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John Sinclair, 82, Dies; Counterculture Activist Who Led a ‘Guitar Army’

His imprisonment for a minor marijuana offense became a cause célèbre. He was released after John Lennon and Yoko Ono sang about him at a protest rally.

Michael S. Rosenwald
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Deaths (Obituaries), False Arrests, Convictions and Imprisonments, Lennon, John, Marijuana, MC5, Michigan, Ono, Yoko, Pop and Rock Music, Prisons and Prisoners, Sinclair, John A
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