"29 Decembers ago, a man on 72nd Street wanted only one thing: To get home for the night."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

A place haunted by Lennon's murder
By Bob Greene, CNN Contributor
December 6, 2009 9:03 a.m. EST

http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/06/greene.lennon/index.html



I heard a voice behind me.

"Is this where. . .?"

A young woman was asking her friend the question.

"Yes," the friend said, not needing to hear the rest.

***

"There are places I remember. . . ."

On Tuesday, as the anniversary of the murder arrives, perhaps the mood will be solemn in Strawberry Fields. But on this day, at least on this hour of this day, it was intermittently lighthearted. People sprawled on their backs on top of the mosaic, grinning and spreading their arms and legs in "Hard Day's Night" or "Help!" quasi-Beatles poses. Friends with cameras knelt near them, trying to angle the lens upward at a severe enough degree to include the looming vision of the Dakota in the shot.

***

Twenty-nine Decembers ago, a man on 72nd Street wanted only one thing:

To get home for the night.

[Canuckistanian]

1. K&R

A great loss for music and the world.

[FarLeftRage]

2. Murdered by the bfee...

Via MK-ultra mind control assassin... the whole bfee will rot for this..

[malaise]

3. I'll never forget that assassination

Ever
sp.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I didn't hear it from Howard Cosell, like many...I was watching "Little House On The Prairie"

They interrupted the program and said that he'd been shot. My brother-in-law showed up at my front door with a pizza (a surprise trip he'd planned before the news). I answered the door, we just looked at each other without saying a word, sat down at my table and ate the pizza in silence.

My primary memory is that photo of Yoko, in anguish, being held by her assistant Elliot Mintz.