Video: 'How John Lennon Changed Immigration Policy | msnbc' (primary archival film used in this video was actually shot Friday, Aug. 30, 1974, not "August 1975" as reported)

(Tuesday, October 7, 1975) — Two days before his 35th birthday and the birth of his first child with wife Yoko Ono, former Beatle John Lennon won his battle against U.S. immigration authorities when a federal appeals court overturned an order to deport him.

Officials had wanted to kick Lennon out of the country because of a drug arrest in Britain.