When the 60’s Bloomed
By Bob Herbert
“He committed a deliberate, premeditated execution of John Lennon and acted in a cool, calm and calculated manner in killing Mr. Lennon by shooting him several times with a .38-caliber pistol.”
- Kim Hogrefe, assistant Manhattan district attorney.
John Lennon would have turned 65 on Oct. 9. His widow, Yoko Ono, is 72. Their son, Sean, is 30. Lennon’s assassin, Mark David Chapman, is 50.
It’s astonishing how often, given a choice between creativity and murder, our species chooses the latter. Eras may change, but the mayhem remains the same.
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