December 8, 2005  When John Lennon died.  The doctor who held
John Lennon's heart in his hands and tried to pump it back to
life remembers that night, 25 years ago: "There was just nothing
left to pump," Dr. [Stephan G.] Lynn recalled in an interview.
"There was so much damage to the major blood vessels leading
from the heart" that his blood just leaked out....  "The bullets
were amazingly well-placed," he said. "All the major blood
vessels leaving the heart were a mush, and there was no way to
fix it." I remember hearing the news on the radio the next
morning. I heard the news today, oh boy...  I usually listen to
a little news on the radio before getting out of bed. I guess
I've done that for a long, long time, because I can remember
turning on the radio in 1968 and hearing that Bobby Kennedy had
been shot to death.  On the day I heard that John had died, I
was a law student at NYU. I remember dragging myself in to the
law review office and expecting everyone there to be crying and
talking about it, but no