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When History Professor Jon Wiener made a Freedom of Information request to the Federal Government for the late John Lennon's file, he could hardly have hoped for a richer payoff. "Every month or so I would get a little package of documents from the FBI," said Wiener, who is with the University of California at Irvine and is writing an admiring book about Lennon and the politics of the 1960s. "Then one day 26 lbs. of material arrived: the entire Immigration Service file." Heavily censored, the FBI's records, as well as the hefty Immigration documents, told...
...April 1970, according to the file, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover instructed some offices to watch Lennon and fellow Beatle George Harrison, who were then visiting the U.S. He advised his agents to look "for information indicating they are using narcotics." The bureau's wariness of Lennon mounted in December 1971 when he and Political Radical Jerry Rubin drew a crowd of 15,000 to a University of Michigan rally. Not long after that, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee suggested in a report to Attorney General John Mitchell that Lennon be deported. "If Lennon's visa is terminated...
...organize time and myth with music; we mark our lives by it. The death by assassination of John Lennon was an event that mingled music and myth and completed the relationship between the two. Music, as the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once said, "unites the contrary attributes of being both intelligible and untranslatable...
...that may be the jape's major flaw. Even regular readers of the Enquirer and its ilk may err in guessing which of the following stories comes from the spoof and which from the "real" tabloids: - The Chinese Communist government is sabotaging the U.S.-by spreading herpes. - John Lennon speaks daily from beyond the grave to his widow Yoko...
Paul McCartney: Tug Of War (Columbia). He is still rock's supreme balladeer, and Here Today is the simplest and best memorial to John Lennon anyone has written...