The first thing I do every December 8 is give this another listen: “#WeakWithLove by #SusannaHoffa https://youtu.be/EBFtwgY61ow?si=qTc1z_A5ZVLKlaPD #JohnLennon #RIPJohnLennon

On this day 44 years ago, I was the resident assistant (RA) in my college dormitory on a Monday evening when I had just returned to the first floor of Ullman Hall dormitory at Delaware Valley University after wrestling practice and dinner in the cafeteria. We did not have cell phones, cable, or internet then. We had one public pay phone in the dorm hallway shared by the whole floor. I had a private wired phone in my room as the RA and I was a year or so older than most of the dorm mates. News of John Lennox’s death came first by radio station WXPN from the University of Pennsylvania that had direct telephone connections to people in NYC at that moment. Somebody, I don’t remember who, called me about the same time with the news, We had a bulletin board outside my room in the hallway next to the bathroom. This was how we primarily communicated local community information. It was common for me, as the RA and school newspaper editor, and, in general, known to be more connected and interested in the outside world, to communicate to the other residents this way since I had a private phone and a habit of listening to the radio (dorm mates were more likely to listen to music on 8 track tapes or LP records. I took a large white piece of paper and wrote the line “Imagine all the people living life in peace”. All of us knew the source. Then below “RIP, December 8, 1980”.
#RIPJohnLennon

When John Lennon was declared dead, the muzak in the hospital was playing Imagine. #RIPJohnLennon

https://youtu.be/ugrAo8wEPiI #RIPJohnLennon 🖤

18 Years Gone #RIPDimebagDarell and 42 Years Gone #RIPJohnLennon 😇😇

Oh yeah and Happy Fuck You Mark David Chapman Day 🤬 🤬 🤬 #RIPJohnLennon #JohnLennon

#YokoOno displayed the glasses that #johnlennon wore that night 42 years ago, in an artistic protest against gun crime.#ripjohnlennon