John Lennon's Legacy

We miss you, John!

John Lennon's Legacy:

On the anniversary of John Lennon's murder (Dec. 8, 1980), I've been thinking about his famous argument with Gloria Emerson in December, 1969 – filmed by the BBC, and included in the recent documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon.

Emerson was a celebrated war correspondent for the New York Times who had just returned from the bloody battlefields of Vietnam; Lennon had just written 'Give Peace a Chance' after he and Yoko declared their honeymoon a 'bed-in for peace'--they had stayed in bed for a week, 'in protest against all the violence in the world.'

Emerson told him in her haughty upper class voice, 'You've made yourself ridiculous!'

'I don't care,' Lennon replied, 'if it saves lives.'