John Lennon and Yoko Ono pose on the steps of the Apple building in London in 1969, holding one of the posters they distributed to the world’s major cities as part of a peace campaign protesting the Vietnam War.
John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, arrive at The Hit Factory, a recording studio in New York City on Aug. 22, 1980, to work on the album “Double Fantasy.”
Yoko Ono is comforted by David Geffen, right, of Geffen Records as she leaves Roosevelt Hospital in New York late Dec. 8, 1980, after the death of her husband, John Lennon.
Police lead Mark David Chapman, 25 (center of door with head covered), the suspect in the shooting death of John Lennon, from the 20th Precinct on New York‘s Upper West Side, on Dec. 9. 1980. Chapman was later convicted of the killing.
A young woman is comforted as she is overcome with emotion during the silent vigil on Dec. 14, 1980, in memory John Lennon in Central Park in New York.
People jam the street at Central Park West and 72nd Street in New York, just outside the Dakota apartment house where John Lennon lived, on Dec. 14, 1980, after leaving a memorial service held at the bandshell in Central Park, across the street. Police estimated the crowd at 50,000 to 100,000.