American writer
This article is about the American historian. Not to be confused with
Jon Weiner
.
Jon Wiener
(born May 16, 1944) is an American
historian
and journalist based in
Los Angeles, California
.
[2]
His most recent book is
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
, a
Los Angeles Times
bestseller co-authored by
Mike Davis
.
[4]
[5]
He waged a 25-year legal battle to win the release of the
FBI
's files on
John Lennon
.
[6]
[2]
Wiener played a key role in efforts to expose the surveillance, as well as the behind-the-scenes battling between the government and the former
Beatle
, and is an expert on the FBI-versus-Lennon controversy.
[7]
[8]
A professor emeritus of
United States history
at the
University of California, Irvine
and host of
The Nation
'
s weekly
podcast
,
Start Making Sense
,
[9]
he is also a contributing editor to the progressive political weekly magazine
The Nation
.
[10]
[11]
He also hosts a weekly radio program in Los Angeles.
[12]
Set the Night on Fire
(2020) is a movement history of Los Angeles. The backbone of the book is the story of the civil rights, Black power and Chicano movements, as well as the anti-war movement, gay liberation and women's liberation and the battles between young people and the
LAPD
on
Sunset Strip
and at
Venice Beach
. The counterculture provides another focus?the Ash Grove folk music club, the
LA Free Press
,
KPFK
radio and the Free Clinic.
Early life
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]
Wiener was born in
Saint Paul, Minnesota
,
[2]
the son of Gladys (nee Aronsohn) and Dr. Daniel Wiener.
[13]
He graduated from
Central High School
and then attended
Princeton University
where he founded a chapter of the
Students for a Democratic Society
to
protest the Vietnam War
.
[14]
He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1966,
[2]
[14]
and earned a
Ph.D.
from
Harvard
, where he worked with
Barrington Moore, Jr.
and
Michael Walzer
, and also wrote for the underground paper
The Old Mole
.
[2]
Career
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Academic career
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At the
University of California, Irvine
, Wiener taught history courses on American politics and the
Cold War
. His scholarly works have been published in
The American Historical Review
,
The Journal of American History
,
Radical History Review
,
[15]
and
Past & Present
. He led students on visits to the
Nixon Library
.
[16]
[17]
[18]
Journalism and political commentary
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]
Since 1984, Wiener has been a contributing editor for
The Nation
magazine,
[19]
where he has written about diverse topics including campus issues, intellectual controversies, and southern California politics. His writing has also appeared in
The Guardian
,
The New York Times Magazine
,
The New Republic
, and the
Los Angeles Times
.
[20]
[21]
[22]
Wiener hosted a weekly podcast for The Nation, “Start Making Sense,” and a weekly radio program for Los Angeles radio station KPFK 90.7 FM.
In his journalism, Wiener, writing in the
Los Angeles Times
at the beginning of 2020, correctly predicted that 2020 would be "The Worst Year of Trump’s Life."
[23]
He interviewed Chinese dissident artist Ai Wei Wei about the international refugee crisis?the subject of Ai's film "Human Flow."
[24]
He interviewed Georgia's voting rights organizer Stacey Abrams about her work.
[25]
And he spoke with the award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood about “the shocking relevance of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
[26]
He also has written on historical topics ? on the 50th anniversary of the My Lai Massacre, he wrote about the "forgotten hero" who "stopped the My Lai massacre," quoting from his interview for KPFK with army helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson.
[27]
And he wrote for the New York Times Book Review about how the sixties are remembered in America.
[28]
While Wiener is perhaps best known for his battling to expose the FBI's surveillance of
John Lennon
, he also was instrumental in getting the FBI to release documents about its surveillance of comedian
Groucho Marx
.
[29]
[30]
Wiener and the Lennon FBI files
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Chronology of Wiener v. FBI
Dates
|
Event
|
Notes
|
1969
|
Lennon releases the single
"
Give Peace a Chance
"
|
|
1971?1972
|
FBI closely monitors Lennon
|
[6]
|
1972-03-06
|
INS
tries to deport Lennon
|
[19]
[31]
|
1973-03
|
Judge rules Lennon must leave
US in two months
|
[32]
|
1973-06
|
Lennon countersues US
|
[32]
[33]
|
1976-06
|
Lennon wins countersuit;
can stay in US
|
[32]
[34]
|
1980-12-10
|
John Lennon murdered
|
|
1981
|
Wiener researches book
on Lennon
|
[6]
|
1981
|
Wiener requests documents
Gets some, most held back
|
[6]
[35]
[36]
|
1981
|
Wiener sues FBI
to release documents
|
[6]
|
1983
|
FBI claims national
security danger
|
|
1991
|
9th circuit court: FBI
didn't show "adequate
grounds" for secrecy
|
[1]
|
1992
|
Justice Dept appeals
9th Circuit decision
to Supreme Court
|
[1]
|
1992
|
Court refuses appeal,
sides with Wiener/ACLU
|
[1]
|
1997
|
FBI releases more documents
except for ten documents
|
[6]
|
2000
|
Report: Lennon may have
secretly funded
IRA
says
MI5
doubted by Lennon supporters
|
[37]
|
2004
|
Federal judge orders
remaining ten
documents released
|
[6]
|
2004
|
FBI agrees to release
final 10 documents
|
[6]
|
2006-12-20
|
FBI releases final
eight
[35]
or ten documents
|
[38]
|
2006
|
The U.S. Versus John Lennon
Documentary; Wiener is consultant
|
[2]
[19]
|
2006-12-21
|
Wiener discussed contents of
declassified material on NPR
|
[36]
|
Background
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The legal battle between Wiener and the United States government was waged over two and a half decades, and has been examined by other historians.
[39]
In the late sixties, many young Americans became opposed to the
Vietnam War
, and John Lennon became an antiwar advocate who made then-president
Richard Nixon
nervous about his reelection prospects in 1972. The consensus view is that Nixon asked the FBI to begin surveillance of Lennon, possibly after Lennon went to New York on a visa and met up with radical anti-war activists.
[19]
Government surveillance of Lennon had been extensive,
[40]
although there was no documentary evidence of wiretapping,
[35]
and lasted about 11 months.
[32]
The attempt to deport Lennon
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The
Immigration and Naturalization Service
, acting on a suggestion from Senator
Strom Thurmond
,
[41]
and probably at the behest of Richard Nixon, ordered Lennon to be deported in the spring of 1972.
[1]
[19]
According to Wiener's account, the key issue for the Nixon administration was that Lennon had been talking to anti-war leaders about a "tour that would combine rock music with anti-war organizing and voter registration," possibly as a way to court first-time eighteen-year-old voters, who were believed to have a tendency to vote for the
Democratic
party.
[41]
[42]
[43]
Reporter Adam Cohen writing in 2006 in
The New York Times
agreed that the FBI surveillance of Lennon had been motivated not only by antiwar concerns but by concerns of a political nature.
[40]
According to Cohen, what was most revealing was that the timing of these events suggested there was an underlying political motivation behind the surveillance and deportation proceedings.
[40]
Numerous friends, including folk singer
Bob Dylan
,
[44]
wrote letters to the Immigration and Naturalization Service advocating that Lennon should be allowed to stay.
[44]
On December 8, 1972, after Nixon's reelection in November, the FBI closed its investigation of Lennon, partially because Lennon has shown "inactivity in Revolutionary Activities."
[45]
According to Wiener, the FBI had succeeded in "neutralizing" Lennon's opposition to Nixon's reelection.
[45]
John Lennon was murdered in December 1980.
Wiener vs. the FBI
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In 1981, while conducting research for a book about
John Lennon
, Wiener learned of the
FBI
surveillance,
[1]
and that there were either 281 or 400
[35]
pages of files on the ex-Beatle. Wiener requested the release of the FBI's files on Lennon by citing the
Freedom of Information Act
. The FBI refused to release two-thirds
[35]
or 199 pages
[46]
of the files on the grounds that they contained "national security" information. The pages that were released were heavily blacked out with magic marker, or
redacted
.
[47]
In 1983, Wiener sued the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act with assistance from the
ACLU
of Southern California,
[1]
[38]
including attorneys Dan Marmalefsky of
Morrison & Foerster
and Mark Rosenbaum of the ACLU.
[38]
In response, the FBI turned over some documents, but withheld others claiming they contained "national security information provided by a foreign government under an explicit promise of confidentiality" and added that releasing the documents could lead to "military retaliation against the United States."
[1]
Wiener chronicled much of his frustration with getting documents in his 1984 book
Come Together
including many "Orwellian moments" during the "tortoise-like progress" of the lawyers.
[32]
While Wiener lost many of the early "skirmishes", a turning point came in 1991 when the
9th Circuit
appeals court ruled in his favor, and declared that the FBI had failed to provide "adequate grounds" to keep the data secret.
[48]
As a result, the FBI had to keep filing affidavits which had "sufficient detail" which allowed Wiener to keep advocating for their release, and for judges to "intelligently judge" the contest, according to several reports.
[38]
[48]
Then justice department lawyer
John Roberts
, who later became Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court
, appealed the decision,
[38]
but the Supreme Court at the time sided with Wiener and the ACLU.
[48]
The case of
Wiener v FBI
escalated over many years.
[49]
A settlement with the FBI was reached in 1997
[2]
before the case could be heard before the
Supreme Court
, and most documents except ten were released to Wiener as part of the agreement.
[6]
According to Wiener, the government paid $204,000 in court costs and attorney fees.
[32]
The justice department lawyers retained ten documents under the national security proviso of the
FOIA
.
[1]
In 2006, the final eight or ten documents of Lennon's file were released.
[6]
[50]
According to Wiener, the ten pages revealed there had been contacts between Lennon and leftist and anti-war groups in London in the early 1970s but that there had been no signs that government officials saw Lennon as a serious threat,
[6]
[38]
and only regarded solicitation of funds for a "left-wing bookshop and reading room in London" but that Lennon did not provide any funds for this purpose.
[48]
Wiener wrote:
I doubt that Tony Blair's government will launch a military strike on the U.S. in retaliation for the release of these documents ... Today, we can see that the national security claims that the FBI has been making for 25 years were absurd from the beginning.
Wiener expressed amazement that so much of the information had been withheld:
One of the items here is a report from an undercover agent on a meeting of anti-war radicals in the East Village ... The undercover agent reports ? this is to J. Edgar Hoover ? that at this loft in the East Village, there is a parrot, and whenever the conversation gets heated, the parrot shouts, "Right on!" Now, it's kind of mildly interesting, but why does J. Edgar Hoover need to know this? Why should this be classified "confidential"?
?
Jon Wiener, in 2000, in an interview
[35]
[51]
Chronicling the case
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Wiener wrote about his legal battles in his book,
Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files
, published by the University of California Press in 2000.
[52]
The book includes copies of 100 key documents from the Lennon file, including "lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges."
[53]
He also wrote about the case and its significance for
The Guardian
,
The Nation
, the
L.A. Times
, and
The New Republic
.
Wiener's work provided the basis for the 2006 documentary
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
.
[54]
Wiener served as a historical consultant to the production and also appears in the film.
[55]
He also appears in the documentary
LENNONYC
, which aired on the PBS show "American Masters" in 2010.
[56]
He was interviewed about the Lennon FBI Files by Terry Gross on the NPR program "Fresh Air."
ACLU
attorney Mark Rosenbaum said that the
Wiener v FBI
case revealed "government paranoia at a pathological level and an attempt to shield executive branch abuse of civil liberties under the rubric of national security."
[57]
Books
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Wiener is the author of seven books. In addition to his co-authored 2020 book
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
, Wiener also wrote
Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud and Power in the Ivory Tower.
[58]
he examined various academic scandals and concluded that media spectacles end careers only when powerful, usually right-leaning external groups demand punishment.
[59]
He also edited and wrote the introduction to
Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
which included an abridged transcript of the
1968 Chicago Conspiracy trial
; in that trial,
Bobby Seale
,
Abbie Hoffman
,
Jerry Rubin
,
Dave Dellinger
and others faced charges stemming from anti-war demonstrations at the
Democratic National Convention
, and witnesses included
Timothy Leary
,
Norman Mailer
,
Arlo Guthrie
, and
Allen Ginsberg
; the book includes an afterword by defendant
Tom Hayden
and drawings by
Jules Feiffer
.
[60]
Wiener's earlier book
How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America
, based on his visits to
Cold War
monuments, museums, and memorials, emphasizes popular skepticism about America's victory.
[61]
Critical reaction
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Reactions by critics to Wiener's writings has been varied.
[62]
[63]
[64]
[65]
Kirkus Reviews called
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
"a richly detailed portrait of a city that seethed with rebellious energy."
[66]
The reviewer for the
Los Angeles Times
described it as "a dense, detailed read" that was “authoritative and impressive.”
[67]
The
LA Review of Books
called it "a monumental history of rebellion and resistance."
[68]
Some reviewers found problems with the book ?
Publishers Weekly
said it was an "overstuffed and often disjointed account" but declared that "Davis and Wiener write with passion and deep knowledge,” and concluded that the book was “an indispensable portrait of an unexplored chapter in history."
[69]
On April 22, 2020, in
The Guardian
'
s
Book of the Day
,
Ben Ehrenreich
called it "a vital primer in resistance, a gift to the future from the past."
[70]
Among his earlier books, the
New York Times Book Review
wrote that Wiener's book
Come Together: John Lennon in His Time
"stands out as one of the few books that don't want to deify, dish the dirt about or otherwise exploit the slain former Beatle."
[65]
A second review of this book criticized Wiener's perspective for being "tunnel-visioned".
[71]
He has been criticized by
Andrew Sullivan
of
The Atlantic
.
[72]
Wiener's
Gimme Some Truth
received positive reviews in
The Washington Post
,
London Independent
, and the
Christian Science Monitor
. A review of Wiener's book
Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower
criticized Wiener for having a left-leaning bias.
[73]
One reviewer described Wiener's
Gimme Some Truth
book as "sobering".
[74]
Selected bibliography
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- Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
, by Jon Wiener and Mike Davis, Verso (publisher), April 14, 2020,
ISBN
978-1784780227
- I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics
?interviews with
Gore Vidal
[75]
[76]
- How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America.
[2]
Berkeley:
University of California Press
, 2012.
ISBN
9780520271418
.
- Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
. Edited with an introduction by Jon Wiener; afterword by Tom Hayden; drawings by Jules Feiffer. New York: The New Press, 2006.
ISBN
9781565848337
- Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower
. New York:
The New Press
, 2005.
ISBN
9781565848849
[19]
[77]
- Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files
Berkeley:
University of California Press
, 2000.
ISBN
9780520222465
[1]
[2]
[78]
- Professors, Politics and Pop
. London and New York:
Verso Books
, 1991.
ISBN
9780860916727
- Come Together: John Lennon in his Time
New York:
Random House
, 1984.
ISBN
9780252061318
[1]
[19]
- Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1865-1885
. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press
, 1978.
ISBN
9780807108888
- "The Footnote Fetish." Telos 31 (Spring 1977). New York: Telos Press.
See also
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References
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Weinstein, Henry (December 20, 2006).
"FBI to release last of its John Lennon files"
.
The Los Angeles Times
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May 31,
2012
.
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Wiener, Jon (May 21, 2012).
"Jon Wiener"
.
The Nation
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May 21,
2012
.
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Note: estimate assumes began career at age 30
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Davis, Mike; Wiener, Jon (2020).
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
. [S.l.]: Verso.
ISBN
978-1-78478-022-7
.
OCLC
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.
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.
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. Retrieved
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. Associated Press. December 21, 2006
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2012
.
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"FBI Releases Last Pages From Lennon File"
.
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. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
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Wiener, Jon (February 25, 2000).
"John Lennon's MI5-FBI Files"
.
Common Dreams
. Archived from
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on March 21, 2013
. Retrieved
June 2,
2012
.
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"Emeriti Faculty"
.
www.humanities.uci.edu
.
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. April 2, 2010.
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"Start Making Sense"
. October 22, 2015.
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"Living In The USA"
.
KPFK 90.7 FM
. September 2, 2023.
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"Gladys Aronsohn (Wiener) Spratt"
.
Duluth News Tribune
. July 12, 2009. Archived from
the original
on April 9, 2019
. Retrieved
October 21,
2018
.
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a
b
Anna Windemuth (November 18, 2016).
"Princeton students stage sanctuary campus walk-out"
.
... Wiener is the host and producer of "Start Making Sense,"... professor emeritus of history at UC Irvine. ... A member of Princeton's class of 1966, Jon Wiener founded the Princeton chapter of Students for a Democratic Society to protest the Vietnam War when he was a student ... he thinks the sanctuary movement is a great cause ...
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"The Scholar Squirrels and the National Security State: An Interview with Gore Vidal -- Jon Wiener"
.
Radical History Review
. Spring 1989
. Retrieved
June 2,
2012
.
Non-Thematic Issue -- Issues 44
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Nagourney, Adam (August 6, 2010).
"Watergate Becomes Sore Point at Nixon Library"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
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William M. Welch (April 1, 2011).
"Nixon library now tells full Watergate story"
.
USA Today
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
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Nagourney, Adam (September 12, 2011).
"What's a Presidential Library to Do?"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
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"Uncovering The 'Truth' Behind Lennon's FBI Files"
.
NPR
. October 8, 2010
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
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Welch, Matt (September 9, 2011).
"In fact, on Dec. 7, 1951, Pearl Harbor wasn't remembered"
.
Reason Magazine
. Retrieved
June 2,
2012
.
Writing in the L.A. Times, Jon Wiener compares two 10-year anniversaries.
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Wiener, Jon (January 25, 2012).
"When art and politics collided in L.A.: The Tower of Protest, being rebuilt as part of Pacific Standard Time, incited passion and vandalism for a few months in 1966"
.
Los Angeles Times
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
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Jon Wiener (book reviewer) (January 13, 2002).
"Survival During a Dark Time (book review title) A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, By Ruth Kluger (book and author being reviewed)"
.
Los Angeles Times
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
- ^
"Opinion: 2020 will be the worst year of Trump's life"
.
Los Angeles Times
. January 1, 2020
. Retrieved
November 16,
2020
.
- ^
Wiener, Jon (October 13, 2017).
"Ai Weiwei on the Refugee Crisis: 'People Have Been Forced Into a State of Movement'
"
.
The Nation
.
ISSN
0027-8378
. Retrieved
November 16,
2020
.
- ^
Wiener, Jon (April 5, 2019).
"Stacey Abrams: 'Open That Door'
"
.
The Nation
.
ISSN
0027-8378
. Retrieved
November 16,
2020
.
- ^
Wiener, Jon (April 28, 2017).
"Margaret Atwood: The Shocking Relevance of 'The Handmaid's Tale'
"
.
The Nation
.
ISSN
0027-8378
. Retrieved
November 16,
2020
.
- ^
"Op-Ed: A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today"
.
Los Angeles Times
. March 16, 2018
. Retrieved
November 16,
2020
.
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Wiener, Jon (June 8, 2016).
"
'Witness to the Revolution,' by Clara Bingham"
.
The New York Times
.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
November 16,
2020
.
- ^
Smith, Dinitia (September 14, 1998).
"Would Groucho Have Joined a Party That Would Have Him as a Member?"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
- ^
Tribune News Services (September 14, 1998).
"Groucho Marx Was On Fbi's Watch List"
.
Chicago Tribune
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
- ^
Wiener, Jon (1999).
"Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files"
.
University of California Press, Berkeley
.
ISBN
978-0-520-22246-5
.
FBI Airtel report; Figure 46 NY-17 of FBI documents; page 194 in Wiener's book
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JONATHAN LEVI (book reviewer) (December 30, 1999).
"The U.S. Campaign Against John Lennon (title of book review) GIMME SOME TRUTH, The John Lennon-FBI Files; by Jon Wiener (title and author of book)"
.
Los Angeles Times
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
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Note: the month is uncertain but the year 1973 is probably right.
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Note: the month is uncertain but the year 1976 is probably right.
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Amy Goodman (interviewer) Jon Wiener (interviewee) (May 25, 2000).
"Gimme Some Truth: The FBI Files of John Lennon"
.
Democracy Now!
. Retrieved
June 2,
2012
.
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a
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"FBI Releases Its Final Files on John Lennon"
.
NPR
. December 21, 2006
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
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Bright, Martin (February 19, 2000).
"Lennon aided IRA, claims MI5 renegade"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
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Weinstein, Henry (December 20, 2006).
"FBI to Release Last of Its John Lennon Files: The U.S. had said such an act could stir military retaliation. The papers, withheld 25 years, don't seem to bear that out"
.
Common Dreams
. Retrieved
June 2,
2012
.
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Friedman (editor), John S.; James Carroll (October 2005).
The Secret Histories: Hidden Truths That Challenged the Past and Changed the World
(First ed.). New York: MacMillan. pp. 252?254.
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0-312-42517-1
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"While Nixon Campaigned, the F.B.I. Watched John Lennon"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
May 21,
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.
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Robert Scheer (interviewer) Jon Wiener (interviewee) (September 12, 2006).
"Jon Wiener on John Lennon (interview)"
.
truthdig
. Retrieved
June 2,
2012
.
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Wiener, Jon (December 18, 2006).
"He didn't have to do it. That's one reason he's still admired"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
May 31,
2012
.
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Wiener, Jon (December 18, 2006).
"He didn't have to do it. That's one reason he's still admired: The FBI campaign against John Lennon shows how far the state can go to deal with stars who refuse to toe the line"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
May 21,
2012
.
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