Video: John Lennon story - Death

December 8, 1980 is, in retrospect, one of the most important days in my life. It was a Monday, and I was in the 5th grade at Solomon Schecter Day School in Cranford, NJ, and we had the day off. My Dad and I were living alone in Plainfield, New Jersey, but I was spending the long weekend at my Godfather's tiny studio in Manhattan on W. 72nd Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenue, one avenue away from the Dakota, where John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived. My Godfather, Vincent Cavallaro [...]