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Paul McCartney Joins Marchers Against Gun Violence In NYC

NEW YORK (CBS) - Paul McCartney joined students and others in the the March for Our Lives event in New York City on Saturday.

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Sir Paul McCartney joins thousands of people, many of them students, march against gun violence in Manhattan during the March for Our Lives rally on March 24, 2018 in New York, United States. (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The former Beatle Paul McCartney told CNN he marched because his former bandmate John Lennon was lost to gun violence in 1980.

"One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here, so it's important to me," McCartney said in Manhattan.

Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman while returning home to the Dakota apartment building along Central Park West in 1980.

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Sir Paul McCartney joins thousands of people, many of them students, march against gun violence in Manhattan during the March for Our Lives rally on March 24, 2018 in New York, United States. (credit: Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

McCartney's T-shirt had the message, "We can end gun violence."

(© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press and CNN contributed to this report.)

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