In the early hours of April 17 1977, David Berkowitz blasted to death young lovers Alexander Esau and Valentina Suriani and left a handwritten letter in the middle of the street nearby, addressed to Captain Joe Borelli, the deputy chief of the task force, which had been set up to hunt down The .44 Caliber Killer.
One shot missed, passing over Lennon’s head and hitting a window of the Dakota building. However, two shots struck Lennon in the left side of his back and two more penetrated his left shoulder. All four bullets inflicted severe gunshot wounds, with at least one of them piercing Lennon’s aorta. Lennon staggered up five steps to the security/reception area, said, “I’m shot,” and collapsed. Concierge Jay Hastings covered Lennon with his uniform, and removed his glasses; he then summoned the police.
Julius Rosenberg was born on May 12, 1918, in New York. He graduated from the City College of New York with a degree in electrical engineering in 1939 and in 1940 joined the Army Signal Corps where he worked on
radar equipment. He became a leader in the Young Communist League, where he met Ethel in [...]
