Madison – May, 1967. The Bus Lane Protest By the spring of 1967. many campuses were having demonstrations against the war, the draft, and the CIA. But only Madison had a disruptive protest over a bus lane. In 1960 the city announced a ten-year plan to improve University Avenue from Bassett Street to Old Middleton […]
Madison in the Sixties – the Death of Otis Redding
Madison in the Sixties – December 10 1967 Otis Redding was one of the breakout stars at the Monterey Pop Festival in June, blowing minds with powerful performances of songs like Shout!, Try A Little Tenderness, and the song he wrote which Aretha Franklin made a huge hit, Respect. In October, he dethroned Elvis Presley […]
Madison, November 1967
1967 November 13[EAW1] [SL2] —A University Forum discussion of the CIA among Chancellor William Sewell; professors Anatole Beck, Frank Remington, and Kenneth Dolbeare; a representative of the pro-CIA interview Committee to Defend Individual Rights; and former WSA Senator Paul Soglin ends when Soglin declares the discussion a “dialogue of the absurd” and leads a walkout of about […]
