YOKO ONO LENNON PRESS CONFERENCE

Yoko Ono Lennon attends a press conference for the new film "The U.S. vs. John Lennon" at the Regency Hotel in New York on September 6, 2006. (UPI Photo/Laura Cavanaugh)

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