...you get the impression that the police always get their man and that justice is always served. But in today's New York Times, there's an obit for a guy named Dwight Armstrong (above) who, along with his brother and two others, was responsible for the 1970 antiwar bombing of......Sterling Hall, a building [on the University of Wisconsin campus] that housed both the university physics department and the Army Mathematics Research Center. The center, which operated under a contract with the United States Army, had been the target of many nonviolent protests since it opened in the 1950s.
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Though the bombers said afterward that they had not intended to hurt anyone, the explosion killed Robert Fassnacht, a physics researcher who was working late. Mr. Fassnacht, 33, a father of three, was, his family said afterward, against the war.
But Armstrong eluded capture for nearly seven years and was freed from prison after only three years. One of his co-conspirators, Leo Burt, was never apprehended.
Armstrong's brother, Karl, was also freed in 1980 and drives a cab in Madison, the town where the crime took place.
In the warmer months, as he has for nearly three decades, he operates a juice cart. The cart is on a pedestrian mall at the edge of the campus, a few blocks from the rebuilt Sterling Hall, where a plaque honors Mr. Fassnacht’s memory.
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