John Lennon, The Radical Years

In honor of John Lennon's birthday, we're bringing you an article about the former Beatle turned activist by Bill Weinberg, originally published in the May, 1992 edition of High Times. Why would the FBI want to withhold their files on a rock star who has been dead for over ten years? That's what Jon Wiener wants to know. Jon Wiener is a history professor at UC Irvine who wrote a biography of John Lennon's radical years, Come Together. For the past several years he has been waging a legal battl...