Seconds after killing John Lennon on December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman calmly waited outside Lennon’s apartment building in New York City and began rereading his copy of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Less than four months later, on March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, Jr., tried to snuff out President Ronald Reagan. In his possession at the time A copy of Catcher. http://www.maximonline.com/stupid_fun/articles/article_498.html