{"id":661,"date":"2010-10-12T14:43:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T19:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=661"},"modified":"2010-10-12T14:43:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T19:43:24","slug":"writer-discovers-updike-aided-john-lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/10\/12\/writer-discovers-updike-aided-john-lennon\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer discovers Updike aided John Lennon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/10\/theusvsjohnlennonposterbig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-662\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/10\/theusvsjohnlennonposterbig-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The <em>Los Angeles Times <\/em>has published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-wiener-john-lennon-deportation-20101008,0,5374920.story\">article<\/a> about &#8220;John Lennon and Yoko Ono&#8217;s deportation battle; The couple had powerful friends who helped them fight and win their deportation battle with the Nixon administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of those &#8220;friends&#8221; was John Updike, who, with fellow writer Joyce Carol Oates, sent a letter in support of Lennon and Ono. Writer and UC-Irvine professor of history Jon Wiener, who used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the information, has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/lennonfbifiles.com\/\">website<\/a> on which he includes a photocopy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/lennonfbifiles.com\/natl_comm_john_yoko\/john_updike.html\">Updike postcard<\/a> written on their behalf. Wiener tells the whole story in his book,\u00a0<em>Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files, <\/em>and the material is also the subject of a documentary, &#8220;The U.S. Versus John Lennon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times has published an article about &#8220;John Lennon and Yoko Ono&#8217;s deportation battle; The couple had powerful friends who helped them fight and win their deportation battle with the Nixon administration.&#8221; One of those &#8220;friends&#8221; was John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/10\/12\/writer-discovers-updike-aided-john-lennon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}