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Originally Posted by drcoastline
Same here Howard Cosell. Hard to believe it has been forty years.
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MDC had a list of celebrities he wanted to kill. If I recall correctly, Howard Cosell was on the list. He chose Lennon because he was the most famous and most accessible. David Bowie was number two. Bowie was acting on Broadway at the time. MDC's plan was to get seats to the show and simply stand up and Shoot Bowie in the middle of his performance, a la John Wilkes booth.
Here is Bowie's recollection of that time:
On the day of the murder, singer David Bowie was appearing on Broadway in the play The Elephant Man. "I was second on his list," Bowie later said. "Chapman had a front-row ticket to The Elephant Man the next night. John and Yoko were supposed to sit front-row for that show too. So the night after John was killed there were three empty seats in the front row. I can't tell you how difficult that was to go on. I almost didn't make it through the performance."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_David_Chapman#:~:text=According%20to%20Chapma n%2C%20he%20had,Reagan%2C%20and%20Hawaii%20governo r%20George