John Winston Lennon, a 40-year-old White man, spent December 8, 1980 moving through Manhattan with a sense of ordinary purpose�work, home, and the quiet routines of family life that had started to matter more than the chaos of fame. Earlier that day, outside the Dakota, he encountered Mark David Chapman, a man who blended into the city�s background noise until he stepped forward with something to sign. Lennon obligingly autographed a copy of Double Fantasy, then left with Yoko Ono for a late ses
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