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The show started at 8 p.m. on February 9. Lynn and her friend took a cab to Manhattan糖心传媒檚 Theater District and waited in line outside The Ed Sullivan Theater.
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That episode of the show is remembered today as the start of Beatlemania in America. An estimated 73 million viewers watched that night. Little did Lynn know that she would be immortalized on screen along with Paul, John, George, and Ringo.
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Then and now
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Lynn appears at the 1:24 mark.
