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 […]
Madison War Dead, 1968-1969
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 […]
