Nobody quote of the week
“I felt that by killing John Lennon, I would become somebody, and instead of that I became a murderer, and murderers are not somebodies.”
– John Lennon’s murderer Mark David Chapman during his parole hearing earlier this month.
Chapman revealed during the hearing, which was released to the media on Thursday after his parole was denied, that he also considered shooting Johnny Carson or Elizabeth Taylor, but former Beatle John Lennon was “top of the list.”
Chapman shot and killed John Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980 across from Central Park outside his apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He has served almost 30 years in prison with his next scheduled parole hearing (number 7) scheduled for 2012.
You can download a pdf file of the complete parole hearing at The Smoking Gun.
