Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with RetroPod, a show about the past, rediscovered.

On March 20th, 1969, roughly five decades before the selfie generation began live streaming

themselves playing video games or making scrambled eggs, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married.

Five days later, they invited the media to the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel, to their honeymoon suite.

Needless to say, many reporters turned this down.

Lennon, of course, was one of the most famous men on the planet, the co-founder of a little band called The Beatles.

Oh, no, she was an eccentric Japanese artist.

Both were intensely and serially for peace, conjuring up a series of bizarre protest acts, including mailing acorns

to world leaders.

They would have had huge Instagram followings today.

Hashtag John and Yoko's bed.

The Washington Post, quoting an unnamed source, reported the honeymoon suite event would be the

century's most uncensored lovin. So, camera crews and reporters, including some from the post,

headed right on over. We cannot understate the expectations the journalists had. They literally thought they were about

to see and document a conjugal act between the most famous couple in the world. Well, that

didn't happen, but the spectacle that unfolded was epic, nonetheless.

When reporters arrived, Lennon and Ona were sitting up in bed, in cozy pajamas. His shirt

buttoned up to the top, and his long straight hair, like his brides, parted down the middle.

They both held tulips.

The bed was pushed up against big floor-to-ceiling windows.

Handmade signs that read hair piece and bed piece hung over their heads.

Buckeys of flowers filled the room.

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