Author Norman Mailer is Colorful in Court
A New Bedford Standard-Times account of Mailer's 23 June trial for disorderly conduct in Provincetown, at which he was acquitted — and testified that the two officers who arrested him "have seen too much television."
“Author Norman Mailer is Colorful in Court.” Article by Van G. Sauter. Standard-Times (New Bedford, Mass.), 24 June 1960.
The report covers Mailer’s 23 June trial for disorderly conduct in Provincetown, at which he was acquitted. He testified that the two arresting officers “have seen too much television. They thought I was a dangerous beatnik.”