In the early hours of August 24, 1970, anti-war terrorists exploded a truck bomb next to
Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, killing a  
physics researcher who was staying late to finish an experiment. 
I was awakened from my sleep in my rented room near Monroe Street, about a mile from campus,
by the sound of the blast and its echo, but soon fell asleep and did not learn 
of the explosion until I tried to go to work the next morning.
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Their target was the 
Army Math Research Center, which was in Sterling Hall, but the Department of 
Physics occupied the bottom of the building and the Department of Astronomy  
was on the fifth and sixth floors. The flames in this photo are coming from the office 
of Michael Molnar, one of the astronomy graduate students. He lost his thesis in the 
blast. My office was on the opposite side of the building. My work did not suffer 
any major losses, but it was a long time before we were able to get into the 
building again. 
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        Sterling Hall still in flames
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        Damage seen in daylight 
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These images were copied from a Wisconsin State Journal site in 2020. 
They have lower resolution than 300 dpi. 
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