When police arrived on the scene shortly before 11 p.m. on December 8, 1980, John Lennon was

in such bad shape that they could not wait for the ambulance to arrive.

The officers scooped up John Lennon and put them in the back of a police squad car to rush

him off to Roosevelt Hospital.

Because of the location of the bullet holes, they had to lie him in the back of the vehicle

face down so that John would not choke on his own blood.

John was wheeled into the emergency room.

By this point, he had lost about 80% of his blood and virtually had no pulse at all.

Doctors and nurses were looking for a way to save this man's life.

So they made an incision in the left chest and separated the ribs and found a very large

amount of blood.

They looked for an injury to the heart and they used by hand to try to pump and massage

the heart to bring this man back to life.

But every time they pumped, most of what they pumped simply just came out blood out of

the holes.

It was totally ineffective.

Although seven medics tried desperately to revive him, John Lennon was finally pronounced

dead.

And at 11.15 p.m. on ABC Monday Night Football, Howard Cocelle announced John's death to the

world and you heard that clip in the trailer for part one of our coverage of John Lennon's

case.

You have the most famous man in the world dead and assassinated by Mark David Chapman,

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