Madison in the Sixties: The Mifflin Street Block Party Riots, part 1 On April 29, 1969, an anonymous group calling itself the International Were Wolf Conspiracy posts flyers downtown advertising […]
Madison, fourth week of September, 1969
Mayor Dyke’s special three-man panel investigating the Mifflin Street Block Party riots earlier this year issues its report, blaming both sides and pleasing neither. The “greatest factor in causing […]
Madison, third week of August, 1969
Madison, the third week of August, 1969 Madison’s mass transit system teeters on the verge of chaos as the shareholders of the Madison Bus Co. vote to dissolve the company […]
Madison, the third week of July, 1969
The already-dim prospects for a civic auditorium and convention center at Law Park fade even further as Mayor Bill Dyke says the city doesn’t have the hotel rooms to support […]
Madison, Third Week of June 1969
Mayor Bill Dyke’s special commission investigating the Mifflin Block Party Riots of early May gets underway, and hears from a witness who directly challenges the mayor’s account of a key […]