chapman will spend the next two days waiting for john lennon. >> who was mark david chapman? n december 8, 1980, mark david chapman was a very confuses person, he was literally living inside of a paper back novel, j.d. salinger's "the catcher and the rye." and he was vacillating between suicide and taking a taxi back and forth to hawaii and back and forth between killing an icon. >> and then on the morning of december 8th, he calls his wife. then he takes out the bible from his suitcase and turns to the new testament book of john and writes the words "lennon the gospel according to john." and then at 8:00 a.m., he heads back to the dakota. >> i had a premonition that this is the last time i would leave my hotel room. i hadn't seen him up to that point, that's what makes it interesting, i wasn't sure he was in the building. and then i left the hotel room, bought a copy of "the catcher and the rye" and i wrote underneath it signed it and wrote "this is my statement." >> that morning, chapman meets another photographer named paul gorish. paul gorish had come to know lennon person

. >> the suspect is identified as mark david chapman. >> hinckley idolized lennon.t new year's eve he locks himself in his room at his parents' house. drinks peach brandy. plays his guitar and wallows in his own misery. ♪ sometime during the night, hinckley writes in his diary, john lennon is dead. forget it. it's just going to be insanity. i still think about jodie all the time. anything i might do in 1981 would be solely for jodie foster's sake. i want to tell the world that i love her. >>> valentine's day, 1981, john hinckley is leaving more notes for jodie foster. on one postcard he writes, one day you and i will occupy the white house. please, do your best to remain a virgin. you are a virgin. aren't you? >> but this time hinckley is not just leaving her notes. he's contemplating a violent act. >> he had guns with him when he was in new haven stalking jodie foster and just unsure what he was doing with it. >> spurned once more by foster and feeling suicidal, hinckley goes to new york city, still carrying the guns he bought in dallas. >> we talked about the guns

chapman. a man on the left, a man on the right, they like each other. mark steyn may be the funniest man in america. he is hilarious and brilliant and knows everything about everything. before him, michael kelly was everyone's favorite guest. the late michael kelly. i talked with him not long before he went to iraq and died when his vehicle flipped over. , 70 timesr hitchens he came on. he never failed to entertain because he was authentic and funny. i am not smart enough or good enough or funny enough to be three hours of interest, but there are a lot of smart, funny people. him.e would really like he is very thoughtful, thought- provoking. >> make kristof from "the new york times" >> he is very thought-provoking, but they don't like the format too much because they will become very aggressive. not angry, but i will push. mark leibovitz, a great guest. michael shear. duane would do more to tell me how to do the show. he was in radio production before i became a radio host. >> what rules you have -- for instance, i will not do that? >> i will not do profane

marks the 33rd anniversary of john lenon's death. those recalling the former beatle gathered at new york central park. they placed strawberry, flowers and other tributes at the sidewalk. mike david chapman is currently serving a life sentence. >>> and it appears a merger between american airlines and u.s. airways will proceed. the group had argued the merger would result in higher fares and reduced choices for fliers. with a supreme court's refusal to hear the case the two airlines could sign papers to close the deal. >>> a commuter airline can't explain how a sleeping passenger ended up locked in a parked train during a lay over in houston. tom wagner says he took a flight in a flight from louisiana to california saturday night. he said when he woke up he was in the plane's dark cabin with no one else on board. he had been sitting on a window seat toward the back of the plane. >> i called my girlfriend she thought i was crazy. i said debby, i'm locked in a plane. she said honey stop. i said i'm telling you, you better call someone to get me off this plane. >> reporter: his girlfriend did call the airline and wagner was removed from the plane. they could not explain why he was still the

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