October 20, 2006
Norman Rockwell's Manufactured Innocence
On October 10, 1980, Mark David Chapman sold his beloved lithograph of Norman Rockwell's "Triple Self-Portrait" to a Hawaiian public-relations man for $7,500. Chapman, who was strapped for cash, used the proceeds to quit his job, purchase a .38 revolver, buy airfare to New York, and book a room at the Waldorf Astoria. From this base of operations he would stalk John Lennon at the Dakota and finally, in December, take his life. I find it suggestive that one icon of innocence was used to fund
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