Leon Wildes Dead: John Lennon's Deportation Lawyer Dies at 90 – Billboard
Leon Wildes, an immigration lawyer best known for fight in the 1970s to prevent John Lennon from being deported, has died at age 90.
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Leon Wildes, an immigration lawyer best known for fight in the 1970s to prevent John Lennon from being deported, has died at age 90.
Battling the government for more than three years, he was able to prove that the Nixon White House was trying to deport the former Beatle for political reasons.
An academic drawn into politics at the apex of Trudeaumania, he steered the party to unprecedented popularity in the late 1980s but it wasn’t enough to see him become the first New Democrat prime minister
Leon Wildes, a prominent immigration lawyer best known for his landmark, yearslong fight in the 1970s to prevent John Lennon from being deported and enable the former Beatle to receive permanent residency in the U.S., has died at age 90.
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