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"John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles' controversial 1966 American tour, the band had feared...

A look at Mark David Chapman, who traveled from Hawaii to New York in order to kill ex-Beatle John Lennon by camping outside his apartment pretending to want an autograph.

On a raw, cold evening in early December of 1980, Mark David Chapman, a disturbed drifter from Hawaii, met ex-Beatle John Lennon. Moments later, the entire world was shocked senseless.... Based on chilling true events, an unhinged and angry man whose descent into madness led him to commit one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century. It is a psychological portrait like no other that will leave you stunned long after its nerve-shattering...

Presents the life, accomplishments, and assassination of John Lennon and the troubled history of his assassin, Mark David Chapman.