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.

Still gives me chills when Howard announces it.

Liked John or not, It was a sad, sad night for the music world and its world-wide legions of fans. SHOCKING!!

@joedanache7970

3 жыл бұрын

Don't get it.

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 KZread? I know that many people would be extremely grateful!

38 years ago tonight. My family and I were watching this broadcast on TV 3 in Phoenix. RIP, John! 😥

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

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.

@kennethlatham3133

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@RichV20

2 жыл бұрын

That hostage crisis was going on Day 440. Pops wasn't missing anything new except speculation.

Thanks for this sad piece of history. Look forward to your other uploads.

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.

@hazelanderson1479

3 жыл бұрын

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.

RESPECT TO HOWARD COSELL FOR HAVING THE GUTS TO DEMAND HE ANNOUNCED IT LIVE

@nedwart

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@damianbroderick3913

2 жыл бұрын

Yeh good job Sean Lennon wasn't sat up at home watching telly ...

@mrmjb1960

2 жыл бұрын

@@damianbroderick3913 it also went against Yoko's decision to hold it until Seam was informed,but it was done.

@generalyellor8188

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@dudesweet3409

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Informative. Good job!

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 ?

@ksol1460tv

5 жыл бұрын

I've got to agree. I saw this that night. On the radio, there was nothing else on.

3:37 “Quote: ‘A local screwball.’” You’d never hear that on the news nowadays

@kevinnelson66

2 жыл бұрын

A current Seattle TV news anchor refers to criminals as "scumbags" on air.

@Jiu-JitsuJourney257

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinnelson66 good.

@RichV20

2 жыл бұрын

Geraldo should have called him the "local retard" since he was liberally using it in his report.

@RichV20

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinnelson66 circa 1980 Irv Weinstein: "Pistol Packing Punks"

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.

Thankyou i cried again xxxx

Wow, I never saw the second Cosell announcement.

He would have been 80 in oct.

i know this is out of contact but why does the Channel 3 News have the ABC News theme?

I remember that night, watching the news coverage in disbelief... a terrible night.

john lennon rock star and always an icon legend!!!!!!!!

Sad day in music world

37 years ago today ... nothing to live or die for

History here. Thank you for sharing.

@midnight5958

4 жыл бұрын

Me and my old man was watching this game in the master bedroom. It happened exactly like that.

@midnight5958

4 жыл бұрын

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

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.

Thank you very much for posting this. Will never forget John; never.

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.

We didn't hear it live. A friend called and then came over

Rest in Peace, Dear 👼. God Bless You. Peace...

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

@rassilontdavros3004

5 жыл бұрын

Mark Mullins To be fair, there was no internet back then. Things were harder to check.

@tammyphxaz

5 жыл бұрын

why doubt you,,,obviously you were there for all of it and are the leading authority on all things beatles,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,watafag

@IDF1987

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

@russellcampbell9198

4 жыл бұрын

And the difference it makes?!

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.

@tonybates7870

Жыл бұрын

I can't see the two guys from Tears For Fears. Are you sure about that?

@Tylerburnham306

Жыл бұрын

@@tonybates7870 Trust me, they're there

8:00 Wow, how terminology has changed lmfao

The Dakota was the setting for "Rosemary's Baby." Creepy

Damn shame

@jahnaroth669

7 жыл бұрын

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

@VermillionThaKid

7 жыл бұрын

Jahna Roth at least he's in a better place than this hellhole.

@jahnaroth669

7 жыл бұрын

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

@gent.6302

4 жыл бұрын

😔.

Rest in peace, John. Say hello to Charlie Watts for the rest of us.

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.

@generalyellor8188

2 жыл бұрын

"Idiotic hippie advice"? What a douche.

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.

@rockabillycat1954

4 жыл бұрын

Hard to imagine today, but Lennon's death wasn't likely deemed important enough to interrupt a national broadcast in that way.

@sediqghazalmusic5798

4 жыл бұрын

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

@DisneyStudioNetwork

4 жыл бұрын

Well Monday Night Football was almost done before the late local news then Nightline

@RichV20

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

December 8, 1980, the night the World Cried :-(

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

@RichV20

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@bufnyfan1

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@generalyellor8188

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@bufnyfan1

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

Shot two times, then three times, then four times???...

No 😭😭😭😭

"We've got to oil that gate, Diego..."

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.

3:35 THATS PUTTING IT MIDLY !!!!

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.

@P00katube

Жыл бұрын

George Harrison died at age 58 in 2001 after a long battle of throat cancer

The agony of defeat

40 Years ago, but it feels like max. 38 Years Ago

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.🤨

No better than Howard Cosell. And I wasn't even born.

a local screwball... geesh..I laughed in spite of myself :(

@ClassicRock1973

5 жыл бұрын

Screwball?? That's not appropo

@generalyellor8188

2 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicRock1973 No, what's not apropos was that he wasn't "local." He flew in from Hawaii.

Frank Gifford convinced him to say it

40 second on the clock.

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.🤨

Just a football game. Yes.

Why John?

@gent.6302

4 жыл бұрын

To be known all over the world. That piece of shit. ☠️

John met Paul before George

😪

was watching monday night football when it happened.

Terrible.. he was young. Had children… only to be gunned down by a crazy fan.

Howard was a good friend of John Lennon rip 🙏

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.

@RichV20

2 жыл бұрын

Well, it's Geraldo.

I was shocked and stunned when I heard that he was shot dead.

If you're from New York "local screwball" is sooooo New York RIP OUR BEAUTIFUL JOHN

40 years later, John Lennon is gone but Yoko Ono is still with us

GOOD VIDEO ! SUNDAY 1/1/23 JANUARY 1, 2023

Geraldo?! 🤢🤮

The dream is over.

lmao a "local screwball"????

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

@viletic

7 жыл бұрын

sr kennedy, i love u

Like 1 sub lol

@viletic

7 жыл бұрын

liked

@viletic

7 жыл бұрын

australian doesn't celebrate chinese new year then why junkraat has an emote...

@dumbshitheadass1277

7 жыл бұрын

YoImPT I'm Aussie

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Thanks for the pointless intro

I hated John Lennon I am British but I hated his song

@veziupi

8 жыл бұрын

+Dari Zane who cares mate, get ur ass fuck off outta here

@pavlebanjac1392

8 жыл бұрын

get the fuck out then

@veziupi

8 жыл бұрын

dont act like a fucking idiot. such a true keyboard hero. sucker

@jahnaroth669

7 жыл бұрын

John F Kennedy Mr Kennedy what about Lennon did you like

@jahnaroth669

7 жыл бұрын

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