Video: 'Paul McCartney In Campbelltown,Scotland // 24 October 1969'

(Friday, October 24, 1969) — Paul McCartney of The Beatles was secretly filmed by an ABC News crew today as he worked on his High Park Farm in Campbeltown, Scotland.

It was McCartney’s first “public appearance” since the “Paul is dead” rumor that had been circulating for several weeks, bringing an end to the speculation that clues to his apparent accidental death had been included in backward messages within Beatles songs, and images on albums.

“If the conclusion you reach is that I’m dead, then you’re wrong, because I’m alive and living in Scotland,” McCartney told the BBC’s Chris Drake today in an interview broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend on Oct. 26, 1969.