Madison in the Sixties – Our Vietnam Casualties, part 2 Nine Madison men died there in 1968. Army Private First Class Edgar Gerlach, twenty, a tank driver, is killed January […]
Madison’s Vietnam Casualties, 1965-1967
Madison in the sixties. Our Memorial Day tribute to our Vietnam casualties – part one. 1965 Marine staff sergeant Roscoe Ammerman, thirty- seven, becomes the first casualty from Madison when […]
Kim Oclon, “The War On All Fronts”
Stu Levitan welcomes Kim Oclon for a conversation about her new LGBTQ coming of age novel, The War on All Fronts. What would life be like for two closeted young […]
Madison, April 1967
Madison in the Sixties – April, 1967 Mayor Otto Festge won his first term in 1965 by eight thousand votes. But crime and taxes are both up, college students are […]
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 […]
The Untold Story of Dissenting Prisoners of War
During the 1970s, Americans were riveted by stories of prisoners of war coming home from Vietnam. One part of the story that often went untold, though, was that there were […]