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...first half of the 19th century accepted slavery, just as most Americans in the first half of the 1960s supported the Indochina war. In each case, there was a saving remnant which did not accept its part in such crimes. and there were a few people--John Brown and Karleton Armstrong, for example--who felt they had to do all they could to stop them, even if they ran a risk of injuring or even killing people who might be innocent...
Eventually the police caught up with some of the people who bombed the Army Mathematics Research Center, and their leader, a graduate student named Karleton Armstrong, was brought back from Canada to face trial. Some of his comrades--including David Fine, who was 17 when he helped plan the bombing--are still at large, but Armstrong pleaded guilty to second degree murder. In exchange for the guilty plea, the judge agreed not to rule a political defense out of order. Accordingly, defense witnesses spoke about what the United States had done to Vietnam and about the contributions of the Army...
...August morning in 1970, Antiwar Activist Karleton Lewis Armstrong was still making good his escape when he heard the bomb he had helped plant tear out the sides of the University of Wisconsin's Army Mathematics Research Center. Four persons were wounded and a physicist was killed. Caught in Canada early last year and finally extradited, Armstrong, 27, pleaded guilty six weeks ago in Madison, Wis., to second-degree murder and arson-but not before an unusual bit of plea bargaining. Armstrong wanted, as Attorney William Kunstler put it, "a chance to bring to his compatriots what...
...first appointments included more women, campus people and labor people than Madison had been accustomed to, and he went down to Washington to lobby for some new buses. But the main issue confronting Madison--the issue which focused some national attention on Madison this summer--is the trial of Karleton Armstrong who has acknowledged bombing the University of Wisconsin's Army Mathematics Research Center, long a target for antiwar agitation because research done there found wide application in the Indochina war, in 1970. A researcher was killed in the bombing, and Armstrong pleaded guilty of second-degree murder in exchange...
...hundreds of thousands of innocent people, not only go unpunished but continue to hold the highest offices in the country. "At this point," Paul Soglin said during his election campaign, in a statement he has continued to uphold since, "it would be the height of hypocrisy to abandon Karleton Armstrong. Whether Armstrong is innocent or guilty, anyone who conceptually supported ridding this campus of the AMRC, no matter whether they approved or disapproved of the bombing itself, must come to his defense...