ASSASINATION JOHN LENNON

               

 He was born in Liverpool on the date 9 October 1940. Both of his parents divorced when he was five. His father Alf abandoning the family and his mother Julia found her unable to raise him by her own. His mother left her with his aunt Mimi. He lost his mother, Julia in one car accident when he was seventeen.  Later, he went to art school but then he decided to quit the school and then he form a band that been given named as The Silver Beetles. He formed the band together with McCartney and Gorge Harrison.

        

In the year 1963, he got married to his current girlfriend that time Cynthia Powell. He had a son with Cynthia that they named as Julian. The Silver Beetles was then changed to become ‘The Beatles’. The bands become phenomena during the late sixties. He then divorced his wife and remarried to Yuko Ono. After he married to Yuko Ono, his wife was believed to control him and his band ‘The Beatles’. He later got separate from his band due to his wife attitude that too control.

             

His killer was his own fan. His name is Mark Chapman. He was a married man that had married Japanese American wife, Gloria. He was too obsess all about John Lennon and he was believed to have an unstable mental that led him to act to become the John Lennon killer. He rather to wait for John Lennon for hours just to get his signature.

           

John Lennon had a show at Dakota building. As he finished with his show, Mark Chapman was waiting for him outside the Dakota building. At around 10.50 p.m. John and Yuko arrived and Yuko Ono got out of the white limousine first. His killer than pulled out his pistol from his pocket and start to shot towards John Lennon. John Lennon tried to get away from the gun, but four of the five bullets hit him. Even though he managed to run to the gatekeeper’s station and he said to the guards “I’m shot”, before he fell his face down.

            

Meanwhile, Mark Chapman just stayed at the same place he shot John Lennon. He got out his book The Catcher in The Rye and then he started to read while waiting for the police to come and arrest him. When the police arrived, he put up his hands in the air and he said to the police “I acted alone”.  John Lennon was rushed in a police car to hospital but died soon after he arrived to the hospital.

Prepaid by: Nur Amira Binti Najmuddin