On this day John Lennon, musician, political activist, and one of the founding members of the pop group The Beatles, was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, outside his Manhattan flat in New York. Hit twice in the back and twice in the shoulder at close range, Lennon was rushed in a police car to the emergency room of Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:15 p.m. The assassination took place just three weeks after the release of the album “Double Fantasy”, Lennon’s comeback to music after spending five years at home bringing up his son, Sean. John Lennon’s death triggered an outpouring of grief on an unprecedented scale throughout the world.
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