![]() In previous years this would have gone unnoticed, but the recent passage of the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, meant that there might have been a discernible effect on the election. With the Vietnam war still in full swing, Lennon's donation was the first move of a planned US tour, during which he hoped to set up voter-registration booths in concert-venue lobbies and get as many young people signed up as possible, in the hope of voting Nixon out. ![]() Lennon first caught the interest of Hoover and Nixon - allies since the McCarthy witchhunts - in late 1971, when he made a $75,000 donation to an outfit called the Election Year Strategy Information Center, which was gearing up to register voters for the 1972 US Presidential election. ![]() Their documentary focuses on Lennon's political activities in the early 1970s, in the period after he moved to New York, and on the hysterical reaction of the FBI and the Nixon White House to the "threat" of a man whose benign political worldview was plainly stated in his widely-available music. Hoover's bizarre and paranoid outburst is one of the many secrets and revelations that enliven David Leaf and John Scheinfeld's The US Vs John Lennon. ![]() He's warning the White House about that renowned subversive and enemy of the state, John Lennon. ![]()
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