JOHN LENNON SHOT - ITN NEWS 1980

[ILiveOnMyBoat]

John seemed to be a man of the world and would have liked to have crossed his path once. Don't know him but love his musicianship and persona.

No-one has the right to slag off Yoko Ono. This woman brought to him love and peace - it is a hypocrite that says otherwise.

She was everything to him as is written, spoken and heard.

No-one seems to give a shit that she has suffered by losing him?

As for the conspiracy don't count anything out once you have embarrassed governance.

John will forever

[mrcjrowe]

Lennon is a big influence on my own singing. He wrote the first hit for the Beatles - Please, Please me.

[mrceebees14]

What the fuck did he see in Yoko??????? I just can't get it, she comes off as someone who is totally capable of sticking a Knife in your back.

The Apple does not fall far from the Tree either, Sean is a bonified stuck up prick with no musical talent what so ever.

[shaung]

@mrceebees14 Do grow up

[ricie65]

I was 15 and into the Beat/specials/clash Etc etc...I was at a girls house on the way to school and this came on the morning news-I did not really know the beatles or Lennon but it hit somethin-its the birthday of my sister and the day my grandad died-but 31 yrs later this day rings out more for the death of lennon-In Disaster terms-I'ts one of the worst

[growlerthe2nd]

the great john lennon shot by bungalow bill ,will the human race ever learn.

[NewPemmie]

THEY SHOULD MAKE THE KILLER SUFFER WITH FIRE AND HIS HEART AND LUNGS BEING CUT OPEN

[KikiBrandao]

@NewPemmie can't agree with you, John was searshing for PEACE, not war, he wanted the world to live as one! he wouln't be proud of that! that man is going to die in jail, that's it, now we must go on with John's ideals. LONG LIVE TO THE KING, we love you, always...

[hcvideoproductions]

He was a dreamer....

but he wasn't the only one

[CuteMcBeauty]

Mark chapman will surely develop a seriously painful and purulent penile gangrene infection. His schlong will simply drop off one day while he takes a leak in his prision bed pan. His nuts will necrose... it will hurt, fucker. It will smell. You know why? because you don't fuckin' shoot a Beatle dead and live a peaceful life in the comfort of Rikers where no one can lynch your sorry Hawaiian ass. Life has an odd way of balancing itself out. And if WE can't get to you... Penile gangrene will.

[PojekGwapzpo123]

also 7 minutes after john's death another john lennon from liverpool a kitchen attendant or something he got shot dead what a coincidence

[joshuaperryhayes]

smrndoff- A piece of advice: don't read too far into the nature of passing comments for a video on YouTube. :-) I don't think the typist really cared, nor should you.

[HarrowingWinter]

I will never accept that John Lennon got shot. I simply tell myself that he's in Pepperland with his yellow submarine.

[emirenfield]

@HarrowingWinter im in my thirties mate and when i seriously ponder on it it is like a dream. truly unbelievable and unnecessary. just... why? but everything happens for a reason and the only small comfort is that he almost became a martyr for peace. and his message spread and had a more serious, profound effect on the world. but that is a very, very small consolation. 8-(

[brereton1113]

Please don't venerate Lennon as much as you all do. He was just a man, not a God.

Yes he was a great musician and composer and was doubtless a doting father and husband... like millions of men.. but he was also a hypocrite with his nasty side. But then we all have. We all have a nice and nasty side and of course I am so sad for his death. Nobody deserves that. But he was just a man. Just a man.

[luisito3999]

it is sad for john lennon to die that stupid man with the gun should pay for what he has done :(

[Feenatin]

We need John Lennon.

we're nothing but war, hate and pollution without him.

It's only gonna get worse.

[The6thSimpson]

5:34

George looks PISSED.

[christinamuchh]

the only reason 10 people disliked this was because they disliked that John Lennon died. RIP John Lennen<3

[MrDel000]

John we love ye rip

[045781]

The United States is a bravewashed Media believing infested land.

Lennon was the only person on earth who could gather one million people together to protest war.

That is a serious threat to the United States war machine,

Got it...........

[Marcolectrocutioner]

kim il sung had more mourners than john lennon... then again... john lennon was loved more than kim il sung ... maybe not.... maybe... its all the same. so crazy... but why?

[Duudeabides]

I recall watching this in 1980.Sad day.

[MightySouthpaw]

Can we just throw away guns? Please.

[sraydavis]

The dream is never over! Even though he was killed 30 years ago he will never be silenced. Generations to come will listen to his music some of them will hear the message. Those who hear will be the peace advocates and will change the world. ((ºJº))

[emilblaster]

Incredible to se so many likes (thumbs up) on john lennon got shot!

[enriquevrquiroga]

@emilblaster you're justin bieber :D

[dannyokball]

damn people of that time loveddd john lennon! the beatles were larger than life and still are....no one will ever be as influential as they were

[Marcolectrocutioner]

@dannyokball michael jackson... biggie smalls... proportions are better than just numbers... its all the same.

[smrndoff]

We live in a time of knowledge never dreamed of by the ancients with their mad, ranting, epileptic, frothing ''prophets'' who actually prophesied nothing that can't be heard in the echoing chambers of pyschiatric wards all over the world every day of the week.

I'm sick of the parasitic, half educated priests and mullahs who presume authority without real knowledge or study of anything real. Instead opting for the easy mumbo-jumbo of religion. A sop to all the failed academics of the world.

Pah

[smrndoff]

And why should religious ideas be protected from criticism and mockery when nobody elses ideas are thus protected?

What's special about religious ideas? After all, they are merely primitve, superstitions. And I've noticed that all the three different Abrahamic faiths all exhort us to believe and behave in different ways whilst apparently worshiping the same deity. And they all make threats of physical torture for those who don't follow their particular brand of Abrahamic faith.

Loathesome.

[smrndoff]

Why shouldn't religion be mocked? It seems to me that it is a prime target for mockery. When men pretend they have a direct line to a divine being and they have a book which was revealed to them by that divine being and that the rest of us should obey them (the men, mark you) because of this divine link, then please forgive me for mocking them. There isn't a man alive nor a book in existence which knows more than I do about the divine or the lack of the divine.

Mockery is the best they deserve.

[louisewhomackable]

john lennon was correct. They were and are more popular than Jesus.

[sauciesedgwick]

"to kill him with a gun is ridiculous" amen

[thetruegladiator]

he mocked God, so he got what he got....

[flissss]

@thetruegladiator

Fuck you. You;re a worthless piece of shit for that statement.

[nealtracy]

@thetruegladiator ....You fucking idiot!......And you know what?....You'll get yours for that comment!

[smrndoff]

@thetruegladiator

Yeah, he mocked god, so he got what he got....a bit like Ghandi, he got the same thing. Oh and so did Kennedy. And Martin Luther King got what he got.

See, son, it seems that there are nut jobs with guns all over the world who decide to murder people for all kinds of reasons. I mean, they nearly got Reagan too didn't they? And they did get Abe Lincoln.

There is no god son....and there is no divine retribution. God's a sick joke that was never funny. It's a myth.

[fatpizzaman]

@smrndoff How can you compare Lennon to Gandhi, King, or JFK?

[smrndoff]

@fatpizzaman

The comparison is in response to someone who said that Lennon was shot because ''he mocked god''

So I pointed out some other people who were shot who conspicuously did not ''mock god'' because they were religious themselves.

So, that kind of rules out the notion that being shot is some divine retribution for mockery.

Now do you understand the comparison?

You can see who my comment was directed towards. So why not read his message to see what it was on about before butting in?

[fatpizzaman]

@thetruegladiator there have been many other rock and pop stars who have openly mocked God and not had the same retribution that John got. But you are right in a way - when you make fun of God or Jesus Christ a certain segment of spiritual protection is removed from you. A friend of mine speculated on this in his blog where he also refers Charles Haddon's recent death after calling his band's album "Christ Died For Our Synths". There are some things you don't jest at.

[LeamingtonSteve]

I remember that day, that week like it were yesterday

[GameInfernape]

one thing i wanna ask chapman y y would u kill him for such a stupid reason fame isnt evrything chapman

[masterwitt]

setup

[madcapoperator]

people who are still sore about the 'were now bigger than jesus' comment is nothing more than a fucking dinosaur!

[manconoo]

@catchjedi This is the same man who saw his fellow Irishmen( John had strong Irish ancesttry) being butchered on the streets of Derry by the British army for the crime of asking for equality. If i had family murdered by the paras I would join the iRA!! FUCK YOU!

[manconoo]

@catchjedi This was never an Irish problem = it was always an imperial British colonial problem that went back centuries. You will" find long before the para intervened" that it was Cromwell and his ilk who were throwing babies up in the air and catching them on their bayonets(Massacre of Dundalk), more recenlty the Black and |TaNS. Goyim like you deserve your Queens enslavement - all funded by Jewish money ha haa.

[manconoo]

@catchjedi When we openly establish our world government Goyim like you will be the first to be disposed of. CITY of LONDON IS Israeli owned and all funded by ROTHSCHILD. We fund your puppet prime ministers who either way lab/Con always serve our system.You fight wars for Zionist Israel he he! BTW I could easily get MoSSad to track you down and have you arrested and jailed for hate crime. You dumb goy.

[spareaxe]

Jesus never existed anyway ....big deal.

[Scottieonfire]

@spareaxe lol... yeah he did.

[spareaxe]

@Scottieonfire He did? Cause you say so?

[Scottieonfire]

@spareaxe no because dozens of archeologist say so. not trying to start anything here, just stating a known fact.

[D4rkR4ngz]

@spareaxe You're so dumb.

[imsebbot123]

All went down hill from here...

[matsui2001]

@imsebbot123 Very true...Very true!

It was not just John Lennon who died this day...It was music also.

[0000song0000]

i was born in 91, he was so revolutionary that his message is still valid

Miss him, miss him , miss him

[mgunwin]

Fuck Mark David Chapman.!!! He deprived the world of a genius. Man should be dead.

[CORRUPTsn1per]

@mgunwin you know john wouldnt want that, no one deserved to die or deserves to. john expressed that want for peace in his music..

[mgunwin]

I was born in '85 but to me he still resonates as powerfully today as in 1980. I tear up watching this.

[workstrength]

Yoko wasn't the first woman in his life. The Beatles had many steady relationships, but only Yoko insisted on being everywhere with John. Is that love, or something else.?

[pogle30]

John Lennon was great, keep Chapman locked up for ever, for his crime against the people and a legend.

[marniedrew]

J0hn was a normal human being who wanted peace and had the means of making it public. A beautiful guy with his flaws and faults sure enough, but a beautiful guy all the same. It's a pity that a man who lived a life-full of tragedies and had finally found a modicum of stability and emotional peace, had to die in such a horrible, violent way. He was loved by everyone. If it had been a disease or something like that... but the suddeness and senselessness of it all ... Tragic. WE LOVE U JOHNNY!!!!

[bleep77]

@marniedrew Nicely put, marniedrew. That sums up John Lennon, the man, and after 30 years, he is still very very missed

[MetallicBill]

John Lennon wasn't exactly Ghandi, but he had a good heart, sure

[maverick16cuthberts]

IF ONLY THE WORLD ..... COULD LISTEN TO WHAT JOHN WAS SAYING .... TODAY WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE.... SO MUCH ANGER AND HATE .....? THE KIDS GROWING UP TODAY DONT KNOW ANY DIFFRENT... THEY STEP IN THEIR PARENTS FOOTSTEPS...A CIRCLE OF ANGER WHICH HAS TO BE STOPPED ....

[smrndoff]

@maverick16cuthberts

A piece of adivice: don't use capital locks to make comments. It's the written equivalent of shouting at passing traffic.

[mistofoles]

Try telling John life begins at 40!

[MetallicBill]

@mistofoles I was born in August 1966, and Beatles were bigger the Jesus! Interesting to note. I was raised Christian and my folks are not 60s music fans but they have found something to take away from the classic rock scene thanks to my strong interest

[Aphytus]

All the crap about America.... Look, we're embarrassed by this incident. He felt safe here, and we let him down. Enough already. Violence is hardly unique to the US. George Harrison was almost knifed to death in his own home in England. Only his wife saved him from being killed. Should I judge all Brits based on that?

[VictorVimes]

@Aphytus The best comment made on this video.

[IrishAmerican1234]

I was reading this thing online, and the guy who killed john Lennon said, after reading the book,"Catcher in The Rye, he had the urge to kill john Lennon. and he just happened to run into him when Lennon came home.... It was such a freak thing.... And this video made America seem like a bad place and if John would have stayed out of it, hed be alive today (it is true) But its actually really nice............ Boy, I bet that killer got killed in prison.

[MultiAdammc]

@IrishAmerican1234 no hes still alive, but the goverment making sure hes NOT killed 4 some reason

[smrndoff]

@MultiAdammc

He shouldn't be killed. He's a psychiatric case. You can't go killing people because they're mad. That would be barbaric. Mad people should be given treatment. I hope Mr. Chapman gets his chance of redemption. Lennon himself, I feel sure, wouldn't wish for Chapman's death.

[fatpizzaman]

@smrndoff definitely! Everyone deserves a second chance at life no matter how much they might have fucked up like Chapman did. Then again Lennon was no saint. He mocked religion, he fucked his body and mind up with drugs, he mistreated his wives, he virtually neglected his first son Julian, he treated Stu Sutcliffe badly, and he made a home film where he shared a bath with Yoko's daughter when she had her 7th birthday. But he wrote good songs all the same.

[IImidnightshow]

yes only racism, rape, and murder exists in America. stfu already.

[hccIem1]

We haven`t forgot in Liverpool what that bastard Chapman did and the world hasn`t forgot either. He`s seeking freedom for the sixth time. If Chapman gets out of prison he will be dead within an hour because Chapman doesn`t realise that people are still angry he thinks because he commited his crime 30 years ago people have forgotten about it. John Lennons murder is with us today as much as it was December 1980 the world still mourns this music legend.

[IanEduardoMeneses]

That guy who shot John Lennon must be dead in hell.

[Norwegianguy94]

it's crazy what jealousy can do :/

[beansterman1998]

When lennon died, music died :(

[midtownmania]

@gencoss I don't appreciate your harsh tone. John Lennon stood for peace, mind you.

[James4683]

I loved john very much and some fuckin american killed him in fact my dad lived near richerd starkey so he saw john lennon nearly all the time reply if you want to hear more

[KenStah85]

The "Where Were You When...?" Moment of the 1980s.

[TheNaomiengland]

How come noone made a big deal about Sid Vicious death?

[matsui2001]

@TheNaomiengland Sid Vicious is not good enough to lick dog shit off the sole of John Lennons shoes...That is why!

[TheNaomiengland]

@matsui2001 If feel that way its up to. But I love Sid Vicious very much he was a good soul.

[jba2323]

A TRUE MAN OF LOVE AND PEACE

[sonicsounds]

john lennon will be missed so much not just the fans of him but his best friends (the beatles) RIP JOHN LENNON,Gerorge harrison

[watty024]

@lalunedemars09 george harrison was almost murdered in england, so i don't really see your point. for the record, i'm canadian.

[yourvidisbad101]

Stuiped Americans

[ieatshitsticks]

i feel so bad to be american...

[stuart7034]

he was a fuckin dylan wannabe

[ScreenFlavour]

@stuart7034 only for a brief period then he became even greater than dylan.

[5StarWullie]

america the best country in the world eh!

[closetbug]

my reply was to gencoss

[BuzArmstrong]

Mark Chapman should have been given the electric chair the bastard

[stickranger64]

Idiot dude who shot him. Should be like shot 2414124 times. Seriously. I would do it.

[bharo9]

Brian Epstien..... The bloke at the end is not right.

[bharo9]

He was right. The Beatles were more popular than Jesus at that time.

[nightcrawler511]

whats the mbe?

[javiercristian006]

I was only 9 years old when John Lennon died, but i remember that i cried

[IPwnYoLilGimp]

Its bad enough the Beatles had to break up. But I think it was 1000% precent unnecesary to be shot, and who ever did shoot him I cant think of his name but HE WILL BURN FOR AN ETERNATY IN HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mrceebees14]

It wasn't only John's words that made the Beatles, that is just ridiculous, McCartney wrote a hell of a-lot of those songs. Even Ringo and George wrote some hits.

I liked John, but lets not get carried away.

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Harold Wilson knew that helping the Beatles get OBEs would put him in high regards with the young and it worked.

[tararawks]

but nobody wants to live in england cause it sucks.

[Kazdal567]

...?

[nightcrawler511]

@tararawks y is tht

[skid126]

john we will always remember u!!!

[likebigg]

i miss him so much

[sacramentolove]

1:51 purple heart? hahaha! thts for the military awards, silver, silver! XD

[sacramentolove]

1:51 purple heart? hahaha! thts for the military awards, silver, silver! XD

[Exiles800]

Chapman was probably programmed to kill Lennon by CIA. People who live in Hawaii don't fly to New York to kill Lennon to make their life work unless there's some serious underlying motivation. If he was that psycho people would have known it. Look at his CIA interaction background.

[whelljack]

Mark David Champan = the devil

[left4awsome2]

its yoko fault she caused the break up

[FlameHound99]

John Lennon, the world misses you, even if they're not aware of it.

[level242]

THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!

[juju9211]

John avait raison il est plus connus que Jesus et lui au moins on l'a connus.....

[SocialSyco]

Shut the fuck up. dont blame america on lennon's death. his killer was declared insane, and was stalking lennon wherever he went. same thing would ve probably happen if he was in england. idiot.

[FactoryForFailuree]

@SocialSyco no that pycho wouldnt have killed him tho and they declared him insane so he wouldnt die it happens in alot of murder cases . its called strategy

[Ol09Ash]

@gencoss yeah man **** america

[shytguy]

you are an ignorant moron. Theres gotta be a reason he wanted to live here and not with you dueches....and its yoko's fault not American society

[monieo555]

yoko was not a bad person.

-.-

[southperth22]

@gencoss ... yes america is a savage psycho society that is why john lennon wanted to live there soooo bad that he spent 5 years fighting immigration to stay in america....you fucking asshole....lennon loved america...

[gencoss]

He loved money not America. No one wants to live in America you dumb.

[left4awsome2]

no ok lennon did it for the music him and the rest of the beatles played and did it because they had fun doing it

[kevinyuni]

@gencoss he got shot for comparing him self to popular caracter called jesus, you are right we got some crazy people here

[fidel70able]

@kevinyuni i thought he got shot for ditching the beatles and starting to sing with yoko ono

[kevinyuni]

@fidel70able NO its believed that the reason was something about religion BUT in my opinion was cause he got an ugly critter(girl)

[James4683]

noooooo

[closetbug]

yeah right.....

[pandarane]

@gencoss I'm american, and I have to agree.

[gunnakillu12]

@gencoss the guy lived in Hawaii and took a plane to New York so he's actually hardly an American.

[viganik]

@gunnakillu12 The point is not whether he was killed by an american or asian or whatever he is, the point is he was killed in the U.S.

[gunnakillu12]

@viganik ya but people are saying America is bad but he was not really even killed by an american so how is it our fault?

[kaos508able]

@gencoss man fuck u America is the best country in the world

[ShadowPheonix12]

@kaos508able America is bullshit waste of space.

[MeganRae9]

@ShadowPheonix12 Your bullshit :) You just want something to blame for your problems well England isn't all that Perfect either so Fuck Off ass hole

[MultiAdammc]

@MeganRae9 now hold on, scotland and wales have problems 2 so shut ur big fat english mouth!

[MeganRae9]

@MultiAdammc umm..yea i know retard i'm not bashing america but i'm not saying the place is perfect

[MultiAdammc]

@ShadowPheonix12 just shut the fuck up about america! i love america! im not american or ever been there but i love it

[97thebeatles]

@gencoss its not americas fault we had an idiot living in our society englands had crazy people who have killed

[MeganRae9]

@gencoss now just wait a minute just because some asshole killed John that does not label the entire U.S as a bad place..yea he might still be alive if he would have stayed in England but John came to America by choice and he found his peace here so You have no right :) ok

[gencoss]

@MeganRae9 That's the whole thing ..... "just because some asshole". Because of these assholes he ended up that way. Got it now ?

[pawnsacrifice1]

I visited the spot when I was in NY. Rude not to!

My teacher called an assembly and played a beatles song on an acoustic guitar in tribute

[angelbassman]

It was so sad...I still remember that night..I was in shock, so I just can t beleave the news...my tears still stand here

[Beatlefan123314]

This made me cry until they showed pauls secretary. Once a nerd, always a nerd.

[CookieeBeanx]

John will forever live, as the rest of the beatles! One of the best people to walk the world. R.i.p

[godnutt]

we still remember u

john

[TehReeves]

People who die the way he did deserve a second chance.

R.I.P. John Lennon

[punkgirl234234101]

its so sad that John Lennon died.

I wish he had another chance.

[nonew101]

FUCK!!!

John Lenon is GAY!

[sythshowedu]

lol 4:55

[TaniaVonTee]

John lennon is my God.

R.I.P

♥

[bluemeany]

Yoko is my Devil.

[mcrbillytalent]

lets give peace a chance but can peace give us a chance?

[jonsey44]

All we are saying is give peace a chance xxxx

[googlexxxxxxx]

The message was kinda right but the way he did it was very wrong

[WeLoveYouMJ4ever]

all we are sayin is give peace a chance

rip john lennon and michael jackson

gone too soon :(

[ingibingi2000]

michael jackson was a freak child molester and deserves no where near the respect lennon does

[BR0WNY0DA]

Yeah... John would be disappointed in you.

[domthehun]

booooooo john lennon hated guns hated violonce

[TheHappydead]

jay z is fuck all compared to the beatles .

wat a piece of shit chapman is

[WiltatKansas]

He was murdered by Mark David Crapman

[JLennonOno]

really ?

[Konnerific]

crapman. lololol.