Yoko Ono's symbolic acorn trees remembered 20 years on
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Getty Images Acorns were planted on Coventry Cathedral grounds, as well as being sent to world leaders
Tom Cooke Coventry
It was 20 years ago today that Yoko Ono visited Coventry Cathedral to plant a new pair of oak tree saplings as a symbol of peace. At the event on 14 October 2005, Ono revealed to hundreds of people who had gathered that the city was where her and John Lennon's campaign for peace had began in 1968.
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