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DVD: The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2002)

DVD: The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2002)

January 18, 2015 | By

There’s two dominant themes in David Leaf and John Scheinfeld’s superb documentary on the U.S. government’s targeting of John Lennon and Yoko Ono as potential insurrectionists during the late sixties and mid-seventies: Lennon as the original rock icon/activist, who enabled musicians and artists like Bob Geldof and Bono to involve themselves in global causes; and the terrifying parallels between Nixonian abuses of power…

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