Tag: John Lennon
Posted on Mon Dec 08, 2008 at 07:30:48 PM EST
Tags: John Lennon (all tags)
28 years ago tonight, in the middle of Monday Night Football, Howard Cosell announced there had been an "unspeakable tragedy in New York City." John Lennon had been shot. (Video here.)
This is my sixth annual blog post about that night, and how for me, it's a day of both sadness and celebration. [More...]
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Posted on Fri Dec 08, 2006 at 07:10:00 AM EST
Tags: John Lennon, the TL kid (all tags)
26 years ago, on December 8, 1980, John Lennon was shot and killed outside his apartment building on the upper West Side of New York. I heard about it while laying in bed in Denver that night while my then-spouse was watching Monday Night Football. Howard Cosell interrupted the program to announce "An unspeakable tragedy tonight in New York City."
I was nine months and three weeks pregnant -- way overdue -- and had just returned from the hospital where they tried to induce labor but failed. Immediately after hearing Cosell's announcement, I heard a loud pop. My water had finally broken. I rushed to the hospital and a few hours later, at 1:00 am MT, the TL kid was born. I tell more about the events of that night here, and how for the past 26 years, I have told the TL kid that when John Lennon's spirit left his body, it must have entered his.
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