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Dave Bist is a Canadian journalist who covered the John Lennon, Yoko Ono Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in 1969 for the Montreal Gazette .
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He earned a Juno Award in 1971 as "Canadian Journalist of the Year". [1]
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Dave Bist is a Canadian journalist who covered the John Lennon, Yoko Ono Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in 1969 for the Montreal Gazette .
He earned a Juno Award in 1971 as "Canadian Journalist of the Year". [1]
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