Norman Mailer

Released
Date of birth:31. 01. 1923
Date of death:10. 11. 2007
Age:84† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
1 Day
Support
Anti-War
Norman Mailer

Biography

Norman Mailer was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist arrested at the October 21, 1967 March on the Pentagon for crossing an MP line and refusing orders to disperse. He pled nolo contendere, was sentenced to 30 days (most suspended; served 5), and wrote his National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning "Armies of the Night" (1968) as a first-person account of the march, his arrest, and the night he spent in custody at the Occoquan Workhouse with other antiwar protesters.

Custody record

Contemporary May 1970 reporting describes Mailer serving a three-day Alexandria jail term for the 1967 Pentagon protest, separate from the initial October 1967 detention. Exact May admission and discharge days have not been inferred from newspaper publication dates.

Sources: Source 1; Source 2; Source 3; Source 4; Source 5.

Case

Occoquan Workhouse
Charges: Crossing a military police line at the Pentagon, refusing to disperse.
Arrested: Oct 21, 1967
Sentenced: Oct 22, 1967
Incarcerated: Oct 21, 1967
Released: Oct 22, 1967
Sentence: Thirty days, 25 suspended, and a $50 fine
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Virginia

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