Mailer Starts Term in Jail, Labels Nixon 'Uriah Heep'
Report on Mailer beginning his sentence for the 1967 Pentagon protest, calling President Nixon 'the living embodiment of Uriah Heep' and implicating him in the Kent State deaths.
“Mailer Starts Term in Jail, Labels Nixon ‘Uriah Heep,’” an article by an unidentified writer (Evening Star, Washington, D.C., 5 May 1970), reports on Mailer turning himself in to begin serving three days for his conviction for disorderly conduct at the October 1967 Pentagon antiwar protest (68.8). As he did so, Mailer called President Nixon “the living embodiment of Uriah Heep” and implicated him in the deaths of four students at Kent State University.
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