The Man Who Shot John Lennon (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories 

It's pretty terrifying someone in the world, who you have no affiliation or relationship with, can target you and take your life at any moment.

I wish documentaries were still made like this. No sensationalism. No polarization.

Now he is "The catcher in the cell".

"No, let's go home because I want to see Sean before he goes to sleep." - John 😔

We can not blame a book, it's mental illness not a book. So sad a beautiful song writer and musician had his life cut short. I imagine how much more he could have given to the world.

I remember reading the book, "Catcher In The Rye", way back in 9th grade (1978), in English glass in America. I really liked the book, and my teacher thought every student would benefit from reading the book - except people like Chapman who took the book to a different level - murder.

Pathetic the extremes people go thinking they'll be a legend,,, in his own mind!!!!

Premeditated murder, he should never be released!!

I remember when this happened. Howard Cossell paused from Monday Night football to announce that he had been killed. People were not to thrilled about him like they once were. However after he was killed he became very popular once again.

All you need is love ,this song says alot about his thoughts

I was about to finish up my enlistment in the marine corps when we lost a musical genius. I'll never forget. R.I.P John Lennon.......

Rest in peace John Lennon. Gone but never forgotten. 💗

I was utterly devasted when John was murdered.

This is a good documentary. After I finished watching it I realized just how lucky I was to have venerated the stories of brave, tough, fiercely independent, resilient frontiersmen who took an extremely realistic approach to life, one reinforced every hour of the day by the enormously exhilarating business of outdoor survival. You can't be crazy and live off the land at the same time. I found great role models in the books I read. Mark David Chapman had been unstable and delusional for most of his life (before the murder). These problems were intensified by repeated failure and a terrible role model; Holden Caufield. I read The Catcher In The Rye. I recognized the book's literary value by I was disgusted by Holden Caufield's emotional instability and weakness. John David Chapman emulated Caufield because he was just as crazy as he was.

At the heart of all such attacks is a person unable to form a personal identity, feeling themselves a "no one", desparately, frantically determined to be a "someone".

John Lennon lived and died before I was born. He's my favourite singer of all time.. May he RIP

And yet, nearly 41 years later, it still doesn't seem real. I had bought a copy of Double Fantasy only two days prior. It has been on my wall in a frame for many years. John's grand finale. x

I remember this all too well. I remember thinking to myself: "All I know is - 'I'm sure glad that I'm not an American in London right now''; this whole thing brought about a profound social depression. There was something about John's loss that signified a turning point - a cultural turning point, - like saying goodbye to an old friend - and registering an anxiety about where the world was going, at the same time. I read The Catcher... when I was young. It affected me more than I feel comfortable exposing.

“What is a drug for many people is a drug for others, Chapman is one of those others.” Boy, this quote certainly still resonates today.

I was 6. I still remember that day when it came on the news.

The bigger tragedy is what didn't happen: In 1977, Chapman moved to Hawaii, where he attempted suicide by carbon monoxide asphyxiation. He connected a hose to his car's exhaust pipe, but the hose melted and the attempt failed.

If only that fisherman had not found Chatman’s car on that beach,, how different things would have turned out.

why are there people in these comments trying to point out john's flaws? god, read the room. most lennon/beatles fans don't think of him as a perfect person, he definitely wasn't, but bringing up someone's mistakes and shortcomings in the comment section of a video about their murderer is maybe not appropriate? john dedicated much of his life to peace and love after realizing his problems. what more could you ask of someone who has made mistakes in their past? if someone does something wrong, do you want them to just disappear? or die? because, again - what more could someone do than change their ways and become a better person? this negative point of view about lennon is especially unfair because a lot of anti-john folks are extremely supportive of modern artists and musicians who have done MUCH worse things in their life than john ever did. i'm so tired of this dialogue surrounding him, please stop trying to ruin his image and make him out to be something that he wasn't.

He destroyed the chance of any future Beatles reunions 😥

The catcher in the rye ? Hmm! the title has always made me visualize a baseball player in a wheat field. John's gone people like him are dwindling away ! the sixties and seventies are fading away. peace and love yeah right . These times makes me miss a good old fashioned dope smokin hippie

Listening to John Lennon talk is far far more enlightening than listening to Mark David Chapman talk, for real!!

What happened to him? That always troubles me that people start out as babies and can end up as broken.

Yoko Ono:"John was not ready to die."

Perfect timing while Disney+ have documentary about The Beatles!

"Is he a screwball? " Excellent journalist. 🙄

Senseless killing, he just kill the man just to be famous, nothing more

Don't blame the paperback writer, the wizard of Oz or Hans Christian Andersen. Distorted brains always will find something to feed their unrest, if it isn't a particular book, it will be a movie or a music album with or without "backward Satanic messages"... (always wondered how these guys who found such messages went at work to listen to a backward playing record, but well, that's another story... I'm more "afraid" of hidden persuaders that make people buy more Coke or Marlboro.

poor lennon. trusting with his fans. so sad.

There are very few friends I would ever tell “EVER” so I’ll just tell the whole world on this video ,

Such a crazy story. I'm too young to really appreciate it and what the 60s were like as I was born late 80s.

Didnt know this....learning something from his movie

It’s really scary how he seems quite sane and aware of what he’s about to do and tries to persuade himself from doing it, but ends up still going through with it in the end .. Depression seems to have played a big role in what he did, and with so many of us today suffering from depression, it’s scary to think that you might lost it like that someday ..

I was ten when Lennon was murdered. I was in my room and my mom came in and told me that John Lennon had just been killed. Although I was a Beatles fan I didnt recognize the name, as I only knew the faces of the singers not their names (I was just a young boy. I loved the films Yellow Submarine and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). But I soon made the connection as to who John Lennon was (the glasses one from Yellow Submarine).

『Imagine 』 Indeed, he was a dreamer, but I want his dream will come true someday ✨ God bless him and Yoko Ono and his family.

It seems to me, he was jealous and wanted to be like the Beatles and loved by everyone like John Lennon. That is what I took from this monster's conversation piece.

Man...imagine the fish downstream from all that dope being flushed at church...

He killed a wonderful peaceful man and I can imagine how much wonderful music he would have made by now so terrible rest in peace John

Just have to mention the stark contrast between Mark and his ex, earlier when friends mentioned how Mark dismissed anyone who somehow made Mark detest them, he stated they are dead. Meanwhile, his ex, whom they haven’t had any romantic relationship for a while before things escalated, she specifically said Mark to her wasn’t dead, but gone. She had the empathy to search for some part of Mark that she once loved, while Mark would find an excuse to eliminate anyone who he deemed unworthy of a second chance. Thought how interesting that contrast was between the two.

I remember that night like it was yesterday.

😱😱 hollow point bullets. . . Thats kind that blow huge holes. Poor John I bet his last minutes were agony, he had to feel the 1st 3 more

RIP John Lennon

Imagine his suicide attempt having been successful, imagine John still being with us. Imagine ❤

This murder was a tragic wrong-doing, but bizarre indeed that how many fans suicided for but the reason that he died

It's the little things that are crazy. If that fisher man had never intervened in the suicide, John Lennon may still be alive

47:57 Stated perfectly and here we are in 2022. Still holds true.

Happy Christmas! War is over if you want it! ~John Lennon

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea !" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"

2:17-2:25. Are those actual photos from the crime scene? They're almost impossible to find anywhere. Especially the last one. The room where he collapsed.

What a coward.

Unfortunately, in the US tiny men with tiny hands have access to guns

Peace brother

There has never been a more tragic loss in music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and really grew to love John's solo work. Double fantasy is an amazing album. I feel a loss I can't explain growing up in a time when he was not alive.

intellectual genius with a heart full of soul our JOHN LENNON..

I had a dream the night before that I knocked on their door, i was invited in and we sat at a white table, EVERYTHING was bright white. Sean rode around on his little bike. A huge bulletin board on the wall and we spent hours as John and Yoko gave a story about napkins, match etc.. we had tea. They walked me we gave nice hugs and Peace, see you soon. I woke up and went right to the kitchen and told my Mom. '"I just had the best as if i was there dream about an afternoon at John Lennon's Apartment at the Dakota, how cool is that Mommy?" I was high on it all day, told friends, even my mailman! Around 10:45 that dream turned into a nightmare...😪

I wish people would stop making this clown (chapman) famous by drawing attention to him.

What year did this documentary come out? The clothes that people in this video are wearing look like late 80s to early 90s maybe?

I just bought the book he keeps talking about im actually super curious.

We miss you John. Fly high. 🙏❤

That’s whistle is really fkn annoying, especially in headphones. Editors give your head a shake

You know what they say. When life gives you Lennons, you make Swiss cheese.

Imagine that

butters did it

Jerk of all jerks. (PMcC, 1980)

Senseless killing

Chapman's voice sounds just like Jones voice from Jones Town.

On the whole, British television does a much better job producing a news documentaries than does American television.* They are sober, thoughtful, disinterested (look up the definition before presuming you know what that means) and solid journalism. I especially appreciate the context in which it places this tragic event, helping the viewer to understand that Lebanon’s assassination was one in a series of many such killings that were and continue to be part of American society in a way that they are not in any other modern, developed democracy. (*And I’m certainly NOT including such ridiculous staged “news” outlets as Fox News or their ilk, which even the courts have ruled is really an entertainment outlet, not news, nor the other Murdoch-owned news organs such as the tabloid newspapers.)

All I can say ,in this spher of mortal life,we can't chose how we died or past away,just because life and death is packaged, every one must past nobody's failed,its part of our existence ,John death,we can consider as phenomenal,I can't blame champman or his gun,I mean everything or event have purpose, phenomenal

bad audio. i cant hear

John n Yoko just did that Rolling Stones Magazine Cover where John was Naked Cradling Yoko's Dressed body.......Annie Lebovitz did the Photography, and talked about it in the "Rolling Stones 50 years" ...That was the last Professional photograph of JL before his murder...

What a sad, sad waste. What on earth was he trying to achieve? Total waste. (Must say, I got a chuckle when that reporter asked, "is he a screwball?!" Is that the technical language?)

He's insane. We lost a famous musician 😞

I guess that's what I'm reading next month.

Why did you hashtag this as a short? It isn't.

The book The catcher and the Rye itself isn’t the problem, it’s certain peoples demented twisted mind like Chapmin.

CHAPMAN looks like that serial killer guy on HAWAII FIVE O that went after anybody mean to JUDY MOON!!!! Remember that episode and the actor playing the mixed up killer was ELLIOT STREET who did a few tv series guest roles in the early and mid 1970s☆☆☆☆

Getting word out on book that every jr. high school student I knew had to read. I didn't get it.

Be in peace John Lennon. People still love you to even now.

Harrison and Lennon. Why them? Don't get wrong. I'm not insinuating, that anyone should have taken their place. But what a lose.

Mark Chapman is an absolute MONSTER for killing poor John Lennon !!!!! just as bad as the disgusting CHILD MOLESTERS out there !!!!!! :( Rest in peace John you are very much loved by everybody GOD BLESS AMEN

Rock & Roll made him rebel. Religion made him kill. You tell me which one is worse?

Sounds like sirhan sirhan ??

"#shorts" on an hour long video lmfao

john lennon changed the world but chapman changed john lennon ;)

Lennon forever forever Lennon

My hero

They all love me too

Worlds most hated criminal?

Hard to understand, how it went from music and culture to extreme violence, resulting in tragedy. Individuals with mental issues should be kept away, especially when the signs are noticeable.

I grew up with The Beatles. I saw them twice in San Francisco. I do remember when John said, we are more popular than Jesus Christ. Many Christians made it out to be worse than it was. I didn't care, I was 14 at the time.

It's John Lennon comment regarding Jesus that might infuriated him, but taking law into his own hands can't be justified.

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I tried reading catcher in the rye it was so boring and no storyline

Me gustan mucho estos documentales pero debido a que no son subtitulado no puedo entenderlo solo me sale el subtítulo en inglés 🙄🤗

The number of sheep and three letter agency bots in this comment section is nauseating.

Acredito que ele tenha algum problema mental, tem que ficar preso e não sair jamais, o que ele fez foi terrível!! Matar um inocente