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(Tuesday, December 9, 1980; during the Murder of John Lennon) — News coverage and mourning around the world continued today followed late last night’s fatal shooting of English musician John Lennon, formerly of The Beatles, by a deranged fan.

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Many radio stations, from Rio de Janeiro to Belgrade, abandoned their schedules and switched to programs of continuous Beatle songs during the night. Record stores reported a run on Beatle albums when they opened this morning.

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Young people expressed their shock and sorrow in different ways.

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Lennon was shot four times by a deranged fan last night while entering the archway of The Dakota, his residence on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in New York City.

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While the entrance to The Dakota apartment building was blocked by hundreds of still hysterical weeping fans, former Beatle Ringo Starr and his finance, Barbara Bach, traveled from the Bahamas to comfort Ono and play with their five-year-old son, Sean.

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Lennon’s former writing partner, former Beatle Paul McCartney, was leaving a London recording studio when reporters asked him for his reaction; he responded, “Drag, isn’t it?”

When publicized, the response was widely criticized, and even McCartney himself regretted the seemingly callous remark. McCartney later said that he had intended no disrespect and simply was unable to articulate his feelings, given the shock and sadness he felt over Lennon’s murder.

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“After all we went through together, I had and still have great love and respect for him,” George Harrison said in a statement issued today in England. “I am shocked and stunned. To rob a life is the ultimate robbery in life. The perpetual encroachment on other people’s space is taken to the limit with the use of a gun. It is an outrage that people can take other people’s lives when they obviously haven’t got their own lives in order.”

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