Come Together John Lennon in His Time Author:Jon Wiener In the spring of 1972 John Lennon knew that they were after him. Too many people had come to fix the phone. too often cars that were parked outside his Greenwich Village apartment started up as he left the house and obviously "shadowed" him. He knew, too, why they were shadowing him. He planned to do a concert tour in the summer of 197... more »2 to arouse the youth of America to vote against the Vietnam War, against Nixon. They were scared that John Lennon, the ex-Beatle, the radical superstar with opinions and money, just might pull it off, just might interfere with Nixon's reelection plans. He had to be stopped. All it took was a memo from Senator Strom Thurmond to Attorney General John Mitchell: "If Lennon's visa is terminated it would be a strategic counter-measure." America's machine for political repression was set in motion - the FBI and the INS were after the man who dared to sing "Give Peace a Chance."
Was Nixon just being paranoid, or did he really have somethng to fear? How had John Lennon become a political force worthy of "dirty tricks", and the target of the same people who perpetrated the Watergate crimes? Why does the FBI still claim that parts of the Lennon file must be kept secret for reasons of "national defense or foreign policy"?
Now for the first time the whole story of John Lennon's struggle to make the political and the personal come together in his life and music is told against the background of the counterculture's energy, hopes, and contradictions. This powerful and moving portrait captures all of Lennon's humor, warmth and passion.« less