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- On December 8, 1980, former Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed outside his home at The Dakota in Manhattan. The shocking news plunged millions of fans around the world into mourning. From the Eyewitness News Vault, here is Channel 7’s original coverage. Do you remember where you were when the news broke?
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I was 9 years old and remember my mother crying. I thought somebody in our family had died.
My dad is in this report! He was working at the Grand Hyatt Hotel the night John Lennon died, and is playing guitar from 2:59-3:01. So cool!
That is pretty cool.
I am in the report too, I am the queen ant who was sitting on the reporter's shoulder in Manhattan..🤭🤭💃🏻💃🏻🐜🐜🐜🐜🏭🗽
@@TheKonga88 so cringe “queen ant”
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@Adrián Sebastián Lin it’s not a joke bro. She’s probably a kid who thinks this is cool. I was just trying to tell her that it isn’t. You’d be surprised at how cringy little girls can be.
I was 19 years old, and living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and remember this day as if it happened today.
Now you are 59 😳 it make too much time.
I remember it as if it was 40 years ago..LMMFAO
I always wondered why so many fans were so heartbroken when Lennon died, someone they didn't know, I found out exactly why when Kobe Bryant died in 2020, now I fully understand
2021 and I still cried...
I remember all through the late seventies the American government was trying to get Lennon kicked out of the USA , my first thought was . Well they’ve done it .
We didn't mean it😭😭
He was a great man and what would the world be if John and George were here today
,there would be Beatles reunions every 5 years. ..
I was 11, in the bathroom getting ready for school. One of my older sisters banged on the door and said John Lennon was killed last night. I was in shock. Since a toddler, I played Beatles records, and I still do.
Yeah, I didn't find out till the next day, the 9th. I cried!
R.i.p John Lennon 1940-1980
I just can't believe he's been gone 40 years it just can't be real! RIP John✌♥️!!!
I was born roughly ten years after John's death, but I miss this man so much. Can't imagine all the pain people experienced back in the 80s.
I was only 13 and my older brother had just bought John's "Just Like Starting Over" 45 single. We'd only lost Elvis 1977. It was a lot of heartbreak for us young kids to take on.
i was born in 1996 but john lennon did not disserved to die
Next year, December 8, 2020, will be 40 years. Whatever tribute we design will be inadequate.
how is thatJeanna Dysart ?
This is the year man, i'll cry when the day comes. He was killed before he even knew him.
John was 40 years plus 2 months minus 1 day old at his death. If you add that length of time to December 8, 1980, you arrive at February 7, 2021. It also, coincidentally, marks the 57th anniversary of The Beatles arriving in New York for their first American visit. On February 7, 2021 John will have been absent from our lives for the exact length of time he was on this earth.
I agree. Any tribute will be In adequate
6 days after im 16 :(
41 years ago today! I didn't find out until the next day, the 9th. I went numb. I lived through Beatlemania.
I grew up listening to his music as a young child bc my aunt would play his music to help me take naps. Such a tragedy. I was 17 yrs old when he taken away from us. RIP JOHN🙏♥
John Lennon. What great talent. He gave us awesome music to listen to. Gone to soon. Rest In Peace John we will see you again in the plan. !!!!!
42 Years On Never Forgotten RIP John Lennon 1940-1980 Aged 40 💔
I was only 9 years old, and didn't know anything about this. I had the 45 "Let It Be," but didn't know how big the Beatles were. It would've been such a shock if I was older. He was taken from us way too early. Just imagine the greatness we would've had in the 80's & beyond. 40 years later, the nut is still in prison.
May Chapmans voice never be heard, and he never again see the light of day.
He shouldn't be getting the extended visiting rights he gets. A slap in the face to Lennon and his family.
I feel bad about myself whenever I think this but I just can't help it, especially since he admitted he knew that what he was doing was evil (and Im not even religious), and I also feel bad because this is the opposite of John Lennon's message, but still: May he rot in jail and burn in hell.
I talked with one of my wiser friends, and he put something in my head thats got me thinking. Lennon had a philosophy of a different way of living, a more peaceful way. And the government brought chapman in to kill him.
Elvis died in 1977. three years after, John Lennon was killed in 1980.
RIP to the greatest rock 'n roll era. 🎸
This video has 0 dislikes. Words can't describe the sadness of the world without John.
It has 40 dislikes now. The exact age of Lennon when he died.
I can remember that night. It was a shock to me and I was asking why someone would kill John Lennon??? The shooter must have been a crazy person.
Me too. My brother and I were sitting in my room listening to a football game and playing a board game or cards when Howard Cosell reported about it. I was so upset. He really meant a lot to me and I was a big Beatles fan. I did a memorial painting of him just after. Still feeling the same effect of his suddenly being gone from us to this day.
@@SheilaLS I was watching football that night too. I believe it was Monday Night football when Howard Cosell told of John Lennon being shot, rushing him to the Hospital in a police car and he died. It was a total shock to me. I'll always remember that night.
@@paulmcwilliams1709 Something fundamentally shifted in the world that night and for me it's not felt right ever since.
@@SheilaLS The world got darker....
It was happening 40 years ago this minute
R I P
I was watching Monday Night Football when Howard Cosell announced John Lennon’s death.
No one cares
@@peterzebot9863 I do., I just so happened to be also watching a football gm wen I heard the announcer say that Kobe died
I was living in Kansas, going to graduate school, when I got a call from my mother to tell me. I remember standing there in my kitchen, stunned, not knowing what to say or think.
Chilling video!
R.I.P. John Lennon, R.i.P Gil Noble R.I.P. John Slattery,
Mom and I were watching Lou Grant when the story broke on CBS that he'd been shot, around 10:50 p.m. They reported the death at 11:15, about ten minutes before Cosell on MNF.
The fact that Yoko told their 5 year old his father was shot and took him to the crime scene further supports the hatred for her.
No it doesn't, where are you getting this from?
What state of mind do you expect her to be in after what happened? An emotionally charged one or a calm, stable, rational one? No one wants to cut her any slack. Fine. Don't.
@notThatBad411 I think both Halliday and Unwin were used as doubles for Lennon & McCartney back in the day. Lennon wasnt murdered. Read Miles Mathis - John Lennon, he explains how this story of Lennon being shot is pure BS.
@notThatBad411 I'll look more into the halliday/unwin guys. 👍
@notThatBad411 I watched that video ystdy. Went back to look for ur comments like u said. I didn't see them. Maybe MW deleted them?
the murder of John Lennon served no purpose no purpose what so ever
Oh wow, I've stayed at that YMCA. Definitely somewhere a person like MDC would stay.
me too, though in those days i was known as hong kong phuey (had a wet fish van) you might have met me before
I stayed at the YMCA at west 63rd.
why is the part at 1:27 muted
I was in my senior year in HS. when news of John L murder was announced....
and we'll all shine on, like the Moon and the stars and the Sun
Thank you, Alan Weiss.
It 3 minutes it will be exactly 40 years since John Lennon was shot...
Wow I read this just now
He was cremated almost immediately.
Really cool to see WPLJ. Nice of them to play Lennon all day.
I remember this as if it were yesterday.
6th grade 1980.
Me too! 41 years today!
@notThatBad411 John Lemon..........
Elvis, Bon Scott, Ian Curtis, John Bonham, John, Bob Marley & Marvin Gaye, 1977-84 we lost them all in those years.
& John Denver
Keith Moon
Yo shout out to that guy that said mom Oml 30+ years later still the same energy around news cameras ong
I was born on the eve 2 years after John Lennon was dead. To this day, John is still a legend.
Announced by Howard Cosell on Monday Night football. Dec 8, 1980. Dolphins beat Patriots in overtime 16-13.
How sad
That was one of the saddest days of my life..
I was too young to remember when he died, but man do i love john Lennon. He was all about love , and thats what we need.. love 😥
Sounds like you've have a pretty great carefree life then...If the death of a person you literally didn't know death...if the saddest day of you life. Wow...you've had it good
@@Aaliyahchannel2024on the contrary, it seems that you have a fairly shallow view on the affectation of loss. You have to personally know someone for the sadness to count? How about growing up with someone’s art, loving it…feeling it as the soundtrack to a large chunk of your life. And then of course the excitement around what that artist is going to create moving forward….losing all that is terribly sad. You’ve got it easy, only mourning those that you know personally. I guess 9/11 was just another happy day for you, didn’t know any victims personally so just another peachy day.
@@jordanberry5070 Waaaaah Waaaah
@@Aaliyahchannel2024 I love that George Harrison song
The day the music died... again.
N this is why celebrities hire bodyguards now
If johnhadlived 5 years more his legend would be even larger..world tour and 5 more albums..
I would have loved to see it
@@ItsameAlex And Beatles reunion at Ringo's wedding 1981......I'll never ger over it....
What the media didn't know at the time was that Mark David Chapman was a late 20-something year old nobody in the late 1970's who served as a volunteer at a refugee rescue organization called 'World Vision', founded in 1950, and he was a future mind-controlled patsy set up by a secret C.I.A.-funded assassins training camp that was established by devouted C.I.A. lifer, George H.W. Bush, at World Vision's Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas facility. And it get's even better,.......care to know who was on the Board Of Directors for World Vision at that time? : John Warnock Hinkley, Sr.,.....father of the alleged Reagan assassin. The Bush's and Hinkley's were next-door neighbors in Houston. Mark Chapman and John Hinlkey, Jr. are the same age as each other. I couldn't possibly make this stuff up.
They were both born in may 1955 and were obsesed with catcher and the rye pretty weird
my mom was born on 12 nov 1980 before john was shot
hey nice last name
this is a great tragedy to this day !! 2022
I was 17, and was in Air Force basic training , and was in bed getting ready to go to sleep, when about ten o'clock my time in San Antonio, I had this feeling that something was really wrong. I had no idea what happened to make me feel like that, but the next morning I saw the morning paper and it had John's name in a green box in the upper right side of the page and I knew he was dead. I didn't know how or why, but I KNEW he died. A few hours later, some guy told me about it. I was stunned.
It was my 3rd birthday and my parents found out about his murder watching Monday Night Football.
He should have stayed in England; he would have lived. I've always believed that. I could be wrong, but that's my view.
Was that Travolta?
I was 6yrs old.. I remember my father cursing at the TV when the news broke.. I didn't know what was going on. Btw The Dakota is a portal or cursed/haunted af!
news theme also used by channel nine Australia n the 1980's and 90's
❤️😔
Steven king killed this man
sure did..
🙏
The #1 haunting question that remains : COULD THAT TRAGEDY HAVE BEEN PREVENTED⁉️ 💙🌹💜
Yes, lots of people were wary of him around the Dakota...
@@knockedoutloaded279 Indeed so. He had been “stalking” John Lennon from afar for a while. He claimed that he heard voices telling him to murder Lennon. It’s utterly appalling. The guy was out of his mind and should have been committed to a psychiatric ward years before he could reach his victim. To this day, I believe deep down that the tragedy could have been prevented.
@@knockedoutloaded279 Best regards to you, Jason.
Chapmans wife knew of his intention and he'd been to New York earlier in the year and she knew he was going back and never thought about alerting the authorities, she could've stopped this happening, no idea why she never
@@Graeme726 As many others, she knew he was sick and was a threat either to himself or to others. He had been committed in the past. Don’t people understand the notions of liability, accountability, responsibility?
What kind of a mother would bring a child to show him where his father was killed? Unbelievable. She must have been on drugs.
We are talking about Yoko here, she's a little different than the rest of us.
whats wrong with that
A BLAST: Just like a THUNDERBOLT
A flame between the shoulders
As ground rush up to meet me face
A thought: "Now this is odd...
'I'm SHOT' sez I, (for, yes I was)
T'was not as I'd IMAGINED...
As mortal body hit the deck
I thought: "I'm meeting GOD"...
The rush of footsteps all about
(Poor agitated Mother...)
My lifeblood quickly running out
Preparing for another
I suddenly was up above
And looking down at LENNON
Who looked so frail and waifish
Amongst the folks who gathered
Half-in and more than halfway out
Already on The Way...
Tho' still some life left in the lad
He simply cannot stay
And like a giant ragdoll,
Removed quickly from the scene
Traffic lights - the noise of Life
Of fellow Human Beans
"LENNON" is what they all cried:
John Lennon Lennon Lennon...
As I hovered up above
My old name echoed and repeated
"Save Him - We Must Save Him" -
In their thoughts and energy
As if LENNON were the Ticket To Salvation
It really was astounding
Quite the spectacle, my friends
And I marveled at their wild DETERMINATION
The white walls of the hospital
The stark wails of the fans
The sadness of His family
And His friends
Yet YONDER now was beckoning
And the wonder of it all
As remembering:
"Ah! We BEGIN AGAIN..."
With JOY, remembered: WE DON'T DIE!
It all came rushing through
Embraced in Father-Mother's Love
Knew We had God's work
To do.
And now mere words elude Him
Yes, Wordsmith Wonder Lennon
Except for one: A Signpost
Accompanied by a Song
And brightly lit
By a single Star:
"LENA."
👁❤🌟
What i dont undetstand why didnt he have a body gurad?? Great man he will always be a 40 yearold
“I don’t need a bodyguard, nobody bothers me here”
- John days before his death
@@raymondnguyen5813 ok i didnt know john lennon said that hun
He did have bodyguards..
I was 11 months old
hey who's here rn
I was in bed listening to my radio on headphones and I sat up in bed totally in shock after hearing that John Lennon was shot to death.
Only 24 hours remember in Mexico when they killed this singer they had his music over 5 months straight
It’s 100 years later and
John should have had security.
On the day He was Shot i was planning to buy His new record
the world is still in chaos john srry i promise to conclude ur minds mission
Drama!
here's a man nowhere safe !! like that no-man's-house Chapman there are so many !!!!
CBS broke the story first.
Roseanne Rosanna Danna !
lmao
Never, ever forget it. Like JFK, MLK.
lullaby for babies to go to sleep
Killed by CIA
Actually,.....you are correct. Mark David Chapman was an early 20-something year old nobody in the late 1970's who served as a volunteer at a refugee rescue organization called 'World Vision', founded in 1950, and he was mind-controlled by a secret C.I.A.-funded assassins training camp set up at World Vision's Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas facility that was established by none other than George H.W. Bush. And it get's even better,.......care to know who was on the Board Of Directors for World Vision at that time? : John Warnock Hinkley, Sr.,.....father of the alleged Reagan assassin. The Bush's and Hinkley's were next-door neighbors in Houston. Mark Chapman and John Hinlkey, Jr. are the same age as each other. I couldn't possibly make this stuff up.
John Lennon was a man who was greatly over rated by all the hype. The Beatles had some catchy tunes and John had a couple good lyrics, but he wasn't all that.
Well...the truth is that music before the Beatles arrived on the scene was pretty desperate. The changes popular music for ever. Suddenly singers were writing their own songs and not relying on the Brill Music Factory to supply them. That was a good thing. Music...pop music...was stale before the Beatles arrived on the scene. It was exactly the right time for them and their charm was welcomed all over the world. And thank God for that.
Wow...this is huge if true.
Someone else would have shot John,if mark didn't kill him.