Crosshairs

Episode 1 : John Lennon

John Lennon knows a thing or two about obsessive fandom. Ten years after the breakup of The Beatles, the
famed musician from Liverpool has to run the gauntlet of Fab Four devotees camped outside his Manhattan
apartment building on a daily basis. On December 8th 1980, Mark David Chapman is amongst them, but when
Lennon emerges, instead of producing an album for him to sign or a notepad for him to autograph, Chapman
draws a gun and shoots one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century four times in the back.
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With one squeeze of a trigger, or flash of a blade, the course of history can change forever.
In this series - we tell the stories of assassinations throughout history, plotting the path of the killer and victim, step by step, until they meet. We examine the fall out, following the assassination of world leaders. We reveal how cultural icons were targeted, and why. And we unpack stories which you may never have heard about before.
From What's the Story Sounds - and narrated by Jonathan Guy Lewis - Crosshairs is your weekly dose of crime and history, with new episodes every Thursday.