John Lennon's Death - 12.08.80 - A Television News Chronology
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- This is my compilation video of the news reports concerning the murder of John Lennon, Monday night, December 8th, 1980. I had just purchased a Sony Betamax SL-5200 video cassette recorder a few months before this tragic event. I was recording the Monday Night Football game being broadcast on ABC TV and my local ABC affiliate, KTVK, channel 3, in Phoenix, AZ.
The first "breaking news" bulletin was delivered on ABC TV's Monday Night Football game between the New England Patriots at the Miami Dolphins. Play-by-play announcer, Frank Gifford, told his sidekick, Howard Cosell, to tell America what they already knew in the booth.
After the game, our local affiliate, KTVK, channel 3, Phoenix, AZ, led with the story with news anchor, Dave Nichols, reporting. Next, was ABC News Nightline, hosted by Ted Koppel. Included in the Nightline broadcast were reports by Rose Ann Scamardella, Geraldo Rivera and Lynn Sherr.
In the days to come, I will be uploading all the videos which I recorded the next day, Tuesday, Dec. 9th, 1980, presenting all the news coverage of Lennon's murder, including all the coverage on ABC TV's "Good Morning America", with host David Hartman, the NBC Nightly News coverage, featuring news anchor, John Chancellor, and an NBC news special which aired at 11:30 pm EST, "John Lennon: The Man and His Music", hosted by Jane Pauley.
I was 12 and awake in bed when I heard my father call my 18 year old sister to the living room. She immediately started crying. My oldest brother, 26, considered travelling from our home in Louisiana to New York for the memorial. Such a tragic loss to the the world. He was one of a kind.
Liked John or not, It was a sad, sad night for the music world and its world-wide legions of fans. SHOCKING!!
Don't get it.
Still gives me chills when Howard announces it.
38 years ago tonight. My family and I were watching this broadcast on TV 3 in Phoenix. RIP, John! 😥
The memories of this horrible day are these:
1) Being called by a co worker who told me that Howard Cosell just announced on Monday Night Football that John Lennon had died. I thought that she was joking around but then I turned on the game and heard it for myself.
2) My dad was LIVID that the drug taking Beatle ended coverage of the hostage crisis. As if he cared.
That last one pissed me off so much that I left the house for a couple of days. He was still angry but I think he understood my sadness.
Wow. That must have compounded the sadness for you, having denigrating remarks made against John at a time best left to reverence and mournful reflection. I am sorry you had to go through that. Thanks for sharing.
That hostage crisis was going on Day 440. Pops wasn't missing anything new except speculation.
RESPECT TO HOWARD COSELL FOR HAVING THE GUTS TO DEMAND HE ANNOUNCED IT LIVE
Actually, Cosell was initially reluctant to break the news during the football game. It was his colleague Frank Gifford who convinced Cosell to make the announcement.
Yeh good job Sean Lennon wasn't sat up at home watching telly ...
@@damianbroderick3913 it also went against Yoko's decision to hold it until Seam was informed,but it was done.
He didn't "demand it." There's a clip of him speaking to the other two announcers, expressing doubts about whether to announce it, and Frank Gifford adamantly told him he had to. Get your facts straight before you SCREAM YOUR RESPONSE.
You can watch it on ESPN OTL John Lennon. You can listen to the audio of Frank Gifford telling Howard Cosell to tell the world about John Lennon.
I was in Phoenix as well and that was the first broadcast for me to see as I was slowly going into shock. Did not sleep for nearly 3 days. Am back to Phoenix now. This horror remains One Of The Top Ten Life Changing Events Of My Life. 😟 I had bought Double Fantasy six hours earlier.. Still makes me cry
3:37 “Quote: ‘A local screwball.’” You’d never hear that on the news nowadays
A current Seattle TV news anchor refers to criminals as "scumbags" on air.
@@kevinnelson66 good.
Geraldo should have called him the "local retard" since he was liberally using it in his report.
@@kevinnelson66 circa 1980 Irv Weinstein: "Pistol Packing Punks"
Thanks for the upload! It was especially interesting to see a clip of KTVK's 10 PM news from 1980.
As you may know, clips of KTVK's news from the station's ABC era (pre-1994) are very rare. If you have any more in your collection, may I ask you to consider adding them to CZcams? I know that many people would be extremely grateful!
I can't believe the errors. for example, John did not meet George a year before meeting Paul. The news casters at the time didn't know their stuff.
I’m guessing that, because John Lennon’s death was so unexpected, the news networks were caught on the hop and had little time to research the facts.
40 years ago today and feels like yesterday...
10:51 Turn down the lights, get yourself in a dark room and believe it's 1980. Lynn Sherr gives you an uncanny example of what it felt like. It creeps the hell out of you doesn't ?
I've got to agree. I saw this that night. On the radio, there was nothing else on.
Thanks for this sad piece of history. Look forward to your other uploads.
WNEW FM's Scott Muni also broke the news on the radio and played Imagine while sobbing.
This is how I found out about it I was 17 sophomore high School huge Beatles fan, due to my four older siblings I was five in a seven children family I remember it like yesterday still breaks my heart.
He would have been 80 in oct.
Informative. Good job!
john lennon rock star and always an icon legend!!!!!!!!
37 years ago today ... nothing to live or die for
I remember that night, watching the news coverage in disbelief... a terrible night.
Thankyou i cried again xxxx
Wow, I never saw the second Cosell announcement.
You can imagine how shocking it was that one of the Beatles has just been shot and killed was. We grew up with them and all of a sudden we have the image of him getting shot and struggling for his life and then gone.
i know this is out of contact but why does the Channel 3 News have the ABC News theme?
Sad day in music world
Thank you very much for posting this. Will never forget John; never.
8:00
Wow, how terminology has changed lmfao
RIP John!💔
Rest in peace John! Wasn't alive yet but it's sad that he got murdered and it's interesting to see TV News coverage.
There was one player in the entire National Football League that was born in England on 12-08-80 when Lennon was shot dead.
What are the odds that he would be on screen the moment Howard Cossell announced Lennon's death?
Furthermore, what are the odds that the kickers first name would also be John.
John Smith kicked for the Patriots for a decade and even made a pro bowl.
History here. Thank you for sharing.
Me and my old man was watching this game in the master bedroom. It happened exactly like that.
Also Nightline was a new show back then . It came on after the local news. Back then the news was just 30 minutes...weather and sports at the end
Why the fuck did this ever have to happen ? John Lennon got killed for no damn good reason. John Lennon should still be alive giving idiotic hippie advice on how to live longer at the age of 76. But some ridiculous bastard ruined that for us.
"Idiotic hippie advice"? What a douche.
Rest in Peace, Dear 👼.
God Bless You. Peace...
We didn't hear it live. A friend called and then came over
I FOUND SOMETHING AGAIN! At the very end of the reporter at the hospital's video, the camera zooms out, there to her left you see Curt Smith and Roland Orzbal from the band Tears for Fears. At the time, the 2 men had looked like that but the band was broken up at the time.
I can't see the two guys from Tears For Fears. Are you sure about that?
@@tonybates7870 Trust me, they're there
Rest in peace, John. Say hello to Charlie Watts for the rest of us.
The Dakota was the setting for "Rosemary's Baby." Creepy
5:19 He met George Harrison in 1958, Yes that is true but he didn't meet Paul McCartney in 1959 after he met Harrison, he met Paul in July 1957 and he met George through Paul in February 1958.... Jesus, get your facts right lady
Mark Mullins
To be fair, there was no internet back then. Things were harder to check.
why doubt you,,,obviously you were there for all of it and are the leading authority on all things beatles,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,watafag
@@tammyphxaz Well it would have been hard to record "In Spite of all the Danger" with Paul in 1958 if he didn't meet him until 1959
And the difference it makes?!
December 8, 1980, the night the World Cried :-(
Tomorrow never knows?.
when the news came over from America to Britain nobody had any idea that JHON was dead i was only 7 years old when the big news came over from the USA , and even now we all miss him never met him but i do remember the news from all over the world just shocked us all
Damn shame
Drake McMillian I remember that morning it was terrible very tragic for us here apparently he is still very controversial I think he would have liked that and his retort about the Kremlin in back in the USSR was priceless
Jahna Roth at least he's in a better place than this hellhole.
Drake McMillian according to some death is just another place I believe he is aware of all of us and remember you can always ignore the ignorant keep looking elsewhere I am a survivor and so are you if this were not true how would you know the difference between horrific and so darned beautiful like our babies and fine wine ma cher
😔.
"We've got to oil that gate, Diego..."
Shot two times, then three times, then four times???...
I would have thought that "Nightline" host Ted Koppel would have delivered that flash from Washington, between plays, with Frank Gifford saying "We're going to break away for a moment for an ABC News Special Report, with Ted Koppel live from Washington".
Then after Koppel's flash,. they could have returned to the game.
Hard to imagine today, but Lennon's death wasn't likely deemed important enough to interrupt a national broadcast in that way.
I totally agree .
That’s the least that they could have done . John Lennon was the greatest icon of the 20th century ! God bless his soul
Well Monday Night Football was almost done before the late local news then Nightline
The news was literally breaking in the ABC News department. Howard only announced because it was finally confirmed. MNF was usually the most watched program of the week. And he announced before the final play in regulation. If it was in the first quarter or something, I could see a newsbreak. The game wouldve been over in a minute if the field goal was made and it would have gone straight to localnews and Nightline 30 minutes. Howard was just the man in the booth and could call it right there. Ted wouldve needed 5-10 minutes, so might as well wait 30 minutes for his Nightline to make it official.
No better than Howard Cosell. And I wasn't even born.
40 second on the clock.
40 Years ago, but it feels like max. 38 Years Ago
Frank Gifford convinced him to say it
The agony of defeat
I found something again! If you watch the beginning of the lady outside the hospital, in front of the man who looks like Paul, there's a man that looks like George Harrison. It looks like almost all of the Beatles were behind the reporter.🤨
John couldn't have been any nicer to Chapman. After signing his album he asked, "do you want anything else?" He could've just ignored Chapman altogether, yet he took the time to show his gratitude to a "fan". It's said that Chapman inspired John Hinkley to shoot Reagan three months later.
I first heard of John Lennon death on a movie called imagine on lifetime then I saw the monday night football footage on yt and learned thats how the US knew about Lennon death more than 5 years after sean was born and during the year he turned 40. Earlier in the day a picture of Lennon hugging yoko naked was taken before it was published in rolling stone to promote the hit album double fantasy which did ok before the tragedy and since then became a huge hit. 21 years later George Harrison died of old age and we still have Ringo and Paul alive. One or two of them might be gone but the music will still be alive for generations to come. The killer is still alive and has been denied parole.
George Harrison died at age 58 in 2001 after a long battle of throat cancer
When that one reporter was outside the hospital, the two people behind her kinda looked like Paul and John. Although Paul looks like what he did when they made the Sgt. Peppers album. John looks like what he did when they made the rooftop album years before.🤨
3:35 THATS PUTTING IT MIDLY !!!!
No 😭😭😭😭
always wondered why the news division of ABC news didn't break into the game with a news bulletin (like NBC did) with the announcement--Howard Cosell got many of the details of the shooting wrong and the game could have been delayed until after the bulletin was over
The announcement came on the last play of regulation where the game might have been decided. The news was literally breaking because there was an ABC journalist in the same ER due to injuries that evening. That's how ABC had the scoop. Ted Koppel at least had an hour. The local news had half-hour notice and even that looked disorganized.
@@RichV20 CNN was in its infancy (I believe it went on the air the previous summer)-I doubt it was available in that many homes in 1980--always wondered what their coverage of this would have been like
You're clueless. Gifford was right; they confirmed it, so he demanded that Cosell announce it. And this was minutes after the shooting, so no one had definitive answers to any of the details. And what irony that you even mention Cosell getting "many of the details wrong" when you spelled his name wrong.
@@generalyellor8188 Cosell did make many mistakes--and YOU"RE the one who is clueless--and ABC could have had the news department announce his death (as NBC did) without mentioning details that were later proven inaccurate
Just a football game. Yes.
John met Paul before George
Why John?
To be known all over the world. That piece of shit. ☠️
a local screwball... geesh..I laughed in spite of myself :(
Screwball?? That's not appropo
@@ClassicRock1973 No, what's not apropos was that he wasn't "local." He flew in from Hawaii.
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If you're from New York "local screwball" is sooooo New York RIP OUR BEAUTIFUL JOHN
Howard was a good friend of John Lennon rip 🙏
Terrible.. he was young. Had children… only to be gunned down by a crazy fan.
I was shocked and stunned when I heard that he was shot dead.
Geraldo's take is ugly example of shift to modern journalism. Lennon has just died, and Geraldo starts dredging up controversy and negative takes on John Lennon. Yuck.
Well, it's Geraldo.
GOOD VIDEO ! SUNDAY 1/1/23 JANUARY 1, 2023
40 years later, John Lennon is gone but Yoko Ono is still with us
The dream is over.
bad enough we lose Lennon but to have to listen to that gasbag Geraldo is insult to injury.
Wow I don't know wow to spell ur name is complecated
sr kennedy, i love u
Geraldo?! 🤢🤮
lmao a "local screwball"????
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Thanks for the pointless intro
I hated John Lennon I am British but I hated his song
+Dari Zane who cares mate, get ur ass fuck off outta here
get the fuck out then
dont act like a fucking idiot. such a true keyboard hero. sucker
John F Kennedy Mr Kennedy what about Lennon did you like
John F Kennedy I suppose if I was her son I wouldn't like the kind either but Cynthia was a beautiful woman who had a beautiful boy too and that's what I remember most he was the first beautiful boy I love you Mr Kennedy stay focused
was watching monday night football when it happened.