John Lennon Revolution
In the 1970s the FBI tried to have John Lennon deported for protesting the Vietnam War.
The Beatles first criticized the US involvement in Vietnam on their 1966 tour—which would turn out to be their last ever. By the end of the decade, Lennon was being ridiculed by the mainstream media for his publicity stunts with Yoko Ono.
After Lennon joined the US antiwar movement and spoke out against Nixon, the US government started deportation proceedings.
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Remember, 1972 was an election year, and it was the first year 18-year-olds could vote, and 18-year-olds were listening to Lennon, not Nixon.
The result was that Lennon cancelled a tour, Nixon got reelected, and Lennon’s lawyers had to fight to keep postponing a 60-day deportation order for the next couple of years. And more troops died in a war without a sane reason. At the time, Lennon’s claims that he was being bugged and targeted by the FBI was laughed at. But after his death, 300 pages of FBI files prove he was right. |
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Lennon had plenty of faults, but his courage to stand up for freedom while caught in the grasp of Nixon’s goons is one reason he’s still so admired today.
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