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19th of August, 1966. Mid-South Coliseum.

Shot rings out in the Memphis arena. With the KKK picketing outside and tensions high, The Beatles set in front of 12,500 people is cut suddenly short.

John Lennon was grazed harmlessly in the shoulder by the bullet intended for him, one of three that miraculously missed him. The band frantically looked about them to see who had been hit as the Memphis Police Department rushes the stage to secure them. The deafening screams become more deafening...

John begins to scream with them as his body crumples and he falls to the floor in front of Paul McCartney, his sunglasses falling into a pool of blood that is not his own. He cannot even feel the pain of his blood soaked shoulder. Lennon is in shock.

Paul McCartney was struck in the side of the head. The pop star was dead in Memphis at 24.

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