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February 4, 1972

On February 4, 1972, racist Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina sent a memo to John Mitchell, the Attorney General of the United States that demanded that musician John Lennon be deported. Why? Because the anti-Nixon movement was in full swing and Strom Thurmond thought that if he could force a public figure like Lennon … Continue reading

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