John Lennon, a former member of the Beatles, the rock group
that transformed popular music in the 1960s,was shot and
killed by an obsessed fan in New York City. 

The 40-year-old artist was entering his luxury Manhattan
apartment building when Mark David Chapman shot him four
times at close range with a .38-caliber revolver. Lennon,
bleeding profusely, was rushed to the hospital but died en
route. Chapman had received an autograph from Lennon
earlier in the day and voluntarily remained at the scene of
the shooting until he was arrested by police.

Chapman turned 68 May 10th.

MIKE GRACIA

On this day in 1973, a Senate vote confirmed Gerald Ford as
vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned to avoid being indicted for allegedly accepting bribes. Ford was the first
vice president to be selected under the terms of the 25th Amendment.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
(born Leslie Lynch King Jr.)
(July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006)

On this day in 1933, a mob of people in San Jose, California, stormed
the jail where Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes are being held
as suspects in the kidnapping and murder of Brooke Hart, the 22-
year-old son of a local storeowner. The mob of angry citizens
proceeded to lynch the accused men and then pose them for
pictures.         

Brooke Hart

The dead body of Brooke Hart.

Sheriff William Emig (left), suspect Thomas Thurmond,
and an unknown person are pictured.

John M. Holmes (center). 

John Emil List slaughtered his entire family in their
Westfield, New Jersey, home and then disappeared.

Though police quickly identified List as the most likely
suspect in the murders, it took 18 years for them to
locate him and close the case.

John Emil List (September 17, 1925 – March 21, 2008)

At the end of a sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson
was acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged
wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.