The Assassination of John Lennon

The Assassination of John Lennon

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The Assassination of John Lennon
The Assassination of John Lennon
Analysing a Yoko Ono ‘Tribute’ video and a ‘Gratitude’ letter she produced and wrote just a few weeks after John’s death.

Analysing a Yoko Ono ‘Tribute’ video and a ‘Gratitude’ letter she produced and wrote just a few weeks after John’s death.

What Yoko Ono said and did in the weeks after her husband’s murder is worth examining.

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Analysing a Yoko Ono ‘Tribute’ video and a ‘Gratitude’ letter she produced and wrote just a few weeks after John’s death.
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On 20th January 1981, Yoko Ono went into an edit suite and produced what she called a ‘tribute video’ for her husband. She wanted to use footage of herself and her husband John Lennon walking in Central Park. Footage which was filmed just a few weeks before John’s assassination and footage which has subsequently been seen a million times in the media ev…

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