Video: John Dean (Part 3) Watergate Hearings Testimony" (June 27, 1973, afternoon session begins at 2:22:00)

(Wednesday, June 27, 1973; during the Watergate Scandal) — Ex-Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, appeared at the afternoon session of the Senate Watergate hearings today, causing “more excitement in the audience than the witness.”

They sat in the spectator section of the old Senate Caucus Room, and when they weren’t signing autographs, they strained to get a glimpse of the witness, former White House John W. Dean, and his wife, Maureen.

In Dean’s third consecutive day of testimony, he told the Senate Watergate committee that the White House lists of political enemies filled a file “several inches thick.”

“We’re somewhere in the middle,” said a diplomatic Lennon. “Nobody has asked us to take sides with Mr. Dean or Mr. Nixon.”

Lennon said he didn’t think President Richard Nixon will have to resign because “he is a lawyer.” But he conceded, “I don’t know the intricacies of. the procedures.”

“I think It’s a good sign that America is interested in having the truth come out, whatever that is,” Ono said to reporters.

Lennon wore a brown jacket, brown checked shirt, cream-colored pants, and brown tinted sunglasses to the hearings. Ono was dressed in blue jeans and a navy jacket.

Lennon’s hair was unusually short. He said he has his brown curls chopped off every two years and had a haircut again only two weeks ago.

“Since we saw the Watergate hearings on TV, we thought we’d take them in,” commented Lennon. “But I don’t know what to make of Dean.”

Lennon has been ordered by the U.S. Immigration Service to leave the country because of a previous conviction for possession of hashish. He Is allowed to remain, however, while, the order is under ‘appeal.

It would later be revealed that the government’s campaign to deport Lennon had been triggered by the Nixon administration’s fear of Lennon’s political (anti-Vietnam War) views and influence.