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Title: 1980 Newspapers
Post by: Sondra on September 29, 2007, 02:07:44 AM

If anyone's interested. Here are some New York area newspapers from that week:

From a Long Island paper. This was a special pull out section. Made me weep many times.
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Here's the top:
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A couple of articles inside:
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/Maccalvr/article2.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/Maccalvr/edge.jpg)

Recognize the band shell?
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I've got the New York Post one, but it's pretty well known so I won't scan it. Maybe just the articles. And I won't scan the one with the pic of him dead. That one always freaked me out. The Post was always such a scummy paper.

Title: Re: 1980 Newspapers
Post by: Mairi on September 29, 2007, 04:25:32 AM

This is depressing stuff, but interesting. thanks for posting.

Title: Re: 1980 Newspapers
Post by: Sondra on September 29, 2007, 05:07:26 AM

I've got tons more, but if it's too depressing I won't post them. I don't want to bum the place out.

Title: Re: 1980 Newspapers
Post by: Buttmunker on September 29, 2007, 07:44:28 PM

no, please - bum us out, bum us out.  Some of us were only 10 in 1980, and couldn't get the opportunity to keep newspapers reporting the incident.

Title: Re: 1980 Newspapers
Post by: Pasta Cheif on September 29, 2007, 11:55:57 PM

I have a tape of radio annoucements/breaking news of Lennon's murder from that night and the next day. It is kind of sad, but I am eventually going to convert it to cd or maybe mp3s. But, I don't know, I also thought it was depressing.  

Title: Re: 1980 Newspapers
Post by: Sondra on October 03, 2007, 12:47:58 AM

A bunch more. The article from the Soho paper is very touching.

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Title: Re: 1980 Newspapers
Post by: JimmyMcCullochFan on October 10, 2007, 03:27:13 AM

interesting and sad, thanks for sharing.