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, the second week of January, 1968
Madison in the Sixties – the second week of January, 1968 On the morning of the eighth, the Wisconsin State Journal publishes an editorial about the thirty or so families […]
Madison – Racial Tensions, Late November, 1968
Madison in the Sixties – 1968. Racial tensions, late November. On Saturday the 16th, university police arrest a Black nonstudent, Terrence Calneck, in the Rathskeller after he gets into a […]
Madison, October 1968
Madison in the Sixties – October, 1968 Sometime around 1 a.m. on October first, someone cuts the window pane of the state headquarters of the Selective Service System at 1220 […]