(HD) December 15, 1969 John Lennon on Death Penalty hangings in Britain

[@gamma1695]

John had many different looks throughout his life. This is one of the best. Classic Lennon

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

He was a mess at this point. The drugs were taking a toll on his mental health.

[@mitchjay2108]

he was dealing with heroin or withdrawing around this time but nevertheless he looks great

[@porschefan17]

One of the cool things I notice about John Lennon is that he is such a great listener. So in tune with every conversation, that he never forgets what someone said or asked him

[@thomasc2680]

INFP trait

[@islandearthangel]

YESSS

[@Nina5144]

He was probably stoned or drunk and had to keep quiet to get his thoughts together. I admired him once but the more I hear and learn about him…..

[@Willsontime]

He was only 29. His views are very mature and realistic.

[@Carousel5883]

seriously ppl back then look older and are much more mature than anyone of the same age in the 21st century..oh maybe just certain ppl

[@smadaf]

To be fair: plenty of people half his age also oppose, and opposed, capital punishment. I was one of them.

[@allanjones6415]

Nice interview! It's very cool see how mature John was! Just a 29yo lad and very mature man for his age!

[@todddegennaro9980]

This man was wise beyond his years!

[@brannon5311]

He would be 83 now and probably catching up to just how wise he was as a twenty-something. He was a gift we had for too short a time.

[@ryan5758]

Yeah….. abusing drugs nonstop…. So wise 😂

[@robphilpott43]

@@ryan5758you know nothing.

[@Bob-hq5lj]

John looks so fucking cool here

[@danieledlin9154]

Great interview! The camera, sound, lighting…all make John look almost “modern”. He’s definitely a man of his time, but as a person who wasn’t around then, it’s great to see those brief moments of “modern” looks. Almost like he’s still out there…RIP John

[@satorified1612]

Lennon had a deep intelligence about him.

[@theshivers1967]

Oh! “Let’s at least make it public.” That’s a a good point.

[@reginaldperiwinkle]

0:28 -- "I don't even like locking people up". This is one where Yoko had more sense and has consistently fought against MDC's parole.

[@juanitarichards1074]

How ironic......

[@Eve_Y]

Wow, people from past generations physically and mentally matured faster. John, only 29, looked like he was in his late thirties and deeply understood his era's politics.

[@thewyldness]

29 but looks 36 and talks like he's 50

[@classicsounds70s]

It's like John is saying this in 2024

[@colmjulian5257]

If he had survived the shooting in 1980, he would visited Chapman in jail , and offered his forgiveness

[@brannon5311]

I sincerely believe he would have.

[@Carousel5883]

I never thought of it.i don't know JL philosophy.. but seems he might

[@JSantos-pr8ll]

Agree

[@spiderontheweb7272]

I don't know which to believe?

[@meee4217]

Doubt it

[@terryhorne2582]

Try telling that to parents who have had a child raped & then strangled, it's fine saying the death penalty is cruel & barbaric, but God forbid if something terrible happens to one of your family, you would soon change your mind.

[@MuseBySecrecy]

He’s advocating WHY people are strangled, why they are raped. Not to ignore the societal symptom after you lock people up and never think about it ever again as it’s happening all the time. Locking one person up or a million never stopped a million more being victims of violence, of murder.

[@inevski]

JL started well with Thou shalt not kill and lost his way I feel, with the *Why do you care* part.

[@smadaf]

Plenty of people whose loved ones have been so mistreated still have not thought that capital punishment should be the law. What makes _you_ so sure that _other_ people are so wrong to be sure about what _their_ views are and will be? You know total strangers better than they know themselves? Some of us don't change with the wind: that's what principles are-things that come first and override other things.

[@SkemeKOS]

​@@smadaf Only a weird lefty would not want their childs killer hanged or at the very least jailed.

[@vicentematricardi3596]

Muchas Gracias por poner Subtitulos !!!!

[@ZIMMI6969]

15th of december 1969 is the day off my birth 😊. Maybe the telly 📺 at the hospital was on and this was the first words I heard? 😊 Give peace ✌️ a chance 🙏 ✨️ ❤️

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

@fredrikbjornjohan My wife was born in 1969. January 28. I was born in `63 & I remember there were a lot of TRIALS! in December `69: Jimi HEndrix`s trial, the CHICAGO 7 TRIAL, BLACK PANTHER memeber Mark Hamptons` shooting. What a month. What a decade.

[@Relicit]

Hanratty was guilty and John was wrong.

[@zackspaulding]

I think his attitude would change these days.... even Belgium has it's chaos these days.

[@davidarmstrong1624]

Hanratty's brother fought for decades to have the verdict overturned. In 1997 a police inquiry came to the conclusion that he was wrongfully convicted but when the case was sent to the Court of Appeal it ruled that a DNA test conclusively proved his guilt beyond any doubt.

[@drstrangelove9851]

It should be noted that James Hanratty was "convicted of the murder of scientist Michael Gregsten, aged 36, who was shot dead in a car on the A6 at Deadman's Hill, near Clophill, Bedfordshire in August 1961. Gregsten's girlfriend, Valerie Storie, was raped, shot five times, and left paralysed." - from Wikipedia

[@A_M_P_]

@Dr Strangelove I live in upstate New York, only a few dozen miles from the jail cell where John's killer eats noodles and cupcakes and watches television everyday on the tax payer's dime. That POS should have been executed years ago. Remember, there are guys who can do the time. There are people out there that don't mind rotting in a prison cell watching TV the rest of their life. And some crimes are so heinous that the perpetrator has acquiesced their right to live among civilized human beings.

[@basilrose]

"Contrary to what you see on television shows, DNA testing almost never definitively says that the suspect or defendant committed the crime. DNA evidence is far more reliable to eliminate a suspect rather than to pin the blame on that person."

[@christineusher6204]

Why before shouting about Hanratty is innocent and making a fool of himself didn't he speak to Valerie Storrie.

[@AdamCortright]

First, he wasn't shouting. Second if you bothered to listen you'd know he said he wasn't sure of Hanratty's guilt or innocence. But either way he opposed his execution and was using the case as a platform to oppose capital punishment.

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

John would be 83 today. Actually the last death penalty carried out in Britain was 1964. It was suspende in 1965 and then stopped for good in 1969. By the way James Hanratty was hanged in 1962.

[@racqueteer5606]

Yeah let's not lock up rapists and murderers, fab idea Lennon :)

[@Skelevon_gaming]

His voice reminds me of obi wan kenobi from a new hope

[@yellyman5483]

I`m with John on this issue. The death penatly is a barbaric practice.

[@perkarnmusik7476]

Fennon. The real John Lennon is Gary Gibson.

[@jaelge]

Even once great songwriters have the right to their naive Liberal opinions. I love the Beatles, and learned most of what I know about music, playing, writing and recording by following them throughout the decades, (however I hate their politics).

[@KarmicSalt]

yeah no Christ like sermon on the mount....Jesus was too liberal

[@hw343434]

And you’re entitled to your conservative irrelevant opinion

[@countdown2xstacy]

Jaelge I totally agree

[@startracker5895]

Why did he care so much about psychos who can’t live in society? Staying in prison for ever isn’t logical or practical. People who do heinous crimes don’t deserve to live.

[@vladtepes3201]

Piece and love bullshit. Me and john have a similar childhood upbringing mine has made me very bitter and angry and his did not I do respect that even tho it's the complete opposite of my own thinking.

[@therealKINDLE]

Because from a purely behavioral study, psycho's, serial killers, rapists, etc. are ALL a product of society. They are made that way. What do you think the army does to kids? It Trains them to be murderers. There are NO good or bad people - humans reflect their culture. What we (Scientists) suggest is creating hospital cities where they can be supported & studied, because killing them does not restore the life they took, nor does it help with trauma, or ascertain the root cause and it certainly doesn't detract from the end product. This, or course is very hard to accept because most of the population haven't the time and patience to inquire in to the Science of the human condition. Hence why they react with hatred & antipathy.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

​@@vladtepes3201you're a cretin.

[@experi-mentalproductions5358]

@@therealKINDLE I've never heard of that 'Hospital City' idea, but after thinking about it for a bit, it actually sounds like a great idea.

[@sav0618]

29?? He look 49 NJ!

[@Anglovox]

Wonderful songwriter....but NAIVE AS HELL in so many ways!

[@countdown2xstacy]

I agree! His politics really stink.

[@SuperHuia]

Had he met Ted Bundy and witnessed his crimes, he may have changed his mind.

[@robertovalero6186]

He knew about him.Wasnt Bundy arrested and trialed before the eighties???

[@whyyoulittle4537]

They didn't hang Bundy

[@ocarwood4535]

this is the thing thoe u have completely missed his point

[@harold3165]

He's right. It solves nothing. The people who are okay with killers being killed are just as bad as the person they're condemning.

[@kevinkenny6975]

Disagree

[@newtonshiggers]

Not really mate, 4king hell.

[@lennonmccartney5749]

John Lennon use different voices in his other interviews

[@Bill-cv1xu]

I'm certain he'd be comfortable knowing MDC is still alive, maybe looking at freedom.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

No doubt, all very intellectual, but I'd like to see him after a son of his murdered.

[@Romulan2469]

True. He came from that liberal hippie upbringing so his viewpoints are hardly surprising.

[@mrsunshine6936]

@@Romulan2469 He was brought up by his Aunt Mimi, I don’t think she was a liberal hippie.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

Yes he would.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

​@@Romulan2469you're brainwashed.

[@lepetitchat123]

Mark David Chapman must have felt safe after watching this video🤣

[@KarmicSalt]

well he didn't get the death penalty did he?

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

Am curious, has John ever said anything about Ted Bundy?

[@TheYoruoto]

I totally agree with John. Even a murderer who commits a heinous crime still subconsciously wants to "live" (live to atone for his crime). The act of killing that being, as a law of action-reaction, eventually returns to "this world" (all of us) as a "chain of killings. In other words, it is a "chain of hatred," and it means that the "chain of lack of love," which is called "the will to kill," will continue forever and ever. わたしもジョンにまったく同意します。 凶悪な犯罪を犯した殺人者でさえ、潜在意識ではやはり「生きたい（生きて罪を償いたい）」と望んでいます。 その存在を殺す行為は、作用反作用の法則として、結局は"此の世界（我々すべて）"に「殺害の連鎖」として返ってくるのです。 言い換えるならば、「憎悪の連鎖」であり、「殺意と言う愛の欠如の連鎖」がいつまでも永久的に続くことを意味しています。

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

John Winston Ono Lennon nacido como John Winston Lennon (Liverpool, 09 de octubre de 1940-Nueva York, 08 de diciembre de 1980) fue un artista, músico, cantautor, actor, activista, compositor, productor, escritor y pacifista británico, conocido por ser el líder y fundador de la banda de rock The Beatles y considerado uno de los artistas más influyentes del siglo xx. 84 AÑOS 40 AÑOS 44 AÑOS SIGNO ZODIACAL DE LIBRA. ♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎♎

[@Digibeatle09]

Balls - this guy may have been a great songwriter, singer and musician but why people place any real weight on the views he expressed 60 or 70 years ago is beyond me. The song “Imagine” - as well written and sung as it was - perfectly sums up the half arsed hippy world view Lennon had !

[@ANDROLOMA]

Still can't fathom complex subjects, huh? You'll turn 10 one day, and then learn.

[@hw343434]

Relax, it’s called “IMAGINE”. It’s an exercise, Open your mind

[@sethrogaine]

yucky yoko years

[@klinesmith5415]

❤️❤️❤️🐈

[@nutonchocolate4484]

The ORIGINAL version of Ronnie McNutt

[@experi-mentalproductions5358]

Coz' he has a beard? What are you talking about?

[@jamesmckean3221]

Even prison is barbaric.

[@kevinkenny6975]

Oh come on. What's the alternative?

[@TheGuitarRiot]

Just imagine your own child murdered. You would want some revenge on the asshole who had done it, wouldn't you? So all the hippy talk is fine, but let's be realistic. Murderers should not be walking out there just like they'd done nothing wrong.

[@sagiriizumi8079]

Iroooooooooony

[@user-hx6hv4sg6p]

I thought he didnt believe in god

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

Lennon may have not been for killing, he was A-OK with beating his first wife with in an inch of her life. Thank goodness social policy won't be determined by him. He should maybe speak expertly on music.

[@SamSam-rs8mo]

He didint beat his wife within an inch of her life you stupid fucking loon

[@naeemakhtar928]

He never beat his wife within an inch of her life you bullshitter

[@OCTOBERBABY7901]

He didn't beat her up, but he slapped her once while in art college. That was it.

[@gothickingmongoose3028]

Are you dense? He slapped her once when he was young and felt remorse. He didn't "beat her within an inch of her life". Clown.

[@startracker5895]

@@OCTOBERBABY7901 that’s enough! 🙄

[@U.T.P.]

"Free Mark Chapman!" -John Lennon

[@Romulan2469]

I don't think a wife beater was best qualified to be answering questions on whether the death penalty is appropriate or not. Also given his liberal leanings I would imagine if he were alive today he would want Mark David Chapman to go free, a hardly ideal situation. It's sad he was murdered by that psycho and his music was great however his political beliefs aren't really all that interesting to me.

[@harold3165]

You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about and it's hilarious watching you talk utter nonsense in such a matter of fact way.

[@gothickingmongoose3028]

It's false. He didn't beat his wives.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

He didn't beat his wife.

[@BeatlesCentricUniverse]

Romulan2469 Your comment isn't really all that interesting to me.

[@bobwoolerOriGinal]

He never beat his wife.

[@kavalere]

Yet John beat his women, and was very violent when he was intoxicated.

[@ANDROLOMA]

He admitted that, and probably didn't do it often. Stupid that people like you are so weak they need to keep bringing it up.