chapman will spend the next two days waiting for john lennon. >> who was mark david chapman? ember 8, 1980, mark david chapman was a very confused person. he was literally living inside of a paperback novel, j.d. salinger's "the catcher in the rye." and he was vacillating between suicide and taking the first taxi back to hawaii back and forth between killing an icon. >> and then on the morning of december 8th, chapman calls his wife in hawaii. after hanging up, chapman takes out the bible from his suitcase and turns to the new testament book of john and writes the word "lennon" after 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 was going to 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 in the rye," signed it to holden caulfield from holden caulfield, and wrote underneath that, "this is my statement," underlining the word "this," the emphasis on th