He routinely receives letters from high school students whose teachers have assigned projects requiring them to write Chapman, often in connection with the reading of The Catcher in the Rye. Many organizations write to request autographs or photographs to be auctioned off to raise money for various charities. Chapman says that he was particularly upset by a letter he received “from the Red Cross, of all organizations,” asking him to donate autographed material for a celebrity auction. “I’m a man who brutally murdered another human being,” Chapman said, tossing the letter abruptly across a
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