Final Day Answer

Earlier I asked if we knew who the person that took the iconic photo of Lennon signing a copy of Double Fantasy for Mark David Chapman, who hours later would come back to kill him. And the answer is, we do:

Some 90 minutes later, they all headed downstairs. A small crowd waited outside, hoping to snag autographs. A heavyset young man in an overcoat stood among them, waving a copy of “Double Fantasy.” Accommodatingly, the singer wrote, “John Lennon, 1980.”

“Is that all?” Lennon asked. “Do you want anything else?”

The man shook his head no. In the midst of this, a photo was snapped by Paul Goresh — an amateur lenser who had his own history with Lennon: He improbably went from sneaking into the rock star’s apartment by posing as a VCR repairman, to becoming friendly enough to join him on walks around the neighborhood. The image captured Lennon inches away from his future assassin Chapman, the fan he had just met.