

Chapman also created a list of people he wanted to kill, and it included Johnny Carson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Lennon. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye and began identifying with the disillusioned main character, Holden Caulfield. Over the ensuing year, he grew increasingly unstable and homicidal. In 1979 Chapman married and became a security guard. Later that year he began working at the facility, first in maintenance and then in its print shop. In 1977 Chapman moved to Hawaii, where he attempted suicide and was taken to a hospital. While in high school, he became a born-again Christian, and after graduation, he worked for the YMCA and was a counselor for Vietnamese refugees in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. He received a sentence of 20 years to life and was repeatedly denied parole.Ĭhapman grew up in Decatur, Georgia, and as a teenager he developed an obsession with the Beatles, especially Lennon. Mark David Chapman, (born May 10, 1955, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), American criminal who fatally shot John Lennon on December 8, 1980. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.

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