Eyewitness to the Death of John Lennon | WABC-TV Special
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2023
- The murder of John Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980, was as devastating as it was shocking. And Eyewitness News covered the murder like no other news source, as it happened in our backyard, to a person who was more than just one of the most famous celebrities on Earth - he was our neighbor.
John Lennon lived at the Dakota, just a few blocks from our studio. Employees of Channel 7 considered him a friendly face they'd wave to -- he, Yoko, and their young son, Sean, would shop in the same shops and go for walks on the same streets. At least one ABC employee, Geraldo Rivera, was a close friend of the Lennons.
Our special "Eyewitness to the Death of John Lennon," hosted by Bill Ritter, interviews the big players in that story, both in front of the camera -- Geraldo Rivera, Ernie Anastos, John Johnson, Doug Johnson -- to those behind the scenes.
Indeed, we've perhaps never been more of an "Eyewitness" to a story - a Channel 7 producer, Alan Weiss, happened to be at Roosevelt Hospital after a motorcycle-riding injury when the mortally wounded former Beatle was carried in.
Having witnessed the fight to save Lennon, Alan managed to call the news into the WABC assignment desk, where the scanner was blaring about a shooting at the Dakota.
Soon, Weiss' news tip would reach Howard Cosell, who would break the news to the nation on ABC's Monday Night Football -- but not before debating whether he should.
At Channel 7, the newsroom was a whirlwind as the nightmarish story developed, and Ernie Anastos and Rose Ann Scamardella prepared to go on the air after the game.
The next week that followed, culminating in a historic tribute vigil in Central Park was unlike any other in New York, America -- or the Eyewitness newsroom.
Our John Lennon special tells the story that shook the world from a perspective you've never seen -- as it happened, moment by moment, with rare or just-discovered historical footage, all through the eyes of Eyewitness News.
"Eyewitness to the Death of John Lennon" is NOW STREAMING on ABC7's streaming apps on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Android TV. To stream, search "ABC7 New York" in the app store.
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True story: at the time, I had a very, very loud parrot who screamed whenever the TV was on. During the 10 minutes of silence for John on TV, the parrot was actually quiet and looked tearful.
Behave yerself!....
@@frankhornby6873 I am....
I can believe that. Two years ago I had something similar happen.
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Sounds like your parrot was in on the hit!
I still remember the night John Lennon was murdered. My husband and I was watching Monday Night Football game laying on the floor. We couldn't believe what we heard I went out and bought the Double Fantasy album, and still have it to this day. Forever in our hearts John
Me too 🏈
MNF
Same here. I always wondered how I didn't have Double Fantasy already. I usually kept up on the new Beatle releases but like everything I took it for granted.
I heard about his shooting on the bathroom radio while brushing my teeth.
I heard that his death was confirmed by Howard Cosell.
@@Ebert-Pincus because you didnt like yoko
My uncle beat the table with his fist in anger, and wept. I was 4 years old, and it was the first time I’d seen a man cry.
RIP John ❤️
2 (yes T W O) gunmen. 8-10 bullets (Mark Chapmans gun holds 5 bullets). Jose Perdomo - security gauad outside, was CIA. Perdomo worked with Frank Sturgis (watergate burglar) for 10 years.
I was 6 years old at the time but I remember that day as well.
@@TRANZEURO so many hearts were breaking all over the planet that day. What a terrible loss.
@@mogadon7 Not sure it the same Jose, He worked there since 1969 so that's an 11 year wait time. It doesn't make any sense, none of it does.
@mogadon7 don't say that bastards name.Johns killer.
My father passed away on 1st December 1980, 1 week later John was killed, I cried so much . Its a time I will never forget .RIP dad and John ❤❤❤❤🏴🏴🏴
I understand. I was a Beatles fan and in particular John Lennon. My parents died in April and May of 1980.
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That man who did that I will never forgive him my mother and sister are also gone miss them but no way I forgive that man I can't@@michaelbarnhart2593
A sad loss man love double fantasy he was going to tour in March of that year true story
"hold fast" (1Thess.5 :21, the Bible)
43 Years Later. Still Hurts 😢😢
It does, doesn't it. I never met him, hé wasn't a friend of mine or a member of the family but I fuckin love the man and I DO really miss him. Weird, eh?!
@@cannotfindmyshoes3 Anyone who names himself Spanky. Is Weird as Hell.
@@cannotfindmyshoes3I get it!❤❤❤
Indeed
43 years ago this hour 10:45
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Every day...I always look up at his bedroom window and say good morning to John as I walk past his old house here in Liverpool - RIP - X
That's amazing that you get to look up into his bedroom window where he laughed and played. Please say hello from me in US and let him know he's loved and missed
Say Hello for me. I miss him ♥️
Hello from Judy aka Jude from California 😢
Where is it? I would like to go and travel England around
I have tears in my eyes after reading your heartfelt comment. Please send my love from Montreal to my hero John.
My best friend and I were watching Monday Night Football when Howard Cosell announced that John Lennon was shot. When he said "Dead on arrival", my heart sunk. When he said, "This game doesn't mean much any more", I stood up and walked upstairs to my bedroom and laid down on the bed and started to cry. I was 23 years old at the time. I was also a major Beatles fan since i saw them on Ed Sullivan in 1964 at the ripe age of 6 years old. After they split up, I always debated with myself who was my favorite solo Beatle. I could never decide between McCartney or Lennon. On December 8th 1980, i knew who my favorite Beatle was. I cried because i knew the dream really was over. No more Beatle reunion. No more new music from John. I still love the Beatles as much as i ever did. I miss John and George, every time i hear them sing. The difference is that when i hear George sing, I smile and miss him. When i hear John sing, i also smile and miss him, also. Then i start to grieve over his murder and how he was robbed of his life at a time in his life when he was so happy, when he was talking about touring, when he even was talking about a future Beatles reunion, and most important, how happy his family life was. In a couple of days, The last ever new Beatles song will be released. All four Beatles will be singing and playing on a John Lennon song that he recorded a demo of and didnt finish it. He took that demo cassette out of the player, put it back in its case and wrote "To Paul" on the cassette. In 1995, Yoko gave the cassette to Paul. The Beatles finished and released two of the songs. They started recording the last song, "Now and Then" and shelved it until recently. I have heard that demo many times. In my opinion, it is John singing about Paul. Happy Birthday, John, and congratulations to The Beatles! I can't wait to here the completed demo. ✌️ ❤
It is a wonderful video. So damn tragic and sad.
Well said mate
I just turned 18 the month before.I was riding in my Brother's car when it came over the car radio. IT MADE US ALL FEEL SICK!!!!!!
I was 31 when I heard of the tragic loss of my hero John Lennon. Gunned down like he was makes me sick and very angry. But life is fragile as we have witnessed over the decades. I would like to “Imagine” he is doing just fine wherever he is.
I was watching that game as well. I was in Fullerton, CA at my dad's house.
I remember it like it was yesterday & I am still as horrified as I was then.
Just as when President Kennedy was assassinated, one will never forget
Same
I'm with you there. I was 5 but I remember, having heard The Beatles all my life, I know this was big, and I remember asking my mom to explain it to me.
I was 16 years old when it happened. I remember the morning I found out distinctly, even now 40+ years later. When the news hit I was getting ready for school. I broke down in tears, walked back into my bedroom and plopped on a Beatles LP and told my mom I would not be going to school that day. Gratefully, she OK'd it. She was just as much a Beatles fan as I was.
thanks for this recap. It was painful to watch and remember.... but worth the trip down memory lane.
I was 16 too, but in California it happened in the evening time so later than that in New York City. But I understand what you meant.
@@Manuel-so7mz I was in Kentucky at the time, and as a 16 year old, my parents held a strict bed-time policy on all school nights. Thus, I was already asleep when it happened and didn't find out about it until the next morning when mom popped on the morning news.
@@BethelAbba I was listening to their red album yesterday and strangely enough didn't realize it had just been Lennon's anniversary. Have a great day.
Why didn't dude off yoko in stead I was watching with Jeff and HAZELS BABBY BOY AND HOWARD COCELL!
@@kenperkins7921Move on.
The one person I've never heard from is the driver who dropped John and Yoko at the Dakota that night. Considering John got out of the car first with a bunch of tapes and had already reached the entrance by the time Yoko exited, you'd think the driver would have been one of the first people police and journalists would have interviewed. Yet after all these years, nobody has ever spoken to or about him.
Actually it was Yoko who exited the car first and had already walked past the assassin before he fired his weapon, so she heard the shots but didn't see the shooter yet when John stumbled past her and collapsed inside the lobby off the Dakota's courtyard. Yes, I have also wondered what happened to that driver. I'm sure he must've been interviewed by police at least, but since there was no real investigation required, perhaps he just preferred remaining anonymous to the public. It must've been a horrible trauma for him, knowing that someone who'd just gotten a ride home from him, never actually made it safely inside. So tragic.
@@Chinachik You are right of course. Yoko went in first. I don't know when I started believing it was John.
If only they'd have had some form of security.
Another mystery is what John said to Jack Douglas that night which was so weird/upsetting Douglas destroyed the tape which he recorded the the conversation on.
It's been discussed on many forums and platforms but Douglas refuses to reveal what it was.
@@davidrobinson2776 I so wish that they’d had security. I also can understand wanting the freedom of living life without it, but unfortunately John was too high profile and publicly recognizable to do that.
I too wonder what John told Jack that was so disturbing he erased the tape of their conversation and has refused to ever speak of it since. It must’ve been something that completely rattled him. I guess it will just remain another of those unsolved mysteries surrounding John’s murder. I do have my theories, though they of course will never be proven.
@@Chinachik one of the theories I heard was he was very ill, maybe with something extremely life threatening. Judging by John's appearance back then, I wouldn't be too shocked if the rumours were true.
Then again, he may have just been being very morbid. John was obsessed with his own mortality and what, to him, may have been a throw away comment may have been prophetic.
What crossed my mind once: that John told Jack that he signed an autograph earlier that day to a guy he thought was so strange that he was surprised not to be shot by him. @@davidrobinson2776 THAT would actually be one thing that is not surprising that Jack never talked about it publicly there.
Excellent TV Special!! ..That night I was rehearsing with my Beatles tribute band the song It Won't Be Long (from the album WITH THE BEATLES, 1964). We stopped the rehearsal abruptly when somebody called us to come upstairs immediately to watch the devastating news on the TV. We were shocked! The next morning I sobbed like a child in the shower. To this day I still can't believe it. Today, John would have celebrated his 83rd birthday. RIP, John.
I love that song! ♥️
I didn’t hear the news until the next morning because I had gone to bed early the night he was shot. I cried and cried and cried over his death.
If you sang in American accents it possibly wouldn't have sounded the same 😉
@@kaymuldoon3575Save your tears for the living, who need help.
Lennon was a wife beater (Cynthia) and thug.
He was so insanely jealous of Stuart Sutcliffe, he may have caused his brain hemorrhage.
He beat him senseless; in Hamburg.
Liverpool people told me that.
I'd say they knew him better than you, I or any bias comments here.
Regards
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I CRIED WHEN I HEARD THE NEWS OF JOHN LENNON'S DEATH. John was my favorite Beatle 😢
David, have you seen any of the performances of Beatles songs by the Boston singer Brad Delp?
I was 14 then and I'll never forget it. It changed the course of my young life 💔
There was absolutely nothing I could say when I heard but why and cried.Still absolutely devastating this man meant so much to me and so many others all over the world and completely changed the way we view it forever. R .I.P John you are missed.
Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game, it's easy.
@@bajorekjon Yeah he will never ever be forgotten Shouting all about love while they treated you like a dog All you need is love and along comes Chapman.
@@deborahrohl7690Yeah he was a complicated person but it seems like he got taken out right when he was turning his life around. What a tragedy.
@@bajorekjon I agree wholeheartedly.
The Beatles were more popular than jesus. And kids want Beatles not jesus he provoked the whole world with those words. Agree ?
So sad.. A man that loved and wanted peace for everyone.. John you're missed and never forgotten..
Well said
Rest In Peace John Lennon !
Yep 🌹👈miss you John 🙁
I was in the hospital and did not find out about Lennon's death until the morning of Dec. 9, 1980. I was young, but I knew the impact of Lennon's death.
Way to make it all about yourself.
No more than what you are doing @@thefonzkiss
Watching these news reports over 40 years later is still very difficult.
On December 8th, 1980 Yoko Ono lost her husband and the entire world lost a musical legend and a deeply insightful man who brought all of his fans great pleasure throughout the years. He wrote: Imagine there’s no country, I wonder if you can, nothing to kill or die for, just the brotherhood of man. You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. Such a great, talented songwriter and musician who was taken from us too soon !! 😢😢😢😢
Does anyone remember the words of John Lennon and Paul McCartney ? “ Life is very short and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend. I have always thought that it’s a crime, so I will ask you once again - Try to see it my way, do I have to keep on talking till I can’t go on, while we see it your way at the risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone …. We can work it out, we can work it out ! Those are words from the Beatles that we would all be wise to remember.
@@user-gp1by7jy6cI love the Stevie Wonder version of that song too.
Also, Sean and Julian lost their father. I'm glad they are close and inspire each other's works. Their father would be proud.
@@user-gp1by7jy6c😢😢😢😢
i WAS IN GRADE 11 when lennon died. My twin brother said 'hey Rick they are playing all kinds of Beatle songs and john Lennon songs on the radio and I don't know why and i was on my way to school at the time and the sadness of my brother's voice confirming what I had just heard is something i can never forget,
Rest in Peace John.
Each year on John Lennon's date of birth (October 9th) the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland is "Lit" until the day he died (December 8th).
That's so nice that they do that to honor John Lennon 👓 ☪❤🎵🎸☮🦃 🚶♂🚶♂🚶♂🚶♂🌞🌞
@@user-kq1hg3eo6l
Yes ... The Peace Tower is forever ☮️ 🕯
As a lifelong Beatle fan and especially a fan of John. I remember this night that changed how I viewed this world forever. I will never forget it. Sleep in peace John.
I hear ya ! 😔
I hear u too
My uncle also remembers it
I remember the DJ on the radio reporting his death and saying 'This is the worst g-damn news I've ever heard.' and being only 12 at the time, I didn't get what he meant. Years later when I realized what a loss this was for the world, I get it. What an impact he had during the short time we all knew him; the sky would have been the limit to what he could have done if he was still here
You know just exactly how shattering this was when a DJ on commercial radio in 1980 said god da* and didn't get in trouble for it. The program director, station manager, the engineers, the owner, the sponsors, everyone was in deep shock.
@@ksol1460tv the DJ actually sounded more angry than shocked. Like why would anybody kill this talented peaceful brilliant man? I can still hear that DJs voice saying those words in that tone to this very day. I think he's actually a DJ on the same radio station, as crazy as that is
@@badmoodana6532 Wow! What radio station was this? I'd like to contact him. I've literally never heard of this before. Back then it was unheard of and strictly forbidden on commercial radio, even on college or community stations, to use any of that kind of language. Like there was a song that said "give a damn about your fellow man" and it was banned on the radio.
@ksol1460tv the station is in Las Vegas, 92.3 FM and it's KOMP. KOMP has been around forever and a day. The DJs name is Mike Kolada. Forgive me if he perhaps retired recently, but I knew he was on KOMP for decades. And it's one of those vivid memories from my childhood, standing in my bedroom, little radio on my dresser, and those exact words being said in that angry tone
@ksol1460tv I'm sure if you were able to reach out to Mike somehow he would remember it also. Reporting something like that is something you never forget
So heartbreaking and horrible never forget it
Today I still feel the same sadness as when John was murdered. His legacy and memory remain with us❤!He awakened my dreams! RIP John!
Same here, 43 years later and I steel feel the pain from 1980... I'm so happy that John has a "New" song out with the rest of his Beatle buddies!
" _Now & Then_ " Its just so fantastic hearing John's voice again! God Bless them all! ❤ ❤✝✝🎸🎸 🚶♂🚶♂🚶♂🚶♂ 🌞
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John was Atheist ⚛️
I'm Sean's age and didn't know John Lennon, but watching this...made me cry. I'm so sad and sorry. 🙏
LOVE you All ✌️
43 years later, and i've thought about the event every day.
WOW, YOU GOT A PROBLEM.
Can totally understand, Tony.
It’s because the music is engraved in our minds and life. We can’t help but enjoy the music and at the same time we wish the band could make more. That’s when we’re reminded of the of the tragedy. There’s almost no way to talk about the end of the Beatles without mentioning the murder.
I was born in 89, but it’s very upsetting to me as well. I went to visit his memorial to leave some flowers. His music lives on.
@@HalfEatenMedia Well said!
Somethings, just never leave you 😢❤
I have "Imagine" in John's handwriting tattooed on my wrist. Hearing John's resurrected voice on "Now and Then" was so startling that I shed a tear and do every time I hear it and probably always will. I miss John as millions do.
RIP John. 😢
I can't believe how many people on these comments cried about that!
I wouldn't cry if my own mother or father died!
@MikeFuller-ok6ok I'm sorry you had bad parents. My father was a monster too.
@@akahina
I have wonderful and very, very supportive parents!!
@@akahina
I have wonderful and very, very supportive parents!!
@@MikeFuller-ok6ok You don't feel grief over loss, or so it seems. What a pity.
I can't watch it... It still Hurts
That Mark Chapman is a psychopathic killer. Hopefully he will not get out of prison. He and Yolanda Saldivar (Selena's killer) must not be let back into society.
Don't mentioning his bloody name. Plz whipe it from this comment.
@@janvrolijk9126 Or what !?
He keeps trying for parole. Does he not realize he would be killed as soon as he got out?
@@kaymuldoon3575 I'm quite sure a lot of people want revenge against him.
And Yolanda Saldivar too. (Selena's killer).
I concur !!
I was driving to work my 11 PM shift when Lennon was shot. Heard the terrible
news from my supervisor. I was also in the same building 21 years later when
a greater tragedy occurred. Sept 11, 2001. Lennon was shot on a Monday, and
the twin towers fell on a Tuesday. Lennon is gone, the towers are gone, but that
building I worked in is still standing. The mall that surrounded it is also gone. It
is one of the buildings that never got demolished. The building was constructed
the same year the Beatles arrived in New York. We closed it the same week the
towers fell. Life can be very, very strange.
I cried for days.
My sister and I did too 😢
I wasn’t born for another 18 years but I still cry for John Lennon, God I just wish it didn’t happen
I remember this day. I was at cosmotology school near the Empire state building.....and they announced it from the speaker. " I was so devastated." May he R.I P 😪♥️
I am a Long time Beatle fan, and a John Lennon fan for sure.I have seen so many videos about this day, but this one was truly the best I have watched
I miss John Lennon, May he rest in eternal peace 💔🎼💔
On that horrible evening, I was twenty-years-old and working at a facility with newswires. I saw the story come over the wire in Los Angeles before it hit the radio and television media. I still have that original news wire. I've saved it for over 43-years. I remember that night like it was yesterday. So horribly sad.
I've always seen this as a tragic waste and lamented the music we never got to hear, but John Lennon was so good to listen to in interviews. Such a shame we never got to hear his thoughts on current events and the technological gadgets we have now.
I think the world has missed out on his insights.
Another legend, Bob Marley, died of cancer 5 months later, on May 11, 1981, in Miami. He was 36 years old
Both of these men were a threat to this system we now live under. Oligarchy. Authoritarianism.
They may have been targets for ghouls of greed. Those alphabet agencies work in many ways to direct the narrative.
Look into Chapman. Look into Marley’s soccer injury from an unidentified player’s spiked shoe.
Things aren’t always what they seem.
He was given cancer by a CIA agent
It still upsets me so much. Extreme sadness tinged with anger.
Same
My mother died a few months before John, they were the two people who meant the most to me. She took me to see The Beatles when I was 6. I miss those two every year since they left this plane!!
Never a huge beatles fan, but I appreciate their ingenuity and the influence they had on many of my favourite Manchester bands. RIP big man.
Agreed. When I'm driving down the road and a Beatles song comes on the radio it's like 'oh another Beatles song'. I don't turn up the radio and pound my fist on the steering wheel like I will when a song like Kashmir, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Baba O'Reilly, Start Me Up etc, comes on.
I’ll never understand how anyone who likes music doesn’t like the Beatles unless they only heard the radio friendly hits and not their later more progressive work
@@jayclarke6671yeah but the radio only plays their early hits.
The Beatles had 20 #1 hits. Anyone who does not like the Beatles is weird to me...(with all due respect)
@@leonardomunoz4009 so what? Those number one hits are mostly just 3 minute pop songs that sound very dated and that you sing along to. Zepps classics are light years ahead in terms of complexity etc and they still get you excited when they come on the radio in 2023.
John had his issues but we all do.
I remember as if it was yesterday. It was like 9/11. John was my favorite Beatle. I shall never forget that day. RIP John and George. God Bless.
I was 12 and can still remember the tv news that day. Doesn't lose any shock value.
I was 14 and I still can’t believe it happened. 😢
I was 17. I'll never forget that terrible morning, when I heard the news on the radio while having breakfast. I felt my heart breaking, just like I'd lost a member of my family, a dear friend, a part of me.
Outstanding program. The release of the new song and video, now and then, along with this show brings up many sad emotions 😢
Thanks to the wonderful technology of recorded vision & sound John Lennon will never die! Rest in peace 🙏 great human being.
He definitely wasn't that bias named commentator.
John Lennon, a "great human being"??
Really?
Not that he deserved to die like he did, but Lennon was not exactly the "peacenik" most of his fans think he was. He was actually in favor of an armed overthrow of the US government by his communist-revolutionary comrades, and was reluctant only because he didn't think they would be successful. That they wouldn't stand a chance against the military and local police. So, IMO, he is not someone to be admired, especially as someone who promoted "peace" and "love". Communism is a horrible system, with nearly 100 million murdered under it.
The Lost John Lennon Interview "Power to the People"
by TARIQ ALI and ROBIN BLACKBURN
TA (interviewer): In a way you were even thinking about politics when you seemed to be knocking revolution?
JL (Lennon): Ah, sure, 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.
The original version which ends up on the LP said 'count me in' too; I put in both because I wasn't sure.
There was a third version that was just abstract, musique concrete, kind of loops and that, people screaming.
I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution--but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
On the version released as a single I said 'when you talk about destruction you can count me out'. I didn't want to get killed.
I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off. I just thought it was unsubtle, you know.
I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.
That was how I felt--I was really asking a question.
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game. ..."
Yeah, his art will live forever, and he with it.
Omg the part when he says when the played the song all my loving in the hospital, I started to shed some tears 💔 😢
My wife and I went to Liverpool in 2008. We saw where john and paul met, all their homes and everything else imaginable. It was a beautiful and sad experience at the same time.
I dont watch thrse documentaries anymore. They're simply to depressing and they serve no purpose to me any longer.
I still have 30 Beatles song's in my Spotify rotation and listen to them regularly. That brings we joy. John and George passing is just so sad. Ive seen paul twice now. The last time he still had a voice. Its gone now. Its time to hang it up or charge 10.00 for tickets ans donste the money.
I saw Paul tonight, and he was fanfuckingtastic
It’s sooooo frustrating that someone as amazing as John Lennon is taken from us by a total nobody with nothing absolutely zero to give the world!
Watching this Documentary is making my heart hurts 😢
I was at a small party in LA. We had a rock station on in the background. Suddenly, they broke in with the news. I had a friend named John Dunn who was the epitome of John Lennon. We'd recorded at Warner Brothers the year before - and John's music was so similar to Lennon's, it was eerie. So, I thought they said "John Dunn is dead". Then I reallized they'd said "John Lennon". A week later, John Dunn atttended the Lennon vigil in Los Angeles. On the drive home, the car he was riding in was involved in a collision. John was thrown from the car and died instantly. Again - it was eerie.
He lived and died before I was born, only just. He's my idol!
I was 1 year old in 1980, so i dont remember. But I remember being very little, in a car with my mom and brothers listening to the radio and "watching the wheels" started playing and my mother just said "oh, it's John " and she turned the volume up. A few years later I became a Beatles fan and +/- 40 years later I still have this memory. I don't know if I had any idea of who who was "John" but it sounded that he meant a lot to my mom.
I remember this. I was very young and it was so sad. 😢
My dad was 10 years old when John Lennon died, we was just starting to get into the Beatles music, his parents told him about it when they showed him in the paper on December 9th, 1980 the morning after he was shot
Same age as me I was ten
This still sends chills to my soul, makes me cry very hard, and I feel really really sad for Yoko Ono and their family. God bless you, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. I love you both as family and I’m a fan of your music of John Lennon and Yoko Ono makes me cry watching this video, I get choked up everybody. It’s hard to watch. Why would anybody wanna kill John Lennon? He was so peaceful he was everybody’s friend. I don’t know why.
Happy Birthday John, we need you now more than ever Buddy!!
I live Nashville but in Dallas on Sunday the moment of silence at a park an at noon everyone just stopped it was kinda strange and also amazing 🎼✌🏻❤️
What a great video. It made me think back on that day and what I was doing. Thank you.
Yo ko had just finished, braking up the ,BEATLES, WAY TO GO YUCKO
I think one of the saddest days of my life, and it never gets any easier💕🎼🎶
Wow 43 years later I was in my last year of middle school the month he was killed the following month I was going to one of my classmates funeral who sadly passed away from Leukemia RIP John and my classmate Willie ☦️🙏✝️💙💙
I heard about it on my way to school from 2 of my schoolfriends I met on the way, but I didn´t believe them. Just when I arrived at school a teacher looked at me with a very sad face and I knew it´s true. I cried so much so they sent me home. John Lennon was the first man in my life I cried for. I was 10 years old.
A very well produced and informative news presentation.
Happy birthday Mr. Lennon
😢🤍 these moments are etched in my memory forever & ever 💜🤎🩶🤍 rip John L 🎹🎸🎙
I left Northwest Florida around Noon that day, driving my Mom to see her family in Brooklyn(NYC). After surviving the Atlanta rush-hour traffic, we drove on, and soon after dark all the radio stations began playing all Beatles songs; we thought, "That's weird." After a while we heard a news program with the awful news. And so I kept on driving(in those days, the best way to drive from Pensacola to NYC was to avoid the main Interstate highways and travel the Interstates in the mountains to the west, where - except for 18-wheelers - there was a lot less traffic if you drove all night) and listening to the radio. It was depressing and I thought, "What a catastrophe."
But what sticks in my mind the MOST about that night, all these years later, is that after midnight there was one of those "Amazing Police Stories" programs that told the story of a Police raid that was the result of a sting operation. The story was that Baltimore, Maryland social services officers had caught a married couple who had come with an infant; they thought that they had arranged with an drug dealer(who was actually an undercover narcotics officer) TO TRADE THEIR BABY FOR A KILO OF COCAINE. A few moments later in the story, someone mentioned that the woman said "it wasn't the first time they'd done that."
It was truly an AWFUL and unforgettable night. RIP John Ono Lennon. "Imagine."
I stood outside the Dakota building 30 years after the shooting still a shock and upsetting Ian
I loved that man so much. I miss him so much!
I too will always Love and Miss John!!! A few opf my favorite songs by John are "Imagine", "#9 Dream",
1 was in class..3d.primary..9 or ten my teacher broke down crying..he said you kids will remember this for the rest of your lives..I did and still do.decemember 1980 about 10am English him I thon😢
I was 15 when John was killed ...Still hurts to this day 💔
I was 18 - and asleep. Did not know until the next morning when I turned on the radio. I thought, "This must be a 'Paul is dead' thing. " When I realized it was true, I thought, "They got John." Like you, it still hurts me over 4 decades later.
This was done so well!
Very good documentary 👍
"All you need is Love."
"Yeah love is all you need"....
A nobody destroyed the greatest man of his generation.
only in america the 'greatest' counttry.....i would say most violent country..alwats involved in wars as arms make huge money
I think its very strange that they never interview the true witnesses of the crime that were inside and outside the Dakota at that very moment
I remember this announcement during the game I retreated to my room I was 12 and I didn't know it at the time but I was in shock I couldn't talk or cry it was unreal and I'll never forget the way it felt he was my favorite Beatle it was my first 💔
One of those events in history that is still, and forever will be, hard to believe even happened. So surreal. Always will be.
RIP John Lennon u will never be forgotten !
I remember this when I was 16 and mourned for his death. I also remember the moment of silence.
I was 16 too....didn't phase me
It still hurts
Yeesh, Alan Weiss is annoying. "Please let me make a call so we can make money off of this story before anyone else does." Its pretty sick that he guilted the doctor to let him make the call
Such a tremendous loss.
Unlike most people I heard about it on the bathroom radio while brushing my teeth.
I caught it in mid sentence and I heard, "ennon was shot in New York City." I was wondering who this "ennon" was. Then it was repeated.
I finished brushing my teeth and turned on the Monday Night Football Game when Howard Cosell confirmed it.
When Cosell said, "Dead on arrival" I had a chill go up and down my spine that I hadn't felt before or since.
So very sad that he was murdered…why?…he made great music and was a really talented man! Everyone that knew him had great respect for him…it is so sad that there are real nut cases that kill wonderful people…John will never be forgotten!
I had just turned 24 a month before it happened. I too was watching sports on tv, i remember it being a Mich. State basketball game. I had a friend over to watch the game together when breaking news came on and we heard what happened to John. Just like everyone here, the loss was devastating. It still is. I was so happy when Now and Then came out, i wish George could have seen how much the world loves hearing the Beatles again in one way or another. The Beatles were more than a band, they were an inspiration to an entire generation, and continue to be. Thank you to Paul and Ringo for the wonderful gift of Now and Then.
He is still a legend I adored him
I was born over 13 years after this happened. It angers me so much and almost feels as if I experienced it at the time.
Timely story. I'm surprised that the other networks haven't jumped on this story yet.
Age old saying... if it bleeds, it leads.
such a senseless act of violence, this freak has the gall to ask John for autograph, and John was humble enough to his fan's and gave him one..Then the freak hangs out in wait and when John comes back, he shoots him to death..What a monster!...I loved John, such a talented very wise man..We will miss him and his music forever...There are so many songs we didnt get to hear that he would have written...What a waste..We can only imagine...RIP John
So sad. Rest in Peace
Yoko cancelled his security detail and she was told that was a big mistake.
It was a mistake for John Lennon to think he can walk around freely, especially in New York City. Yes, he has that right but when you’re that famous it’s always a risk & the one time something does end up happening, it’s one time too many.
This is very true. However, Paul lives and freely walks around St John's Wood in London and often uses public transport. I have seen him many times on the London Underground going to his office in the heart of London.
I personally think Yoko was behind it..
Yoko benefited greatly from Johns death. Yoko and her boyfriend, who she remained with until his death 25 yrs later, went on such a spending spree, upon Johns death, banking policies and procedures were changed, allegedly, upon the death of a wealthy person.
Yoko spitefully withheld all of Johns personal affects and items from Julian, but was happy to sell those items to the highest bidder, thank God that was Paul McCartney on occasion... Paul had to buy Julian pieces of his father's property.
Yoko was happy to use Johns blood spattered spectacles in an "art" exhibition...
Is NOTHING sacred?
These are just a few clues... There's more, but she certainly fits the description of the Merry Widow...
As Bob Marley said, who the cap fits... 😢😢😢😢
I saw it happen in my dream in the middle of the night. First witnessed JL talking to him leaving then coming home. Briefly stopped then walked towards the apartment front door. Then saw him with gun behind saw the flashing shot s . I then jumped up in bed and shouted look out then said they've just shot JL waking my wife . Talked briefly went back to sleep. I had an old alarm clock which was set to wake us with the news at 8 o'clock in the morning. Newsreader opened up with the announcement JL has been shot dead outside his apartment in NY. We were stunned not only that he'd been murdered but my wife immediately said that i had sat up in the night and shouted what I'd witnessed. I live in Ireland. Ive never publicly stated this.
Wow, we are all connected... That is a great demonstration of collective consciousness...
It must have been very traumatic for you.. My heart goes out to you ❤
Thank you for sharing your experience ❤
So sad.there will be peace John. I will find it in myself also.❤ your music.getting close to all you dreams.
As many parents have, I raised my kids on the Beatles. When my son was 6, in casual conversation with a friend, I said something about John Lennon's murder. My son looked at me and asked, "Is John Lennon dead?" I told him, well, yes, he was killed shortly after you were born. I didn't realize that I had never told my kids about this. My son broke down crying, something I never would have expected out of a 6-year-old upon hearing this. I am now 72 and he is 43, and not since have I witnessed anything more tender, caring, and painful as how it affected my 6-year-old son.
"...his words will live forever...he represented love...what more is needed?". Mr. Johnson's words are perfectly chosen.
Thank you to all the journalists who kept us informed during that time, which I remember as if it were yesterday.
I'm 68 years old and all these years later I have tears right now..
I remember hearing this on my radio ,my brain dismissed it at first my stomach sank and then I cried.🌹🎸
Same with me Tyrone.
Well done!!
That was so shocking , so sad 😢 when it hit TV I was 11 years old .. Loves all his music still do , love Julian Lennon music ..
Life was never the same for me after this...
Im born and raised in Liverpool and literally 200 yards from my present home was Johns grandfather's first address when he came here from Ireland in the late 1890s the house is still there and so is the yard he used for his horse and coach which was his business. Next door is the Flat iron pub were apparently his wife would go to drag him home when he was late home for supper. Anfield area of Liverpool i was onlyv11 when John died but remember going to school and our English teacher miss Hamilton who was inconsolable saying her childhood idol was dead.
The Flat Iron in Tuebrook? I used to bevvy in there before and after the match in the 1980s.