with disorderly conduct. The driver of the station wagon was also charged with obstructing traffic. Rubin later said that a policeman came to the jail cell and said "You guys are all going to jail for the rest of your lives—the pig squealed on you!" However, the Yippies were released after each posted a $25 bond. Trial Pigasus and the Yippies were charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, and bringing a pig to Chicago. At the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, defense counsel William Kunstler accused the Democratic Party of doing exactly the same thing. The trial of the Yippies was covered by CBS, NBC, ABC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Chicago Sun Times, the AP and UPI wire services, and many other major U.S. news outlets. In addition to singer/songwriter and Youth International Party activist Phil Ochs, numerous members of the Youth International Party testified to the seriousness with which Pigasus had been vetted and briefed, in preparation for his campaign. Phil Ochs' testimony: After the 1968 Democratic convention Sources vary on the fate of Pigasus. There is some speculation that a police officer ate him. The Chicago Tribune, on September 30, 1968, said that after Pigasus was taken into custody by Chicago police, they transported him to the Anti-Cruelty Society, along with a sow called "Mrs. Pigasus", and a piglet, all collected after being paraded by the Yippies as part of their demonstrations around the time of the convention. The swine were later transferred to a farm in Grayslake, Illinois. Five months after the nomination of Pigasus, during the inauguration ceremony of President Nixon, the Yippies held their own "in-HOG-uration" ceremony – for President Pigasus. Eight years after the Pigasus stunt, the Yippies would nominate another candidate for President: Nobody. Many years later, The New York Times obituaries for Dennis Dalrymple, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin all highlighted the nomination of Pigasus for President during the Democratic Convention of 1968 as an extraordinary moment in political theater. See also List of pigs List of individual pigs List of practical joke topics Chicago Seven Pigasus (literature) Tactical frivolity References Additional sources Further reading External links Candidates in the 1968 United States presidential election 20th-century American politicians Individual pigs Practical jokes Animals in politics Yippies Individual animals in the United States