john lennon
Honolulu, HAWAII — Hours before his death, on Dec. 8, 1980, John Lennon looked his killer in the eyes and saw a pudgy, seemingly unremarkable man who’d shyly asked for an autograph.
Lennon had obliged.
Hours later, the former Beatle would be dead — fatally shot as he returned to his luxury...

![In his 1992 interview with Larry King, Chapman recalls standing outside Lennon’s apartment building, the Dakota, with his gun in his pocket. “You knew you were going to shoot him?” King asks Chapman. “Absolutely,” he responds. [photo: via HNN] Mark David Chapman](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/chapman.jpg?itok=LzReZVy6)