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...could be that Norman Mayer [Dec. 20], who was protesting nuclear weapons, died in a more sane and humane way than the rest of us will...
...ranking police officer commanded that under no circumstances should the van be allowed out of the monument grounds. As FBI Special Agent Kenneth Schiffer Jr. later noted, "He could have headed for the White House." At 2:25 p.m., Mayer allowed the hostages inside the monument to leave. As dusk settled, he seemed prepared to spend the night. Suddenly, just after 7:20, the van lurched away from the monument, sheering off a flagpole next to the obelisk. A volley of shots from police marksmen rang out; the truck swerved and tipped over...
...first person to reach the van was Special Agent W.H. Seals, who found Mayer barely conscious, mumbling, "They shot me in the head." Inside, explosives experts found no TNT but an ample supply of food and water and a portable TV set. Moments later, under the glare of helicopter searchlights, Mayer died, killed by bullet fragments in the head. His short, unhappy ride was over...
Throughout the afternoon, Mayer had insisted, "My personality doesn't mean anything." But it was precisely his disturbed personality that obscured his cause. Born in El Paso on March 31, 1916, Mayer was a drifter. For the past few years he had worked as a maintenance man in Miami Beach hotels. A friend, John Bauer, described him as intelligent, articulate and dedicated. Said Bauer: "He got to the point where he felt he had to do something drastic." In 1976 Mayer was jailed in Hong Kong for attempting to smuggle in marijuana. Although Mayer was deported after serving only...
...Washington. While in Washington, he obtained a prescription for Thorazine, a powerful tranquilizer used for the treatment of psychotic disorders. Day after day during the past few months, displaying a wooden sign warning against the perils of nuclear Armageddon, he picketed the White House. According to Bauer, one of Mayer's favorite quotations was: "We're flawed, bungling human beings incapable of making clear, rational decisions." It is an appropriate epitaph for a flawed, ramshackle life that concluded with a bungled, irrational gesture...