... doorman screamed at Chapman, "Do you know what you've just done?- Chapman retorted, "I just shot John Lennon."" He dropped his handgun and sat down to read Catcher in the Rye. John was rushed to near-by St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, but after the bullets crushed his lung and he had lost eighty percent of his blood, he was pronounced dead on arrival. "Within an hour after ... the news of Lennon's death was broadcast, hundreds of mourners descended on East 72nd Street and Central Park West, lighting candles singing Lennon's songs and transforming the gates of the ... ...

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