{"id":41096,"date":"2016-12-09T06:04:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T11:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/how-howard-cosell-broke-the-news-about-john-lennons-death\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T17:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T22:30:04","slug":"how-howard-cosell-broke-the-news-about-john-lennons-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=41096","title":{"rendered":"How Howard Cosell Broke The News About John Lennon&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/how-howard-cosell-broke-the-news-about-john-lennons-death.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHow Howard Cosell Broke The News About John Lennon&#8217;s Death<\/p>\n<p>It was on this day, December 9, 1980 that most of us learned of John Lennon&#8217;s death, but those that were up late&#8230;watching ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Monday Night Football&#8221; game, heard the astounding news from Howard Cosell around 11:30 December 8, near the end of that night&#8217;s very long game from Miami.<\/p>\n<p>From ESPN, here is the amazing backstory of how it came to be that Howard Cosell broke the news of John Lennon&#8217;s death to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>There is even audio of the conversation about whether to announce it between Cosell and Frank Gifford in the booth recorded during a commercial break. ABC broke the news after one of their producers was taken to the emergency room in NY after a motorcycle accident&#8230;he was there when Lennon arrived and saw him come in. -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p>[evp_embed_video url=&#8221;http:\/\/CDN.eyesofageneration.com\/Content\/Daily_Posts\/2016\/p81216lennon.mp4&#8243; preload=&#8221;none&#8221; template=&#8221;mediaelement&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1162338380470376\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Howard Cosell Broke The News About John Lennon&#8217;s Death It was on this day, December 9, 1980 that most of us learned of John Lennon&#8217;s death, but those that were up late&#8230;watching ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Monday Night Football&#8221; game, heard the astounding news from Howard Cosell around 11:30 December 8, near the end of that night&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[784,1214,875,1077,704],"class_list":["post-41096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-ford","tag-howard-cosell","tag-monday-night-football","tag-producer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57623,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096\/revisions\/57623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}