Cultural References
Loudon Wainwright III includes a few lines about Mark Essex's shooting spree in his song "Clockwork Chartreuse" on the album "Attempted Mustache" released in 1973. "I know a roof top, don't you say nope. Let's try out that rifle, one with the scope. Howard Johnson's!''
Essex is mentioned at length in Gil Scott Heron's version of Inner City Blues
Japanese doom metal band Church of Misery recorded a song about Mark Essex called "Soul Discharge" on their album The Second Coming.
A news report of the shootings was seen in the movie The Assassination of Richard Nixon.
Adrienne Kennedy wrote a play based on Essex titled "An Evening with Dead Essex." It opened in 1973 at the American Place Theatre in New York City.
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