Bates, Tom
by Rads: The 1970 Bombing of the Army Research Center at the University of Wisconsin and Its Aftermath
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New York. 1992. November 1992. Harper Collins. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket.Remainder Mark. 0060167548. 465 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Mario Pulice. keywords: History America Politics Radical. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An account of the 1970 bombing of the Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin sheds light on the event while also chronicling the anti-war movement. Bates was on the Wisconsin campus as a graduate student at the time of the bombing, and two years later would be fired from his first teaching position for protesting the Vietnam War. The book details events and politics of the 1960s leading up to the bombing, which killed a young postdoctoral researcher and caused $6 million in damage to 26 campus buildings. Three men, Karl and Dwight Armstrong and David Fine, were captured and served prison sentences. The fourth, Leo Burt, has not been seen in 29 years. A Times book reviewer, Elinor Langer, concluded that Bates' book was a braided narrative that is part biography and part true crime. The Sterling Hall Bombing that occurred on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus on August 24, 1970 was committed by four young people as a protest against the University's research connections with the US military during the Vietnam War. It resulted in the death of a university physics researcher and injuries to three others. The bombers were Karleton Armstrong, Dwight Armstrong, David Fine, and Leo Burt. They called themselves the New Year's Gang, a name which was derived from a previous exploit from New Year's Eve 1969. Before the Sterling Hall bombing, Karl committed several other acts of terrorism, including arson attacks on ROTC installation at the Red Gym and one meant for the state Selective Service headquarters which instead hit the UW Primate Research Center. Karl also attempted to plant explosives at the Prairie du Sac electric substation which supplied power to the ammunition plant, but was frightened off by the night watchman. inventory #25294 ISBN: 0060167548.
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- Title
- Bates, Tom
- Author
- Rads: The 1970 Bombing of the Army Research Center at the University of Wisconsin and Its Aftermath
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060167548
- ISBN 13
- 9780060167547
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- September 1992
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