When I was about 10 years old John Lennon was assassinated. I did not know who John Lennon was (though I did know of the rock band, the Beatles). In school we had recently learned about the Russian communist dictator Vladimir Lenin, and that's who I thought had died. I wondered why everyone was so sad about such a bad man dying, and thought maybe he had changed his ways, or maybe he wasn't as bad as the teacher thought. I also thought it was weird that he hadn't died yet. I would have thought he'd died years and years ago.
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- I used to think that the Beatles broke up when John Lennon died.— Shirley B.
- I used to think that Lenin and John Lennon were the same person.— Melanjolly
- Because of MAD Magazine, I believed that Elvis died while on the john, with a tub of KFC in his lap.Anon
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- As a child, I thought that Olivia Newton-John was Elton John's wife and Juice Newton's sister.— Connie
- When i was younger i thought R.I.P on graves was a persons name, i always wondered why so many Rips died. — Jess