After winning international fame as one of the lead singers of the British rock band called the Beatles, Lennon moved to the United States in 1971 and joined in a number of radical leftist causes. In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon attempted to have him deported for political reasons.
Upon the breakup of John Lennon’s world-famous rock group the Beatles, he and his Japanese-born wife,
John Lennon (left) with his Japanese wife, Yoko Ono, in New York City, in 1972.
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Norman, Philip. John Lennon: The Life. New York: Ecco Press, 2008. Wenner, Jann. Lennon Remembers. 1971. New ed. New York: Verso, 2000. Wiener, Jon. Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S.
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