John Lennon Murder Coverage

[@peterjfeld]

I'm in this video, in aviator glasses next to the woman being interviewed at 4:37. They asked me right after her but I couldn't speak in the harsh floodlight, I just shook my head. RIP John.

[@el34glo59]

Holy shit

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

John Lennon was my favorite Beatle. I’m so curious about what the scene in front of the Dakota was like. Can you elaborate a little more on that night? Did you see or hear anything prior to the murder? How did you first hear of this tragedy? Thanks in advance 🙏

[@peterjfeld]

@user-uo3nw7xr1y I got a phone call from a friend telling me the news, I turned on the radio to hear that it was true but didn't feel like listening. I threw on a light jacket, it was a crazy 65° out, you can see folks were very lightly dressed for 1 or 2 am in December. If it hadn't been so warm maybe Chapman wouldn't have hung out all evening, I thought later. I walked the 50 blocks from my apartment near Columbia down to the Dakota and saw the big crowd. I looked at the entrance and thought about what had just happened there and how it would change our lives. I chatted with people like the woman who was interviewed, Beatles and Lennon music was playing from some car, #9 Dream I remember. But then by 3am the crowd became rowdy and the mood started to turn ugly, my friends decided to leave. I bought the new Playboy issue with John and Yoko's big interview and read it sitting on the stairs of the 72nd St. subway waiting for the uptown 1 train.

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

@@peterjfeld wow thank you for sharing. Sounds like an incredible moment given the circumstances

[@AnaFerreira-h4k]

❤

[@musiclover3205]

It still hurts 39 years later. RIP John

[@RTA6226]

It sure does Music Lover. Now it's 40 years. 😥😪😭

[@musiclover3205]

@@RTA6226 I cry every year. It is still so heartbreaking 40 years later. It always will be.

[@BeeMags]

42 years later.

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

I feel the same. The shock was so excruciatingly intense, I was in denial I think because I just couldn’t believe it.

[@harold3165]

43 years later.

[@karazimsabour7899]

"The overweight fan" hahahaha

[@el34glo59]

Lol

[@DaveSmith-fg1zt]

He was a fatty

[@moirapettifr7127]

I had to work the next day and no one could work. We just sat there stunned, listening to a radio someone brought in.

[@scottburton9701]

What a horrible event this was!

[@colinwilliams553]

It's JOHN ROLAND, the anchorman for the Channel 5 local news back when it was WNEW.great memories.Unfortunitly, he would deliver the sad, horrible news that JOHN LENNON was shot and killed outside his apartment building.From him to Howard Cosell to almost every news person who would deliver the tradgic news. R.I.P, John Lennon I wish you were here with us.

[@osagiee.guobadia-secondytc4624]

People are sad that the Beatles main singer John Lennon died. 😞☹️🥺😭

[@richga]

I was 7 years old. I was watching this on TV and parents had just decided to divorce, they were crying in the kitchen as I watched the report. Awful awful day

[@JamesDeanRivera]

It's a young John Roland

[@adlofheltirchiefadvisortot40]

theres a lot of nutjobs out there

[@ziggymorris8760]

I haven’t seen this 5 o’clock news opening in a long time!

[@tyrese3745]

It wasn’t a 5:00 newscast. WNYW Fox 5 (formerly WNEW-TV) only had the 10:00pm news at that time.

[@sambradley2975]

I remember watching this. It was Channel 5 that I was watching when I heard that John Lennon was assassinated.

[@TravelandHipHop]

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” -John Lennon 🕊

[@stephenhuvane707]

Miller's reporting was the best for this terrible event.

[@TheHeavensFellen]

The Rockefeller Center was lit up, how fitting, Lennon actually sang in song Attica State, ";Rockefeller (Nelson) pulled the trigger, that is what the people feel" On Attica state prison riots. the prisoners did not kill, Lennon was right!!

[@Kevin-zz9nc]

I really felt for Julian. It was difficult for us fans to process God knows what it was like for him. The father he had barely known was gone forever. I think it was one of the children of the Mamas and the Papas who said that fame was like a thief who stole everything of value in your life. Sadly he never lived to see the world live as one.....

[@rockylombardo6978]

I remember it like yesterday watch a Monday night football Howard cosell broke the news just terrible

[@lenalennon8746]

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." 👁❤🌟

[@grainfrizz]

Audio is like the mixing of Beatles' drum tracks. Only in left channel.

[@respecttheface7152]

Boredom brought me here

[@darealtrxnchtv8773]

Respect The Face Curiosity Brought Me

[@DonnaLombardo-n5i]

Dodo

[@franciswelsh1587]

😢

[@88mphsss]

Does anyone know who the guy is at 3:18?

[@grainfrizz]

Garry F. Morris

[@riorio5052]

Overweight fan!

[@wendywebster5920]

Thanks for posting one of the original broadcast of John Lennon's death. The statement given by the Official was a bit different, than the witnesses were saying (shot 1 of the 5 bullets in the front? Or all in the back?). And why were John and Yoko dropped of at the front of the building, and not in the secure courtyard? And it was at night, so you would think they had the sense to drive in first. Why did they decide to move John (the police) - then shot and wounded - in one of their own "radio" cars (I presume this is just a normal police car and not one of their vans?) instead of waiting for an ambulance? Knowing (if you are trained with basic First Aid) that 5 big wounds, bleeding, this would spell certain death, when they still had a chance to prolong life, if they would attempt to stop the bleeding and wait for the ambulance? I am not a conspiracy theorist, just interested in the story, and just asking questions. Is it just incompetents of the police, not being trained enough in first aid at the time? Or was it meant to be that John had to go, and not just solely by a crazy fan? After all, throughout (recent) history, so many "good people" were murdered or suddenly died. You can't help wondering .... what if....

[@stephenhuvane707]

A very good movie you should watch is "The Lennon Report." The officers have always stated that an ambulance was about ten minutes away and to give him a fighting chance they put him in the back of the patrol car and raced to the hospital. He most likely was dead before they made it to the hospital.

[@TheHeavensFellen]

Wendy, keep looking and you nay find out facts like the doorman that night was a Jose Perdomo, AKA SanJenis, he by his own admission to Chapman was involved in the Bay of Pigs, and a researcher took this tip and looked him up and turns out to be likely same man who was involved in a squad called Operation 40, they were guerilla fighters in Cuba. Linked to a Frank Sturgis, who also was a Watergate burglar, but see the Watergate burglary was intentionally set up to be found out. Perdomo knocked the gun out of Chapman's hand after, I don't know how that's possible, and then kicked it away and told him to leave, its all so strange. & the this, the same Forensic Psychiatrist who claimed Sirhan Sirhan had hypjmotized HIMSELF, lol, well he also worked with Chapman at his lawyers urging, essentially it seems that Diamond implants false memories, did he do the same with Chapman??

[@TheHeavensFellen]

The amazing coincidence of Chapman and Reagan's shooter John Hinckley,, by a writer named Chirko, IU do not buy it is a coincidence but this is a true fact of their involvement in World Vision.Hinckley and Chapman Similarities and Shared Affinity for Lennon "Realistically, it should be relegated to coincidence that Hinckley’s father, Jack, was president of World Vision United States, a Christian relief organization where Mark David Chapman also worked, at its refugee camps in Lebanon and Arkansas. " (Chirko)

[@EltonoutoftheclosetOfficial]

Hi Wendy, John had seven external wounds from four bullets: four entry wounds, three exit wounds. (The fourth bullet ricocheted internally.) The external wounds were in John's back, left shoulder and chest. Basic first aid, and even *advanced* first aid, would've been utterly ineffective as an intervention. The most that basic first aid can do is to artificially pump the heart; it cannot address internal trauma such as that which John sustained. Due to this trauma, 80% of John's blood volume (about four litres) quickly drained out of his blood vessels. So pumping his heart artificially (with first aid/CPR) would serve no purpose: there was very little blood to be pumped. This is called hypovolaemic shock, which is what killed John. Imagine a garden-house with an extreme rupture. Turning up the water pressure won't help: the water will just drain out. This is what happened to John's blood vessels. With severely diminished blood flow comes hypoxia (oxygen depletion to the organs and tissues, including the brain), followed by rapid death, unless the rupture in the blood vessels can be plugged, fresh blood transfused, and the heart stimulated to pump in its own again. The cops knew the ONLY chance John had was to get him to a surgical team FAST. They made the right call.

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

My guess is no matter what anyone could’ve done, there was no way to save John’s life. According to reports, Chapman used hollow point bullets. Hollow point bullets expand upon impact severing John’s main arteries around his heart. It’s been said that even if paramedics were on standby the moment those bullets penetrated John’s body, he still couldn’t be save.

[@garfieldharrison510]

Asking the question. How did he die.? Where did he die. In gun toting America. If someone like that didn't have access to a gun. John may still be here.

[@saidboogeron-the-air9525]

That goddamn George Bush and another C.I.A. hit.

[@t-bo2734]

Ono saying "Oh no!" over and over again.

[@TL-ps5qo]

Chapman is a cover story for the military assassination of an innocent and law-abiding person. Their reasoning was he was too powerful and influential. Note his name Mark (as in target) and Chapman (as in Sh*tman) = Assinate the enemy. Note, also what Chapman says, 'He was an album cover to me'. A typically military sick joke, as it was a 'bum' or poor cover story for a cold-blooded murder. This why MI7 are keen that Liam and Noel Gallagher would copy his look and music, helping to bring the crime, dark and fear to a new generation. Yoko Ono was also involved, as part of Mi7 (note also the connotations arising from her name), and remains free to this day. Also, Sean Lennon, who is also part of MI7.

[@TL-ps5qo]

Chapman is a cover story for the military assassination of an innocent and law-abiding person. Their reasoning was he was too powerful and influential. Note his name Mark (as in target) and Chapman (as in Sh*tman) = Assinate the enemy. Note, also what Chapman says, 'He was an album cover to me'. A typically military sick joke, as it was a 'bum' or poor cover story for a cold-blooded murder. This why MI7 are keen that Liam and Noel Gallagher would copy his look and music, helping to bring the crime, dark and fear to a new generation. Yoko Ono was also involved, as part of Mi7 (note also the connotations arising from her name), and remains free to this day. Also, Sean Lennon and Paul McCartney, who are also part of MI7, are involved.