I wasn't born.

neither was I  

Quoted from Buttmunker

i was 10 years old when it happened, so I don't remember anything about it.

Chapman shot him at night, so I guess I was tucked away and asleep in my widdle iddle beddy bye.

I find that hard to believe. I would think that you'd remember something like that at ten. I was only seven when Diana of Wales died, and even though I didn't know who she was at the time, I remember it very clearly.

Plus what about the weeks after his death! My God, it was like the president had been shot! How you can't remember that is beyond me.

I got up that morning.........it was on a Tuesday, I remember that.  I had a birthday coming up on the 11th, so I was "almost 16"............mom and dad always listened to this country/news station on the radio...........and they came on saying, "former Beatles John Lennon has died, shot dead last night at his Dakota complex"..........and said more about it and I just cried and cried and CRIED that whole day at school.  Oh my god......someone had shot a "Beatle" and killed a "Beatle"........I was in shock for a long, long, time......

I did the whole bit of wearing, "Remember John" and all those T-shirts that people came out with just to remember, and "remind" what the music world had lost..........I was a "trouper", I was.......................and a fanatic............even got my mom to buying "anything" she saw of John Lennon at the stores when she went for her weekly shopping.

Quoted from Sandra

Lots of regulars haven't yet shared their story. I mean the ones that were around then. I wish they would.  

For anyone in Europe it was the middle of the night, so we were all asleep at the time.

always taking news lying down...

My husband "to be", heard it on Monday Night Football when Howard Cosell made a statement that John Lennon was shot at his Dakota apartment..........but nothing more was said.........so yes, this is all "American Time".....

everything in America is about football!

Quoted from BlueMeanie

For anyone in Europe it was the middle of the night, so we were all asleep at the time.

Yes but, it's: where were you when you heard. Like the Kennedy thing or now 9/11. The moment you heard it is what sticks with you. And we all eventually heard it.

BTW, I was asleep too. It was pretty late in NY too. Especially for a kid on a school night.

i was not born yet

I wasn't even born yet(:
i knew john was death , i think when i was 5 years old(:

Wasn't born, thank god for that because it isn't something I'd want to live tbh

i have no idea!!! i was born 12 years later!!