Dakota Building where John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived and where Lennon was assassinated

 The arch of the Dakota building in New York City, the exact spot where the 40-year old John Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980. In the years prior to his death, Yoko and Lennon had become true poetical activists who supported a wide range of causes. In fact, Lennon and Yoko were to join striking minority sanitation workers in San Francisco just days after he was killed. His "Give Peace a Chance" became a rallying song for the anti-Vietnam War movement. And his song Imagine was an indictment of capitalist ethics and an inspiration for those who believe that a better and radically different world is possible. Tariq Ali documented that the FBI was keeping close tabs on Lennon. I am not (for the most part) a believer in conspiracy theory and I know little about Lennon's assassin Mark David Chapman, but it seems to me quite suspicious that what the FBI calls “Messiahs,” namely those with charismatic ability who reach out to a wide range of different groups (in Lennon's case African Americans with his support for Black Panthers, workers, gays, the Irish, etc), so often become targets for assassins.