Retired Teacher Mick Peterson on his letter from John Lennon’s assassin

Posted: Dec 19, 2018 / 03:33 PM CST / Updated: Dec 19, 2018 / 03:32 PM CST

The gun used by Mark David Chapman to kill John Lennon is displayed next to their pictures at a small museum in the Forensic Investigation Division of the New York Police Department in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. Today is the anniversary of Lennon’s death; he was killed 35 years ago by Chapman in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Retired Teacher Mick Peterson of Walnut High School joins John Williams to explain why he assigned his class to write a letter to Mark David Chapman, the murderer of John Lennon.

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