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A Look Back at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Infamous Love Story

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    John Lennon and Yoko Ono, December 1968.

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    John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold Ono’s daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, 1968.

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    John Lennon and Yoko Ono with an armful of balloons at the opening of their “You Are Here” exhibition at the Robert Fraser Gallery in London, 1968.

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    Yoko Ono and John Lennon hold his son Julian on the set of The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, 1968.

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    John Lennon and Yoko Ono stage a seven-day “Bed-In for Peace,” in the Presidential Suite of the Hilton hotel in Amsterdam, “as a protest against war and violence in the world,” March 1969.

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    Yoko Ono and John Lennon during their “Bed-In for Peace” in the Presidential Suite of the Hilton hotel in Amsterdam, March 1969.

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    Yoko Ono and John Lennon show off their marriage certificate after their wedding in Gibraltar. They are about to board a chartered jet to Paris for their honeymoon, March 1969.

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    Yoko Ono and John Lennon with their hair shorn to be auctioned off in London. The proceeds will go to Britain’s Black Power organization, February 1970.

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    John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on the The Dick Cavett Show, September 1971.

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    John Lennon and Yoko Ono dining in Germany, 1972.