2001-2010Chris WilsonDocumentaryShort FilmUnited Kingdom

Chris Wilson – I Killed John Lennon (2005)

Review from BBC news:
Newly released audio tapes of interviews with John Lennon’s assassin reveal Mark Chapman’s self-confessed “compulsion” to kill the former Beatle.

“It was like a train, a runaway train, there was no stopping it,” Chapman told interviewers in a New York prison more than a decade ago.

The singer was shot by Chapman in New York on 8 December 1980. The tapes were recorded in the early 1990s by journalist Jack Jones, who wrote a book about Chapman and his crime. Chapman describes how he shot ex-Beatle Lennon five times in the back outside the Dakota apartment complex, adding “nothing could have stopped me”.”I was under total compulsion,” he says. “I’m thoroughly convinced in my conscience and in my heart that there was nothing I could do beyond that point to help myself, totally convinced of that.”

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980
Yoko Ono was with Lennon when he was shot outside their home
Chapman, who is now 50, said he had hoped his “identity would be found” by assassinating Lennon, who was 40 at the time.

“There was a successful man who kind of had the world on a chain, so to speak, and there I was, not even a link of that chain, just a person who had no personality. “And something in me just broke.”

Chapman, who was arrested at the scene, is currently serving a 20 years to life prison sentence for the murder. He was denied parole for a third time last year after the parole board cited the “extreme malicious intent” of his crime and said releasing him would undermine respect for the law. Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, has repeatedly lobbied to keep Chapman behind bars, saying he posed a continued threat to her family. Lennon fans organised an online petition calling for him to remain in prison for the rest of his life. Chapman may seek a new parole review in October 2006.

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