It was twenty years ago today that a person shot and killed John Lennon outside the Dakota on West 72nd Street in New York City, bringing whatever was left of the sixties to a definitive and miserable end. Twenty years to the day after the death of Beatle John Lennon , the city of Liverpool paid its respects Friday to its No. 1 son. A death that marked the seam of a generation … The whole street was filled with people, many of them sobbing, curious onlookers, reporters, and just a lot of people in a state of shock.