Madison in the sixties. The third week of May, 1966. The deferment sit-in, part 2 Thursday, May 18, the weeklong sit-in at the UW administration building, which at its peak […]
The Anti-Deferment Sit-In of May 1966
Madison in the Sixties. May 16, 1966 – the anti-deferment sit-in. As the war in Viet Nam kept getting worse, the monthly draft call kept getting higher. When it hit […]
Madison, 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 July 25 when his wife, Inez, shoots him in the stomach […]
Madison in the Sixties – The Anti-Draft Sit-in of May, 1966
As the war in Viet Nam escalated, so too did the monthly draft. When it hit 40,000 in December, 1965, Selective Service director General Lewis B. Hershey warned that “marginal” […]
