October 8, 2010: NPR Fresh Air revisits a 2000 interview with Jon Wiener about his book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files [listen] [full transcript]
GROSS: Did you find anything in the FBI files that were released to you that indicated that the FBI went beyond surveillance - that they ever tried to set Lennon up?
Prof. WIENER: You know, there's like a couple of documents. Their concern was that Lennon would participate in some kind of concert, rally, anti-war demonstration outside the Republican National Convention. And there's a memo from J. Edgar Hoover to the head of the Miami FBI office that suggests that if Lennon could be arrested on possession of narcotics charges he would become more immediately deportable. Now this seems to me an effort to set Lennon up for a drug bust. The FBI doesnt enforce possession of narcotics charges, that's a state offense, this is not part of what the FBI is supposed to be doing. I then filed a Freedom of Information request with the Miami FBI office, asking for their files on Lennon, to see what their response to this was. They replied to me that their John Lennon file had been destroyed as a part of a routine file destruction procedure.
GROSS: Hmm.
Prof. WIENER: Now I have to note that - know that Lennon files were collected in five other cities and none of those places destroyed their Lennon file, so we wonder what was in the Miami Lennon file that was destroyed.
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top 5 cutest Miis on my Tomodachi island 🗣🗣
Nr. 5: Jaakko (small and goes🗿the whole time. He's also a wife so that adds to his cute charm)
Nr. 4: Häärijä (also small and chronically🗿but he does a lot of happy little dances that make me 🥰🥰)
Nr. 3: Ollie (literal ouppy how can you stay mad at this sad little face 😭 Lill bro just needs a hug and some treats)
Nr. 2: Edgar 🦭 (I'm a bit biased because Edgar's cuteness as a Mii baby genuinely made me scream into a pillow but idc this baby seal is adorable)
Nr 1: .....Tommii?? I must admit that this one doesn't make a lot of sense because I always talk about how weird and unsettling Tommy is (he really does behave strange compared to other Miis which. is saying something) but I can't help it he really is so cute in spite of the forever present psychotic grin 😭)
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Climate activists strike again, this time targeting an Edgar Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Two activists dressed in black suits smeared the plexiglass case and wooden pedestal of Degas’s wax sculpture “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” (1878–1881) with blood-red and petrol-black paint.
“We need our leaders to take serious action, to tell us the truth about what’s happening with the climate,” said activist Joanna Smith while holding her fake-blood-drenched hands up in the air.
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