"Yoko Ono on Twitter"

"Yoko Ono on Twitter"

A Tweet made by Yoko Ono Lennon (@yokoono)

This Tweet, posted on December 8, 2015, is an example of using a historical event to engage in a modern political discussion with contemporary tools. The Tweet was posted on the anniversary of John Lennon's murder, and Ono Lennon utilizes that event as a representation of a larger narrative of gun violence in which society is engaging today. The photo depicts Lennon's eyeglasses, covered in his blood from the night he was killed, looking out over Central Park. The image says, "Over 1,100,000 people have been killed by guns in the U.S.A. since John Lennon was shot and killed on December 8, 1980." The original Tweet was re-Tweeted over 9,900 times.

Ono Lennon, Yoko

Twitter user @yokoono

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Dember 8, 2015

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