Letters of John Lennon's killer to be auctionedFebruary 19, 2013 - 09:50 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Four letters that John Lennon's killer wrote to the New York City police officer who arrested him are on sale through a Los Angeles auction house, Belfast Telegraph reported. The letters from Mark David Chapman to Stephen Spiro are for sale starting at a fixed price of 75,000 dollars (£49,000) , says Gary Zimet, owner of Moments in Time. Mr Zimet says he's selling the letters on behalf of Mr Spiro, who arrested Chapman on December 8, 1980, shortly after Lennon was shot outside his Manhattan building. In the letters from 1983, Chapman asks for help locating his copy of The Catcher in the Rye, the novel he was reading when he was arrested. In August, the 57-year-old Chapman, who is serving a sentence of 20 years to life, was denied parole for the seventh time. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |