29 years ago.
I imagine that this hand carved tribute to him along the wall of Prospect Park at 11th Street took just about all night long. I hope the carver was finally able to get over the loss that they felt, and boy oh boy, that carving must have been just about the most cathartic experience ever for them.
Chapman was a patsy set up for the hit by the CIA’s MK-Ultra program. Why? Because Lennon was due to win his U.S. citizenship a few months later, and they needed to eliminate the chance that Lennon would have joined the opposition to their murderous counterrevolutionary wars in Central America (esp. Nicaragua and El Salvador), just getting underway as Reagan’s transition team was taking power in December 1980. Think that’s nuts? Read _Who Killed John Lennon?_ by Fenton Bresler, and _The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: the CIA and Mind Control_ by John Marks. And visit ciakilledlennon.blogspot.com