1.0 link 29446 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-simmons/the-us-vs-john-lennon-res_b_29446.html On December 8th, 1980 - the night John Lennon was murdered - I despondently slouched into The Troubadour, the nightclub in Los Angeles that John had been thrown out of almost-seven years before. I was friends with the bouncer, a neo-wiseguy from Brooklyn. "What'sa matta wit joo?" he asked when he saw my blood red eyes - on this night red from crying, not Jack Daniel's. "Ya know, John Lennon..." I mumbled. "Don't cry fuh 'im, cry fuh yuh-self," he...

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