40 years ago, at the University of Wisconsin.

[Archae]

"Yeah! Let's protest the Vietnam war by blowing up a math building!" :eyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hall_bombing

[saltpoint]

1. A major dust-up and permanent division occurred in

my family tree over this incident, divided as you'd maybe expect between people who thought it was an abominable act of violence versus others who thought no murder was intended and that the principle of stopping the war eclipsed the means by which people might seek to end it.

There were other family trees and whole neighborhoods for that matter who were split deeply prior to this bombing, but in my neck of the woods, this one was the trigger.

[mike_c]

2. the bombing of Army Math is well chronicled in Rads...

...by Tom Bates. It's an excellent book.

on edit-- I didn't realize that Dwight Armstrong recently died.

[petronius]

3. I'd never heard of that before - thanks for the education... (nt)