Yoko Ono awards peace grants to Seymour Hersh, Mordechai Vanunu

Catholic New Times, Oct 10, 2004

NEW YORK -- Yoko Ono has awarded two peace grants to journalist Seymour Hersh and Israeli nuclear "whistleblower" Mordechai Vanunu, men she said epitomize her late husband John Lennon's song "Gimme Some Truth."

Hersh and Vanunu will each receive a $50,000 Lennon-Ono Grant for Peace, according to a statement released by Ono's publicist, Elliot Mintz.

Ono said the 2004 honorees were "people who have spoken out for the benefit of the human race by overcoming extreme personal difficulties and, in doing so, have allowed the truth to prevail."

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