Madison in the Sixties – August 1968 The Incident at Breese Stevens Field It’s hot and humid on Saturday night August third, cloudy and without much of a breeze. About four […]
Madison, August 1967
Madison in the Sixties – August, 1967 The summer of 67 sizzles with what the Equal Opportunities Commission calls “tension-filled incidents with racial overtones.” Black families living around Odana Road […]
Death in Madison, the last week of July 1962
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of July, 1962. The sad saga of the disgraced former Madison police chief Bruce Weatherly comes to a tragic end on Wednesday […]
Madison, July 1968
Madison in the sixties – July, 1968 The Madison Parks Commission was really only looking out for its animals when it told the Lions Club it had to move its […]
Madison, July 1964
Madison in the sixties – July, 1964 As the month opens, the UW chapter of the Friends of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee is raising bail money and gathering supplies […]
Madison, the first week of July in the late 60s.
Madison – the first week of July in the late 1960s. On the balmy fourth of July 1965, a crowd of about 60,000 packs Vilas Park for the 14th annual […]
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