The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson
Author:James Patterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2020-12-07T00:00:00+00:00
Although moving uptown may have eased some of the coupleâs concerns, it certainly hasnât addressed their biggest problems. The episode at Jerry Rubinâs place has been festering.
âThat situation really woke me up,â Yoko says. âI thought, âOkay, we were so much in love with each other and thatâs why we sacrificed everything, my daughter, everything. It was worth it if we were totally in love with each other. But if he wants to make it with another girl or something, what am I doing?ââ
Yoko confides in their twenty-two-year-old assistant, May Pang. âListen, May,â she says. âJohn and I are not getting along. Weâve been arguing. Weâre growing apart.â
The rift has also been apparent to lawyer Leon Wildes. âThey had a loving relationship and it broke down because of all that pressure,â he says, âNixon being reelected and so on.â
Regardless of their marital troubles, the coupleâs shared revulsion for Nixonâwho has maintained since June 22, 1972, that the White House had no involvement in the failed attempt to bug the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergateâis stronger than ever. The Watergate hearings begin on May 17, 1973, and a month later, on June 18, John and Yoko are given an opportunity to attend in person.
They accept, surely pleased at the chance to observe the people whoâve been persecuting them being held to the fire.
John and Yoko travel together to Washington, DC, to witness testimony from John Dean, who has been ousted as White House counsel over his role in the Watergate scandal. In the first row of spectators sits Deanâs wifeâMrs. Maureen âMoâ Dean, whoâs wearing a towering hairdoâand just behind her is Elvin Bell, an adviser to Nixon during his negotiations with Soviet Union general secretary Leonid Brezhnev (resulting in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, a.k.a. SALT). Bell has a security clearance high enough to win him a second-row seat, but while he is craning his neck to see around Mrs. Dean, a woman taps him on the shoulder and says, âPardon me, please,â as she moves past.
He glances at her and is startled to notice that she and her male companion look familiar.
Suddenly, Bell makes the connection. Itâs John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the famous antiwar artists, whoâve taken the two seats beside his.
John and Yoko strike up a conversation with Bell during a break in the testimony, and their back-and-forth continues throughout the day, mostly a barrage of questions, from the benignââAre you a baritone or bass when you sing?ââto the more pressing: âWhy is your country fighting in Vietnam?,â a concern that Bell canât fully answer.
Several photos are snapped of John and Yoko in the Washington, DC, audience that day. They will be the last taken of the two of them together for quite some time.
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