December 8, 1980

This is the last known autograph John gave before he was murdered. It was for a woman named Rabiah Seminole (notice that John misspelled her name, to which she told him and John told her that he wrote it the way it sounded like to him). Rabiah was working at a switchboard operator at the Record Plant and got the autographs of John and Yoko before they left for night which was around 10:30pm. I was so glad when I found out that John's last autograph (at least the last one we are aware of) was for a fan and was not for his killer (as previously believed).

There is no getting around it. As far as I am concerned today is a sad and difficult day for Beatles and John Lennon fans everywhere. As we know, before John went into the studio to work on Yoko's song "Walking on Thin Ice" he stopped to sign autographs for a group of fans waiting outside of the Dakota building. Sadly one of those so called "fans" was the man who would take his life later that day. As far as I know, no other photos or even autographs given at that brief meeting have surfaced except for the photographs taken by long time Lennon admirer and photographer, Paul Goresh. (Paul had snuck into the Dakota disguised as a plumber or something at one point to get photos of John.) He was sort of a paparazzi guy as well as a fan. Some of his photos are well known know (The cover of the Watching the Wheels single was taken by him), but on December 8, 1980 he was just known among the fans as someone who snapped a lot of John photos. Anyhow...here are all of the known photos from that day. Please know that I have purposely left John's killer out of the photos because I do not want a photograph of such an awful man on my blog.