Chapman Part III: The Killer Takes His Fall,” People, March 9, 1987.

337 “If he was obsessed with anything, it was bringing attention to himself”: “The Murder of John Lennon,” Crimes of the Century, CNN.com, January 25, 2014.

338 an epiphany one night while sitting in a lounge at Rikers Island: Gaines, “Mark David Chapman Part III.”

338 “And then it hit me, like a joyful thing, that I was called out for a special purpose”: Gaines, “Mark David Chapman Part III.”

338 “stimulate the reading of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye”: Paul L. Montgomery, “Lennon Murder Suspect Preparing Insanity Defense,” New York Times, February 9, 1981.

338 He shares his promotional plans with Bantam, the publisher of the paperback edition: Gaines, “Mark David Chapman Part III.”

338 “Everyone will read The Catcher in the Rye”: Gaines, “Mark David Chapman Part III.”

338 tears up his copy of The Catcher in the Rye: Gaines, “Mark David Chapman Part III.”

339 he’s possessed by a demon: Gaines, “Mark David Chapman Part III.”

339 “picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all”: 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.