The Killing Of America / Violence U.S.A. / US / 1982 “While you watched this, five of us were murdered. One was the random killing of a stranger.” That is the final spoken narration of The Killing of America; delivered as deadpan and heavily-handed as all before it but this time accompanied by John Lennon’s “Imagine.” A few seconds earlier, we are informed that two people were murdered at Lennon’s vigil that we are currently seeing. Three and a half minutes prior we are shown the haunting photographic evidence of one of the pivotal moments in America cultural history: Lennon dutifully signing an autograph for Mark David Chapman hours before his death. The eighty-five minutes leading up to the segment on Lennon’s murder are comprised of authentic footage of scores of violent incidences ranging from ubiquitous inclusions such...
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