Knowing that their wedding would cause a huge stir in the press, John Lennon and Yoko Ono decided to use their honeymoon to help champion world peace.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In

Forty years ago, the couple staged an act of nonviolent protest in support of peace

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