John Lennon's Last Audio Recording and Rare Autograph Revealed
By: Elizabeth Gerst |CNBC Producer
Source:Ron Hummel
John Lennon And Yoko
"When I got back to San Francisco, I had a hundred messages on my answering machine, telling me [about Lennon's murder]," recounts Hummel. "When I saw Chapman's picture, I was sickened."
"John was supposed to go out to dinner that night," notes Sharp. Instead, he headed home to put his son Sean to bed. "Had [Lennon] gone to dinner, Chapman may have given up. Who knows if he would have returned? Sadly, we'll never know."
Three decades later, Hummel is ready to part with his historic artifact. "It's time," he concludes. "I've enjoyed it for 30 years, and now it's time for someone else to enjoy it. I'll always have my memories of that day with him, which are understandably, very bittersweet."
A Beatles historian has come across one of the last autographs John Lennon signed before his fatal encounter with Mark David Chapman thirty years ago. CNBC has learned that rock historian Denny Somach will put the autograph up for sale next week.
