Jon Wiener was born on May 16,1944 and is an American historian and journalist based in Los Angeles, California.
20 Facts About Jon Wiener
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Jon Wiener waged a 25-year legal battle to win the release of the FBI's files on John Lennon.
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Jon Wiener was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of Gladys and Dr Daniel Jon Wiener.
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Jon Wiener graduated from Central High School and then attended Princeton University where he founded a chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society to protest the Vietnam War.
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Jon Wiener received a bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1966, and earned a Ph.
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At the University of California, Irvine, Jon Wiener taught history courses on American politics and the Cold War.
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Jon Wiener led students on visits to the Nixon Library.
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Since 1984, Jon Wiener has been a contributing editor for The Nation magazine, where he has written about diverse topics including campus issues, intellectual controversies, and southern California politics.
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Jon Wiener's writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and the Los Angeles Times.
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In 1981, while conducting research for a book about John Lennon, Jon Wiener learned of the FBI surveillance, and that there were either 281 or 400 pages of files on the ex-Beatle.
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Jon Wiener requested the release of the FBI's files on Lennon by citing the Freedom of Information Act.
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Jon Wiener chronicled much of his frustration with getting documents in his 1984 book Come Together including many "Orwellian moments" during the "tortoise-like progress" of the lawyers.
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Jon Wiener expressed amazement that so much of the information had been withheld:.
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Jon Wiener wrote about his legal battles in his book, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files, published by the University of California Press in 2000.
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Jon Wiener's work provided the basis for the 2006 documentary The US vs John Lennon.
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Jon Wiener served as a historical consultant to the production and appears in the film.
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Jon Wiener appears in the documentary LENNONYC, which aired on the PBS show "American Masters" in 2010.
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Jon Wiener has been criticized by Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic.
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Jon Wiener's Gimme Some Truth received positive reviews in The Washington Post, London Independent, and the Christian Science Monitor.
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One reviewer described Jon Wiener's Gimme Some Truth book as "sobering".