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Im used to calling him stu. theres a tab. so many people are saying, what can we do? it would not have been on the senate floor if americans had not spoken up. >> tucker, you asked what did he do? probably a week or two ago, maybe it was a week ago, they put him under a gag order. they took away his right to post, to talk on social media, to e-mail, to text. he shared it with america. and he knew this weekend when he posted again. >> an broke silence. >> he broke his silence, that they were prob...

Stuart scheller, lieutenant colonel stuart scheller and im used to calling him stu of course. there is a tab there and what can we do? we cant get the message out. it would not be on the senate floor at americans not spoken. >> talker, you asked, what do you do? probably a week or two ago or maybe a week ago, they put him under a gag order and took away his right to post, to talk on social media. to email, to text. he shared it with america. and he knew this weekend when he posted again and brok...

Madison, the last week of July, 1962 Close Close The sad saga of the disgraced former Madison police chief Bruce Weatherly comes to a tragic end on Wednesday July 25 when his wife, Inez, shoots him in the stomach with his own .38 caliber revolver at their home in his native San Antonio, Texas. “I just shot your daddy,” Mrs. Weatherly tells her daughter as she comes downstairs to call police before driving across town to her mother’s house, where she was arrested. Weatherly, 49, dies abo...

Madison, July 1964 Close Close 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 for the so-called Freedom Summer voter registration drive in the Deep South. Several UW students have already been arrested, including former student Andrew Goodman, who has been missing since his arrest with two other activists in late June. On the 16 th, the UW and three histori...

Madison in the Sixties – the first week of June, 1961 Two months after businessman Henry Reynolds was elected mayor on a platform of killing the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Monona Terrace civic center, the Auditorium Committee dominated by his appointees votes to do just that. With pro-Monona Terrace members appointed by former mayor Ivan Nestingen now in the minority, Reynolds and his appointees vote 6-3 to terminate the contract with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and start from scratch....

Madison – May, 1967. The Bus Lane Protest By the spring of 1967. many campuses were having demonstrations against the war, the draft, and the CIA. But only Madison had a disruptive protest over a bus lane. In 1960 the city announced a ten-year plan to improve University Avenue from Bassett Street to Old Middleton Road, the first phase focused on the campus area — four lanes heading west and one lane heading east, reserved for buses. Nobody objected. But when the new road finally opens in No...

As the war in Viet Nam escalated, so too did the monthly draft. When it hit 40,000 in December, 1965, Selective Service director General Lewis B. Hershey warned that “marginal” students — about 10 percent of university freshmen and sophomores — could soon lose their 2-S student deferment and be drafted. To define “marginal,” he brought  back the policy from the Korean War, using class rank and a standardized test.  The American Council of Educators, and UW Dean of Students Joseph ...

Sunday, May 4, 1969 –  Late afternoon Tear gas lingers in the soft spring air, rocks and bricks are strewn through the streets, all residue of last night’s riot. Mifflanders still want a block party; Mayor Bill Dyke still says no and refuses to issue a permit. Hundreds of kids are hanging out around Mifflin and Bassett streets, hundreds of cops are on their way. As the crowd builds, Ald. Paul Soglin is arrested a second time, for “unlawful assembly” – while standing by himself near h...

Madison in the Sixties: The Mifflin Street Block Party Riots, part 1 On April 29, 1969, an anonymous group calling itself the International Were Wolf Conspiracy posts flyers downtown advertising a party that Saturday in the 500 block of West Mifflin St. The illustration is of a man with a bandolero, with a call for “armed love” and to “off the pig.” The Mifflanders don’t care that they don’t have a permit; lots of neighborhoods throw block parties without official sanction. Cops had...

Madison in the Sixties – the film the UW suppressed. In the summer of 1960, local NAACP president Lloyd Barbee wanted to expose housing discrimination in the Madison rental market. So he proposed to the University of Wisconsin-Extension Bureau of Audio- Visual Instruction that instructor Stuart Hanisch produce a film to be called “To Find a Home.” Barbee and Hanisch explained to BAVI director Professor Fredrick A. White and Extension dean L. H. Adolfson that a group of Black and white act...