Washington
Post: On 24 August 1970, four antiwar activists planted a
bomb next to Sterling Hall on the Madison campus of the
University of Wisconsin. The explosion, which took place at
3:40am, killed physics postdoc Robert Fassnacht, severely
damaged the physics department, but barely affected the
bombers' target, the Army Mathematics Research Center. By 1977
three of the suspected bombers had been arrested. The fourth,
Leo Burt, remains on the run. As the
Washington Post's Jerry Markon reports, the FBI has
stepped up its hunt for Burt, 40 years after the bombing took
place.
