The full stunning episode of PBS’s ‘The Day the ’60s Died,’ featuring the tragedy at Kent State on May 4, 1970, is available in its entirety below. You should watch it in general, but today, the 47th anniversary, wouldn’t be a bad day.
This article appears in Apr 29 – May 5, 2015.
Seemingly a buried footnote in the history of campus tumult is the August 1970 Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus…which killed a physics researcher and injured a security officer, grad student and postdoctoral physics researcher.
Been to Madison many times over the years.. Last visit was about five years ago, after all the Scott Walker hoo-ha. There is a memorial to Robert Fassnacht (the victim) in the lobby of Sterling Hall. He was working in a lab, at three in the morning, when he died.
I was there right after the bombing of 1970. The whole front of the building was gone. Debris was found on the roofs of buildings eight blocks away.
My wife was at Kent that weekend. Not an eyewitness to the shootings, but she did see some of the events of the preceding days. Still won’t talk about it.
Chuckles the Clown