Twenty-eight years ago today, John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York apartment building by Mark David Chapman.

Today we salute his optimism for a better world and mourn all the potential wasted when the very violence he spoke out against claimed his life.



Lennon would have turned 68 this past October.

Fans to mark anniversary of John Lennon's death at Strawberry Fields in Central Park [New York Daily News]