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Incredible Documentary About "The Man Who Shot John Lennon."

Television Critic David Bianculli previews "The Man Who Shot John Lennon," the "Frontline" documentary on Mark David Chapman. The program relies on audiotaped psychiatric interviews with Chapman, and on a close analysis of the novel The Catcher in the Rye, which Chapman followed as though it were a script for Lennon's murder.

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Other segments from the episode on February 8, 1988

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, February 8, 1988: Interview with David Aaron; Review of Mark Helias' album "The Current Set"; Interview with John Waters, Part 1; Review of the television show "Frontline."

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