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The First Person to Report the Death of John Lennon
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Forty years ago, on the night of Dec. 8, 1980, John Lennon was murdered. And Steve North, a young broadcast reporter for the Long Island radio station WLIR, broke the news.
Steve North
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Dec. 8 2020
4:54AM EST
Steve North
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