Looking back at Lennon
http://www.caseyweeklycranbourne.com.au/news/national/national/general/looking-back-at-lennon/2019473.aspx
MATT BUCHANAN AND LEESHA MCKENNY
08 Dec, 2010
IT HAS been 30 years, today, since Dr Stephan Lynn was called back to
work at Roosevelt Hospital in New York to help with a gunshot victim.
''It wasn't until a nurse looked inside his wallet for identification
that we realised who it was,'' he told the New York Daily News. It
was John Lennon although in grey-faced death he looked nothing like
he had in life, the doctor recalled. The former Beatle had been shot
four times in the back by Mark David Chapman, to whom Lennon had
given an autograph at the same spot outside his Central Park West
apartment earlier that evening. Chapman eventually pleaded guilty to
the murder and is locked up in Attica Correctional Facility after his
sixth attempt at parole failed this year. His actions left the heart
of one of the greatest musical icons of the century in Lynn's hands,
who, the Daily News said, found it ''empty and still''. ''I …
massaged it to see if we could restore some cardiac function, to see
if we could get it beating again, to see if perhaps with giving him
some blood we could get something started,'' he said. ''Nothing
worked.'' Lennon would have been 70 this year, but Yoko Ono, with him
when he was shot, told The Times he had not liked to mark the passing
of time. The appeal of his music has not faded. The Australian
musician John Waters will commemorate the anniversary today (and his
own 62nd birthday), performing Lennon's songs which feature in his
show Looking Through A Glass Onion at Darling Harbour's Hard Rock Sydney shop.
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