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I can't for the life of me remember where/what I was doing when I heard. I was not a big Beatles fan. Now ask me where I was when I heard Elvis Presley had died and I can tell you exactly. Isn't the subconscious mind strange.
I just typed "bloody glasses" into Google. Everything that came up had to do with Yoko Ono 's image of the glasses to protest gun violence.
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[I was] somewhere in South Australia. I was ten, and didn't really have a concept of musicians, or watch the news. Also we were living in the country, which in South Australia meant a fair bit of isolation. Neither of my parents were the news junkie types. That said I do remember I purchased my first cassette album in response to it, A Collection Of Beatles Oldies.
I have no clear recollection of haring the news. The only memory I have is buying the Beatles album in response to the news.
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Dec. 8, 1980, 11:15 pm. I was half way through my pregnancy with Betsy and definitely home with my toddler Ben. I was not watching the Monday Night Football game or Nightline. I probably was getting ready for bed or in bed.
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At the time I was listening to Rachmaninov and studying for a chemistry exam. I didn't learn about his death until the next morning. I was waiting for the furnace repairman to finish fixing the furnace the next morning My brother had a decorative mirror with the Beatles over the fireplace. The repairman asked, "who is the one who was shot?"
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Nelsen Spickard
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I know exactly where I was when JFK was killed, and when man landed on the moon, but John Lennon wasn’t big in my life and I think I had problems at that time that overshadowed stuff like that. I was most likely helping kids with homework. Can't say for sure.
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Winnifred Evans
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In terms of where I was when I heard the news of Lennon's shooting....I was at home, the morning after, and heard about it on the radio as I ate breakfast. Walked around in a bit of a daze for hours that day. I really liked The Beatles back then.
I had never seen these bloody glasses before your post and they were some what upsetting to view. I couldn't help thinking about the irony....Lennon kind of envisioned the world through rose-coloured glasses and he died wearing rose-coloured glasses.
Truly the end of an era in more ways than one.
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Cindy Costigan
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Watching Monday night football (the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins) when Howard Cosell announced Lennon's death. The end of innocence for the Beatles generation.
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Tom Collins
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Indeed. When I was writing down my answers, turned and asked my husband for the exact date, he said afterwards: "I was sleeping when it happened, woke up the next morning when my mom called and told me, I was devastated"
I had only asked for the date....but it's one of those events on which the impact is so big that you get transported to that time and place.
Would he have written something bigger than "Imagine" in the 80's?
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It was a Monday night, and I was a senior in college in upstate NY. It is likely that I was huddled in a warm place with a stack of books studying and preparing for upcoming exams.
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Carol Stansell
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I was living in Dubai, so it was the morning of Dec. 9, 1980. I was at work and didn't hear the news until I got home that afternoon. My daughter probably has a better recollection of the event since it was her 22nd birthday.
My husband was in the pre-engineered metal building industry. I worked for a oilfield service company, but I got the job after we got there. It was a fun time to live there.
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Ellen Welker
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Somewhere in South Australia. I was ten, and didn't really have a concept of musicians, or watch the news. Also we were living in the country, which in South Australia meant a fair bit of isolation. Neither of my parents were the news junkie types. That said I do remember I purchased my first cassette album in response to it, A Collection Of Beatles Oldies.
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Benjamin Hollister
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On the phone at my mother's house, making reservations for places to stay along the route I and my wife-to-be would follow on our way to Alaska in less than a month, following our wedding.
"Bloody glasses" was all the search I needed, although I had a feeling they were John's. I had been a fan of the Beatles since I first saw them on the CBS Evening News in 1963
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Peter Norton
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In Boise, Idaho. I was a stay-at-home mom then. My check register shows that I had gone grocery shopping that day.
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Lennon came to mind as soon as I saw the picture, just googled John Lennon Glasses to make sure and the pic came immediately.
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A personal follow up: The Beatles were (was?) a huge part of my musical history. I was a freshman in college when the Beatles arrived on the scene. I had a blind date with a woman who is now my wife 51 years later, about two weeks before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
When the Beatles broke up, I blamed Yoko, and did not like her at all. Many, many years later, I came to learn the deep, loving relation that bonded John and Yoko.
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As it was Sunday night, I was at home watching TV when a news bulletin interrupted standard programming.
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Owen Blevins
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Dec. 8, 1980, 11:15 pm. I was half way through my pregnancy with Betsy and definitely home with my toddler Ben. I was not watching the Monday Night Football game or Nightline. I probably was getting ready for bed or in bed.
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Judy Pfaff
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12/8/80 -- in my apartment in NH. Honestly? I don't remember.
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Audrey Nicholson
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I was either at home watching Monday Night Football or at work in the ER at Bethany Medical Center in Kansas City, KS.
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John Thatcher
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I was likely in bed. since he was shot at night. Age-wise, I would have been a freshman in high school.
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Rebecca Bare
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Dang it! Missed this one! Hubby and I had decided it was the glasses worn by James S. Brady when he was shot on the left side of his head. There are photos of him wearing a similar "P3" design frame. One tends to remember Lennon wearing wire rims. You caught us this time! can't wait to see how others figured it out. We had just started our practice and were not paying much attention to the rest of the world, I fear. Thanks for another good one.
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Kitty Huddleston
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I was 28 years old and remember the news flash on TV.
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Betty Chambers
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Wow, the minute I saw this photo, particularly with the background, I thought "John Lennon". No idea why. Of course, the third question kind of makes it clear that it was relatively recent.
This was December 8, 1980; it was my son's second birthday. My wife and I were in bed in Maryland watching Monday Night Football when Cosell came on to tell everyone what had happened. Of course, he did so in his most stentorous voice. It was pretty shocking, particularly for someone who grew up with the Beatles. I still think he, followed closely by George Harrison, was the most inventive of the Beatles.
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Roger Lipsett
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I have no idea, other than the broad description of "living in Los Angeles", but my sister was living across the street. Her roommate heard the shot but thought it was a car backfiring.
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Janice M. Sellers
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I'm not quite sure where I was at. I understand it was announced on Monday Night Football by Howard Cosell (before the days of 24 hour news). Maybe I heard it there.And to be honest, I didn't look any of this up. I'm old enough to remember the passing of a cultural icon.
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Evan Hindman
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I know I wasn't watching Monday Night Football.
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Tynan Peterson
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These are the glasses that John Lennon wore when he was murdered. Yoko has tweeted this pic to fight against gun violence - AMEN. I was working in NYC at the time and we all felt that it was the end of an era when someone as peace loving as John Lennon was shot just for someone's obsession over an actress that he had no chance of ever impressing. SICK.
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Barbara Battles
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I was at home, no doubt trudging through a calculus homework assingment
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Gary Elder
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I was at home with wife and kids at 2442 El Burlon Circle, Rancho Cordova, CA
Comment: Bloody Glasses brought up the picture. No need for tineye.
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Arthur Hartwell
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On that date, Monday December 8th I was seeing patients in my office in Metairie La. I did NOT use TinEye alert: that is cheating.
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Jim Kiser
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