where was john lennon standing when he was shot?
New York City
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 Lennon , bleeding profusely from external wounds and also from his mouth , staggered up five steps to the security / reception area , saying , " I 'm shot , I 'm shot " . He then fell to the floor , scattering cassettes that he had been carrying . The concierge , Jay Hastings , first started to make a tourniquet , but upon ripping open Lennon 's blood @-@ stained shirt and realizing the severity of his multiple injuries , he covered Lennon 's chest with his uniform jacket , removed his blood @-@ covered glasses , and summoned the police . 

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 John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the members of the Beatles , for his subsequent solo career , and for his political activism and pacifism . On 8 December 1980 , Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the Dakota , his residence in New York City . Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife , Yoko Ono . 

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 In the scene , the group walk across the street in single file from left to right , with Lennon leading , followed by Starr , McCartney , and Harrison . McCartney is barefoot and out of step with the other members . Apart from Harrison , the group are wearing suits designed by Tommy Nutter . To the left of the picture , parked next to the zebra crossing , is a white Volkswagen Beetle motor @-@ car which belonged to one of the people living in the block of flats across from the recording studio . After the album was released , the number plate ( LMW 281F ) was stolen repeatedly from the car . In 1986 , the car was sold at auction for £ 2 @,@ 530 and in 2001 was on display in a museum in Germany . The man standing on the pavement to the right of the picture is Paul Cole ( c . 1911 – 13 February 2008 ) , an American tourist unaware he had been photographed until he saw the album cover months later . On the original cover , McCartney holds a cigarette ; in 2003 several US poster companies airbrushed this cigarette out of the image , without permission from either Apple or McCartney . 

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 Lennon 's murder triggered an outpouring of grief around the world on an unprecedented scale . Lennon 's remains were cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale , Westchester County , N.Y. ; no funeral was held . Ono sent word to the chanting crowd outside the Dakota that their singing had kept her awake ; she asked that they re @-@ convene at Central Park 's Naumburg Bandshell the following Sunday for ten minutes of silent prayer . On 14 December 1980 , millions of people around the world responded to Ono 's request to pause for ten minutes of silence to remember Lennon . Thirty thousand gathered in Liverpool , and the largest group — over 225 @,@ 000 — converged on New York 's Central Park , close to the scene of the shooting . For those ten minutes , every radio station in New York City went off the air . 

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 A film crew led by producer Gene Corman – linked to ABC Television – did eventually arrive to film proceedings , but within a day of their arrival the remaining Beatles had left ; Upon returning to England , Lennon dismissed the idea that the presence of the film crew had contributed to the timing of their exit . 
