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Inside The FBI's Files On John Lennon
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Күн бұрынJohn Lennon is one of the most famous and beloved figures of the 20th century. Even more than his Beatles compatriots Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney, Lennon embraced his role as a world figure and tried to use it to make a difference. Alongside his wife Yoko Ono, Lennon pushed for peace and togetherness.
But that made him a target of the U.S. government under President Richard Nixon, who had FBI director J. Edgar Hoover wage a campaign of harassment and fear to try and undermine Lennon's influence and political effectiveness. All the weird and shameful details hide inside the FBI's files on John Lennon.
#JohnLennon #TheBeatles #Musician
Political beginnings | 0:17
The FBI waited to disclose the files | 1:31
Why was Lennon being investigated? | 2:35
The John Sinclair political concert | 3:50
A sometimes laughable FBI investigation | 5:13
Lennon knew what was happening | 5:57
Lennon and the Communist Party? | 6:52
Lennon and worker's rights | 7:56
The Republican National Convention | 8:57
The files were pretty fluffy | 10:08
The aftermath | 11:41
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@GrungeHQ 3 жыл бұрын
What do you think about John Lennon?
@anemaldemomusic8182 3 жыл бұрын
Legend
@sm_275 3 жыл бұрын
@@anemaldemomusic8182 I agree
@apoormansempire 3 жыл бұрын
My least favorite Beatle. But definitely a musical genius. He seemed like he'd be hard to deal with
@dubvuchyea502 3 жыл бұрын
I don't miss him at all
@patriciarussell1177 3 жыл бұрын
He’s my hero! his words have never been forgotten nor will they be forgotten!
@tedswanson2115 3 жыл бұрын
John wasn't married to Yoko in '67 (the summer of love). The events you refer to were in '69...
@dcluvspie5777 2 жыл бұрын
They had been together since 1966 though and considered themselves husband and wife...
@GarethE94 2 жыл бұрын
@@dcluvspie5777 yes but they didn’t stay in bed for their honeymoon until 1969
@rodog9465 2 жыл бұрын
@@dcluvspie5777 no they meet each other in 1966 once and then meet each other a few more times but then at the end of 1967 he fell in love with her and tried to get as close with her as possible in early 1968 then when he went to India it had become clear he needed her, so when he got back they got together and they were always right next to each other and got married in 1969
@stanleythompson5321 Жыл бұрын
Yoko's facial structures are similar to John's, that's weird.
@sinbaon2154 3 жыл бұрын
Love Is The Answer, And You Know That For Sure!
@tucosalamanca5194 3 жыл бұрын
Thats bollocks
@melissaward6311 Жыл бұрын
It would be lovely if everyone could learn to love. I do believe good will win over evil. Maybe one day.
@robertschlesinger1342 3 жыл бұрын
I have copies of the several FBI files on John Lennon and the files on the other members of the Beatles. The U.S. government really was afraid of Lennon's influence and pacifist ideology spreading throughout much of America. The files are an interesting read. About a decade ago, a full length movie went into the contents of some parts of the formerly Secret FBI files.
@robiandolo 2 жыл бұрын
Can you get those online? I’d like to check those out.
@robertschlesinger1342 2 жыл бұрын
@@robiandolo The released FBI files on John Lennon and others are available online. The FBI website has an FOIA section. That is a good place to start by using keywords, live "John Lennon", "Yoko Ono", and "Beatles". Remember, there are usually a plurality of files under each keyword . Nixon seemed fearful of Lennon's activist position on pacifism because it could derail the peace negotiations in Paris with North Vietnam. It was a complicated mess and Nixon seemed increasingly paranoid, especially prior to and during the Watergate scandal.
@robiandolo 2 жыл бұрын
@@robertschlesinger1342 TY
@georgiaflame9743 Жыл бұрын
THE U.S. VERSUS JOHN LENNON
@user-ej5gx7ph7q 9 ай бұрын
Well, with a divide and conquer market economy that invented different human races, does it surprise anyone
@mpf7371 3 жыл бұрын
Married in 1969, not 67
@patriciarussell1177 3 жыл бұрын
Make love not war has never been forgotten!!! nor has John Lennon been forgotten!!!
@georgiaflame9743 Жыл бұрын
rock 'n' people
@EveryoneIsStupidButMe Жыл бұрын
Who?
@XLCOR 3 жыл бұрын
The 'summer of love was in 1967. Lennon's and Ono's marriage and bed-in was in 1969.
@relaxbro7671 3 жыл бұрын
Legend John
@ruthsmith3448 3 жыл бұрын
All this stuff about Lennon being a wife beater. A radical. How many people go through phases in their life? Bad or worse then change their lives or beliefs for the better? Because life is a learning process. I think John Lennon was in a good place when he died. He had opened up communications with his eldest son, Julian, loved his adopted city and home, semi retired to domestic life, then went back to music and produced some great songs. I think he learned alot of lessons in his life and left this world a better place. His fans and music are proof of that.
@senseichess8688 3 жыл бұрын
Well said my friend
@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
According to his first wife Cynthia's Autobiography. He was a wife beater., and quotes a specific occasion. when they were at a club, with friends, and John punched Cynthia in the face, after she danced with a mutual friend. '''I'm just a Jealous Guy'' ?
@barbj9785 10 ай бұрын
Her book said he slapped her. Im sure it was more than once but she probably didnt want to sound like a fool for staying with someone who used to slap her around. What would have happened if he slapped Yoko? She would have cast a spell on him or give him some rotten drink to make him sick (so says May Pang when Yoko gave him something awful to drink and he was sick for days) @@MrDaiseymay
@Turtledove2009 3 ай бұрын
I absolutely agree with you. John was not perfect, nor was he the demon people wilfully and meanly put forward. Besides, it's his creativity and talent I admire the most. And his wish for world peace and promotion of love. He had his demons but believed that love was the answer - and I agree.
@darylcumming7119 3 жыл бұрын
Extreme paranoia about the 1960's youth culture.
@brianlindsey17 2 жыл бұрын
Fascists tend to do that when they feel their pathetic control and power is threatened
@sueboyd9345 2 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile, as our government worries about a musical legend, tons of kidnappings, rapes and clergy abuse went unseen at this time.
@curtisthomas2670 3 жыл бұрын
They also had files on Helen Keller and John Denver. John fvcking Denver. Wth
@MysticHeather 2 жыл бұрын
As well as Jean seberg
@kevinkent9194 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video
@seabassseabass8835 3 жыл бұрын
Another good read...the letters and post cards sent to each other...or among the inner circle...
@32mybelle 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant musician, revolutionary. Anything you hear today is because of Lennon\McCartney.
@EveryoneIsStupidButMe Жыл бұрын
AH HAAA!! no.
@keeponrollin7922 5 күн бұрын
Quiet a bit though,they definitley changed the culture of America when they arrived
@tomobedlam297 3 жыл бұрын
"He was a man, take him for all in all: I shall not look upon his like again". 😔
@jaxson360 3 жыл бұрын
Who said that?
@tomobedlam297 3 жыл бұрын
Hamlet
@jaxson360 3 жыл бұрын
@@tomobedlam297 thank you sir
@RussellBarth 3 жыл бұрын
the Bed-In was 1969
@juanamigo 3 жыл бұрын
It was, and Nixon’s inauguration was in ‘69 too. Times and dates get messed with a lot in this genre of videos.
@RussellBarth 3 жыл бұрын
@@juanamigo they said 67 when they meant 69
@stupendous1068 3 жыл бұрын
Subtitles say 1969.
@beasleybrother1 Жыл бұрын
The fact the FBI knew where the daughter was and didn’t follow thru, though the Lennon’s had legal custody is kind of cruel
@stormytempest3907 3 жыл бұрын
Hi,. I'm from Liverpool, John was a tipical Old school Scouser later on, middle class upbringing by Aunt mimmi, mixed with alot of characters did john in Liverpool, it was a melting pot back then, (still is ) Dockers, Chinese, Black people, rich and alot of poor people, Irish folk, took it all in, when in USA John spoke up about things, thing is upset alot of misguided powerful people, was he killed by American establishment assassin ( brainwashed by CIA ) don't know myself, was on his way back to England I believe probably would spoken up about Thatcher (politian) and what she had planned for parts of UK...oh yea especially LIVERPOOL, which deep down he knew he wanted to help and inspire, peace and love.🎸🇬🇧🇺🇸
@petabulmer7345 3 жыл бұрын
That the had files on him is ridiculous! He was a performer with ideas, and so are lots of people! He was not dangerous!
@robiandolo 2 жыл бұрын
You just gave the reason they had files! He had ideas! This is relevant today your ideas are wrong, our ideas are right! That’s the deep state position.
@I....l....I 2 жыл бұрын
@@robiandolo Also they don't want you to think for yourself. THEY tell you you what to think.
@stevenlennon12 2 жыл бұрын
They trampled on his first amendment rights for years. I don't like that shit
@georgiaflame9743 Жыл бұрын
elvis snitched to nixon
@pedrojulio1960 Жыл бұрын
I think for sure he smoke marihuana.
@sheatetables 3 жыл бұрын
Wish he'd been deported. Then he would've gone back to Britain where he could have been with his family, said whatever he wanted, and probably would have never gotten shot
@BlackForestKaiser 3 жыл бұрын
LOL they have less freedom of speech there than we do here dumb ass people get arrested in the UK every day for facebook posts you are very ill informed man.
@ethanwoolnough9399 3 жыл бұрын
@@BlackForestKaiser better than being shot dead…
@BlackForestKaiser 3 жыл бұрын
@@ethanwoolnough9399 Yea because guns don't exist in the U.K. criminals always aquire items through official means. And you're right the FBI or CIA or whoever couldn't have followed him to the U.K. a country that co-operates with U.S. law enforcement daily.
@35jfish 3 жыл бұрын
Such an icon
@bobbybishop8426 3 жыл бұрын
Lennon was ok but personally had zero use for Yoko.
@cindyfedack317 3 жыл бұрын
Then why did he marry her he left his first wife for her
@bobbybishop8426 3 жыл бұрын
@@cindyfedack317 Because guys do stupid things when smitten. lol
@bobf.5538 3 жыл бұрын
She first had her sights on Paul ...who wanted nothing to do with her .she found a rich Beatle to help with her so called art and career ..
@tdunph4250 3 жыл бұрын
@@bobbybishop8426 That's a piss poor excuse. You have a hate on for Yoko and to me that is insulting John. She obviously had talent and was a great influence over John. I don't think he was that stupid. I am sure he would have figured her out during the first year or so that they knew each other.
@jerrybeck7749 3 жыл бұрын
@@cindyfedack317 because after 1000 hits of LSD you get crazy Yoko 😂😎
@carolwilliams9782 3 жыл бұрын
John was my favorite Beatle before ono
@tobbyhappy3572 3 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@debradonato7363 3 жыл бұрын
On Display at The Rock& Roll Hall of Fame ♥️♥️♥️♥️
@apoormansempire 3 жыл бұрын
All we are saying is give peas a chance. That's the famous lyric we use on our girls to get them to eat peas.
@AnnaLVajda 2 жыл бұрын
So he saw a UFO and the FBI decided to stalk him but Yokos abducted daughter they could not be bothered to look for?
@stevenlennon12 2 жыл бұрын
And they didn't follow the 911 hijackers when they knew they were here with ties to the 93 bombing of the towers
@georgiaflame9743 Жыл бұрын
yeah, cox (the daddy) who joined a christian cult
@eoin79 3 жыл бұрын
Thirty seconds in you say the "bed in"happened in 1967. It happened in 69. Hmmmmm.
@johnnymac4997 2 жыл бұрын
why do they always have to have the blurring racket music playing in the none background all the time?
@maccalex 3 жыл бұрын
The bed in was 1969 not 1967.
@TheAnthonybellomo 3 жыл бұрын
What is the background song of this video?
@jacobstopper3804 3 жыл бұрын
Hi there
@Punk-Mask 2 жыл бұрын
Based
@AntiGlobalistForum 2 ай бұрын
It’s funny how politicians and bankers are so concerned about nations being at peace with one another. Obviously this stops them from profiting, hating one another is just going along with their game. RIP John Lennon
@JusticeForWilmien 3 жыл бұрын
You can't even get the date of their bed-in correct and by linking Vietnam to it you are also getting all the events linked to its date wrong. So how are we supposed to trust your research on the rest of this video?
@austinhealey1120 3 жыл бұрын
Just a crazy Lone gunman tho....
@senseichess8688 3 жыл бұрын
@Kevin Purdy what facts do you have to back this up
@senseichess8688 3 жыл бұрын
apparently so
@patriciaeddy7629 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, if John's murder were investigated,it would just end up another warren report story and the lone gunman scenario. Let all go.
@jchow5966 3 жыл бұрын
Icon saw him as a threat to him.
@alfinandy1612 3 жыл бұрын
the father of hipsters right here
@patriciarussell1177 3 жыл бұрын
I thought that out of my bed piece and all that quite interesting can anyone else buy it?
@CNCTEMATIC 6 ай бұрын
next to zero info on what the files said...
@ajporter7487 2 жыл бұрын
If Nixon deported him he would still be alive.
@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 Жыл бұрын
Perhaps Nixon had the foresight knowing that Lennon was in trouble if he stayed in the US and he thought sending him back to England safe and sound would save his life... 🤔
@robiandolo 3 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure that 69 not 67.
@accountgooglenotvisibile2838 Жыл бұрын
FBI call me but not away
@jamesschwartz3837 2 жыл бұрын
What does the ‘67 summer of love have to do with any of this? Nixon was elected in ‘68 and took office in ‘69. The same year John & Yoko were married and had multiple bed ins.
@aunch3 3 жыл бұрын
John just didn’t like authority in general, stemming from his childhood and the snobby class-oriented culture in England. He went thru a lot of phases. By the late 70s he shrugged off his former activism as young but naive idealism, like so many other kids from the 60s.
@stevenlennon12 2 жыл бұрын
That authority illegally trampled his first amendment rights. Hope they don't follow u and tap ur phones for your presidential preferences
@meyerj75 3 жыл бұрын
Hmmm. They made a movie about Richard Nixon meeting Elvis Presley but not Nixon against John Lennon.
@sharonchevalier922 3 жыл бұрын
United States vs John Lennon
@patriciaeddy7629 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Nixon ask Elvis to watch that John Lennon.lol that's really funny.....Elvis is the one that died of his drug overdose......Poor, Fat Man !
@jimmyhoffa618 Жыл бұрын
Elvis is an American and served his country when he was drafted. John Lennon should have stayed the out of American politics. He was and is a festered asshole
@RandyR Жыл бұрын
Read Jon Wieners books 📚 Was a special quest at. LA Beatlefest. The Blue Meanie lost.
@karinteves1412 10 ай бұрын
I really wonder what Lennon´s opinion would be about all the crazy stuff we now see culturally and in politics. Yoko Ono and the two remaining Beatles are mum on the subject. Mc Cartney did go so far as to claim Obama as the greatest president ever. WTF!
@Wayfinder_Triko 3 жыл бұрын
i still like the Beatles they are cool
@dcluvspie5777 2 жыл бұрын
So John Lennon was Based as fuck neat....
@radiomindchatter7994 3 жыл бұрын
Wasn't married in 1967..that was 1969
@adayinthelife5772 2 жыл бұрын
Cannabis was at the center of all of this. Think about it. At least it was the scapegoat.
@gns423 3 жыл бұрын
I guess it’s ok to express political views in pop music, but I personally don’t care for it anymore. It becomes propaganda and I really don’t care to hear it in music.
@tdunph4250 3 жыл бұрын
@Gary Spinelli Tell that to Bono...
@sharonchevalier922 3 жыл бұрын
You guess it's ok? And where would appropriate be if not in music? Propaganda for Peace, now that is something I can get behind!
@MysticHeather 2 жыл бұрын
Music is a personal form of expression from the artist, if you can’t share feelings, thoughts and ideas in ART where can you share it?!
@ciacutout Жыл бұрын
Please read this. Hoover had a THING about John Lennon, but Hoover died in 1972. Other people at the CIA and FBI also had a thing about Lennon. At the time, it was stated that Mark David Chapman, told police that The Catcher in The Rye told him to shoot John Lennon. In 1980, I was 21 years old, and my grandmother had a SIGNED copy of J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in The Rye". Mr. Salinger was a long time friend of my CIA family. He was the founder of CIC (Counter Intelligence Corp) recruited by my grandfather William S. Paley, Google and read about both men. As I later found out, this book and others Salinger wrote had MESSAGES in the print (microdots that you can't see) to tell other operatives to kill. These are true words I speak, even though the CIA rectorus holes don't like it, come an get me.....Lennon's widow may know this, but would never speak it PUBLICLY, but I will. Bothe Paley and Salinger put their BACK UP RECORDS in microdots in their books...there I have said my peace...
@ribeirojorge5064 Жыл бұрын
Imagine... it's a utopia of the mind of an irresponsible and immature child !!!
@SJUCityBoy 3 жыл бұрын
And the biggest file, that he was the most contradictory and abusive hypocrite. The same guy who professed "peace and love" was the same guy who abused Julian and his mother, and got into many bar fights. Yeah. Imagine that.
@spoffy_9243 3 жыл бұрын
he preached for love and peace after he realized what he is doing is wrong, people can change y'know
@tommurf 3 жыл бұрын
John was deeply flawed but aren’t we all? I agree he didn’t always live his personal life in the same message as he portrayed to the public but he did far more good than evil and continues to inspire a generation of kids to be better to this day 40 years after his death. I think that deserves some recognition
@chrismcdowell7138 3 жыл бұрын
I assume that you have regrets for what you have done in your past, or currently doing? People learn, and grow, realizing our past behaviors should not be tolerated. So yes, what Mr. Lennon did/may have done, in his past, should not be overlooked. But I am sure, with the help of his family, friends, and therapy sessions, he would have done his best to reflect and eventually correct?
@stevelawrie9115 3 жыл бұрын
This is a condition that many are doomed to repeat after they have suffered the same thing themselves. You really have to be there to really know but I think that it wasn't so much abuse as neglect.
@MrKapowster 3 жыл бұрын
You can see a change in his character directly after he does acid with George
@ciacutout Жыл бұрын
Also notice in this video at about 10:04 the trad centers and the yellow fabric blinders in the middle, where one of the planes would later hit. Come and kill me FBI
@rickwalcott3984 3 жыл бұрын
gov't. wet work?
@sinbaon2154 3 жыл бұрын
Big Boss Sent Us.
@petekdemircioglu Жыл бұрын
Maniacs
@christophermorgan3261 3 жыл бұрын
Was John ever unaccompanied by a camera crew?
@Barbs_Collectibles 3 жыл бұрын
😡😡
@cowanthegreat8966 2 жыл бұрын
Okay, I guess I'm on the FBI's side now.
@cindienolin564 3 жыл бұрын
Not 67' ..69
@the_local_bigamist 3 жыл бұрын
John and Yoko are heroes.
@colderbeer 3 жыл бұрын
Yoko is a piece of shit. She is DIRECTLY responsible for Julian Lennon getting NO MONEY from his father's estate when his father John Lennon died.
@the_local_bigamist 3 жыл бұрын
@@colderbeer Show me a reliable source for your claim, in which it is factually proven.
@pedrojulio1960 Жыл бұрын
😂😂 hippies. Go LGTB feminista BLM to work.
@belladonna4666 3 жыл бұрын
Dude was a pos fr
@MrAschiff 3 жыл бұрын
They were in bed in 1969 not 1967
@fromka52 3 жыл бұрын
No mention of this man’s public persona of “peace” is the fact that he was a wife-beater. Hypocrisy.
@waste3128 3 жыл бұрын
he literally hit his girlfriend once as a teen and didnt hit any of his wives after that, and his peace events are a decade apart stop waffling like a brainlet lmafo
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@vintageradioman Жыл бұрын
These war criminals killed the poor guy.
@EveryoneIsStupidButMe Жыл бұрын
Lennon is an anti-American foreigner activist, our forefathers fought and died to be free of British influences like him
@scottphillips7108 3 жыл бұрын
Antifa are the white panthers of our day...
@thedonofthsht76-58 3 жыл бұрын
Antifa are a bunch of entitled white kids that are ironically fascist despite their name. Look what they did when they had their own little town. There were rapes, murder, drug dealing. Yet these are the people that think their ideas are the way to go..
@tdunph4250 3 жыл бұрын
Domestic Terrorist Organization. Plain and simple.
@gratch46 3 жыл бұрын
Spoke of peace and love.......beat the crap out of women.
@senseichess8688 3 жыл бұрын
No he didn't nitwit
@robiandolo 3 жыл бұрын
WTF is it about Chicago? These guys are the same people who brought Obama to prominence. Lennon got snookered.
@andyv16012 3 жыл бұрын
Love, Peace and Socialism is the answer. Says the Wife beater.
@clah399 3 жыл бұрын
Never liked him as a person, sure he was a great song writer. But when he married Yolo. He went off the wall.
@AngelicusImmortus 3 жыл бұрын
They were both narcissists. Achieving little but claiming to have done more. It’s pretty lame really. The weakest musician in a legendary band showing no real talent but an ability to manipulate people into believing he was some kind of messianic figure.
@aunch3 3 жыл бұрын
Weakest musician? Lol okay guy. John was all over the place and complicated. He had a revolutionary phase but towards the late 70s he shrugged it off as a phase when he was young, like many 60s kids. Believe it or not he liked Reagan and met him once in ‘75.
@sharonchevalier922 3 жыл бұрын
Weakest musician? Your perspective is screwed. Lennon/McCartney are song writing legends! All four of The Beatles are legends for what they accomplished in music around the world.
@jaycee8334 3 жыл бұрын
John wasn’t, but Yoko sure is a narcissist
@senseichess8688 3 жыл бұрын
Ok scooter...your a real bright bulb
@uuouuo5480 2 жыл бұрын
@@senseichess8688 Bright enough to know the difference between _your_ and _you're_ as well as when/how to use each of them?
@lw3894 3 жыл бұрын
Wiener haha
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