Produced during the media height of "Armies of the Night" and leading to the writing of "Miami and the Siege of Chicago", "Maidstone" was created during a politically and culturally changing era of American history. Although released in 1970-1971, "Maidstone" was produced just one month after the assassination of Robert Kennedy and three months after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. John D'Amico couples "Maidstone" with chants of "The whole world is watching!" on the American political timeline of the 1960s and along a year of "nerve-wracked" cinema "desperately grasping for a new way of living." Although 1960s cinema is typically disregarded as drug-induced, D'Amico credits the totalitarian-littered world in which these filmmakers were born as fuel in their rage against the politically oppressive utilization of perfect order.