Grab a beer and join us as we pick up in December 1980. We start with Mark David Chapman’s second trip to New York, checking into the Y, staking out the Dakota, meeting Jude and Jerry, and getting John Lennon’s autograph. Then the shooting at 10:52 p.m., the rush to Roosevelt Hospital, and the arrest at the gate, with Mark sitting with The Catcher in the Rye, telling officers “I acted alone.”

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