Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Distorted Vision of Mailer

A second report in the anti-communist weekly Tocsin on Mailer's 21 May Berkeley speech, including his call to publish upside-down photographs of President Johnson in protest against the Vietnam War.

An article by an unidentified writer — a second report (see 65.12; note the change in the publication’s name) on Mailer’s 21 May speech at the University of California, Berkeley, including Mailer’s call to publish upside-down photographs of President Johnson in protest against the Vietnam War. Lennon records the date as “25 or 26 August.”

First published: 1965-08
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 65.18
Cite as: /works/1965-08-distorted-vision-of-mailer
Last updated: 2026-05-30