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
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