Where were you 30 years ago today?

[Cooper]

Hard to believe that it's been 30 years since I heard a bulletin break on the 11 o'clock news saying that John Lennon had been shot... I've passed by the Dakota and Strawberry Fields in Central Park many times always thinking of what could have been. 30 years ago, Imagine...

 

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RIP John Lennon

[+ Charlie]

Believe it or not, my apartment across the street overlooked the emergency room entrance at Roosevelt Hospital, and I watched from my window as the police carried Lennon into the ER . Of course, I didn't know who it was, but the arrival of all the police cars and news trucks within minutes told me it was someone important, and I found out shortly afterwards on the radio.

[josephga]

I was in the school cafeteria 5th grade i believe. I think it was not lunch but early morning waiting for class to start

[Rapaz]

I was 6 years away from being conceived, lol.

[Epigonos]

Oh shit you guys make me feel OLD. I was a forty year old school teacher in a L.A. suburb. The principal made an announcement over the school public address system.

[jawjateck]

Think I was fighting the sleeps in freshman algebra class....

[Steven_Draker]

I was too young to remember anything at that age thirty years ago and I realized much later who John Lennon was.

[Rapaz]

Oh shit you guys make me feel OLD. I was a forty year old school teacher in a L.A. suburb. The principal made an announcement over the school public address system.

You're 70 years old? Wow! That's pretty cool, i think.

[JT Brooklyn]

I was a 22 Year Old Bartender Tricking with a School Teacher in Greenwich Village that Night! Very Memorable for a few reasons.....

[RockCreekRunr]

I was a college freshman at Penn State and recall first hearing the news on the tv in my dorm lobby while I was heading out to class. A lot of students were gathered around watching the breaking news report. Honestly, I wasn't a huge Beatles fan at that time and the impact of Lennon's death was lost on me until I got a few years older (and wiser).

[JackTwist]

Sitting in my den watching Monday Night Football with my dad when Howard Cossell announced this horrific news. I couldn't believe what I thought I had heard...the entire event seemed so surreal--similar to how it felt to hear the news of President Kennedy being shot and Princess Diana & Elvis Presleys' deaths. ALL gone too soon.

 

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[CowboyUp]

That I am now older than he was at his death. He seems so much older in terms of worldliness and life experience. Time truly flies by so fast...can't believe it's been 30 years.

[OneFinger]

I was getting shit-faced at a company Christmas party. I honestly thought someone was taking advantage of my drunken state and playing a joke on me.

 

The sad truth eventually sunk in. Everyone suddenly became very sober.

[justaguy]

Steven's too young to remember. I was in my 20's living in DC--somehow that time period is just a blur....so I don't remember either.

[Samai139]

I heard the news on BBC World News in Bunumbu, Sierra Leone, West Africa where I was a lecturer in Geography at a teacher training college.

At the time I did not realise I was almost exactly the same age as John L.---both born in October 1940.

And yes, referring to a post above---it is cool to be 70 and yes some people did love me when I was 64.

[Steven_Draker]

I was in my 20's living in DC--somehow that time period is just a blur....so I don't remember either.

 

I can only IMAGINE, justaguy ...

 

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[dfw2sfo]

My birthday

 

I was celebrating my 13th birthday.

[+ deej]

I remember hearing the news and being saddened, but only in the sense that someone I'd heard of had died. There wasn't any sense of personal loss.

 

To be honest I never was a Beatles fan, and I gave up on "pop" music (and much of pop culture) around 1972 or so and have been mostly oblivious to it since.

 

Yeah, I know, heartless old curmudgeon before my time (which is true), but it just wasn't that big of a day for me.