Fact #101486
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John Lennon of The Beatles gives an interview to BBC-tv in the UK, explaining why he returned his MBE two months earlier, in protest against British involvement in overseas wars.Full article:
John Lennon : As a protest against violence and war, especially Britain's involvement in Biafra, which most of the British public are not aware of .....'cause all the press, TV and radio's slant all the news from Biafra. All the stuff I learnt on Biafra from journalists off the cuff, folks, is a different story and I began to be ashamed of being British - and I'm a patriotic nationalist if the truth were out, and Yoko can vouch for that. I'm always fighting about what Britain invented - Radar and what, all the different things we've done. But every day I just began to worry a bit more about it and I was gonna send the MBE back anyway. I could have done it privately, but the press would have found out anyway - you would have been here a week later instead..."
(Source : interview transcript)
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(Source : interview transcript)