September 28, 2001

The 'Forgotten' 1970 Bombing to Protest American Involvement in Vietnam

To the Editor:

Susan Rosenfeld's essay on the failure of historians to remember the bombing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison during the Vietnam War deals with a real and significant issue, but it is itself badly flawed by a convenient historical amnesia ("The Fatal Bombing That Historians Ignore," The Review, August 17). ... To present this as simply a law-enforcement issue, with law officers having to respond to unprovoked violence by the extreme fringe of the antiwar

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