@nflhistoric on Instagram: "On December 8th, 1980, at the tail-end of a Monday Night Football game, Howard Cosell delivered the tragic news to the world: John Lennon was dead. The call was made within an hour of the shooting and his official pronouncement at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. The immediate announcement was as abnormal as it was historic in a pre-internet world — it was only due to a news producer, who had been waiting in the ER at the hospital due to a minor traffic accident,
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@nflhistoric on Instagram: "On December 8th, 1980, at the tail-end of a Monday Night Football game, Howard Cosell delivered the tragic news to the world: John Lennon was dead. The call was made within an hour of the shooting and his official pronouncement at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. The immediate announcement was as abnormal as it was historic in a pre-internet world — it was only due to a news producer, who had been waiting in the ER at the hospital due to a minor traffic accident,
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