Seven Posters or Broadsides, Advocating Freedom for Karl Armstrong

Author: (ARMSTRONG, Karl)
Title: Seven Posters or Broadsides, Advocating Freedom for Karl Armstrong

Description: Hardcover. On August 24, 1970, Sterling Hall, a science building which housed the Army Mathematics Research Center (AMRC) at the University of Wisconsin Madison was bombed with a bomb planted in a Ford Van, causing massive destruction and resulting in the death of one researcher and the injury of three others, none of whom were affiliated with the AMRC. It also damaged 26 other nearby buildings. The AMRC was barely damaged. Karl Armstrong was the eldest and most radicalized of the four bombers, and had previously attempted to bomb several other Army related targets. He was caught in 1972, convicted and sentenced to 23 years; he served seven of them and then returned to Madison where he operated a juice cart on campus, and later opened a deli. His apprehension proved a cause célèbre on campus, and these posters reflect that movement. A full list below.

1. *Karl Armstrong Freedom Party*. [Madison: no pub., 1973]. Measuring 10.25" x 16.5". Horizontal crease, ink name and stamp of the person who collected the poster on verso, about fine. Central image is a four-color line drawing of Armstrong's head with a star in the middle.

2. *Don't Rail Road Karl Armstrong*. Madison: Karl Armstrong Defense Committee, 1973. Measuring 16" x 10.5". Horizontal crease, tear in lower right corner, upper left corner chipped, name stamp of the person who collected the poster on verso, near very good. Printed in red and black, central image of Armstrong's head.

3. *"Mathematics for Death" Prevent Future Vietnams. Rally*. [Madison: no pub., 1973]. Measuring 11" x 17". Horizontal crease, small chip in upper right corner, ink name and stamp of the person who collected the poster on verso, else near fine. Printed in black on red stock, central image of an attacking eagle made up of mathematical formulae.

4. *Karl Armstrong Defense Fund Raising Week. Special Fund Raising Concert by Parthenogenis*. [Madison: no pub., 1973]. Measuring 11" x 17". Horizontal crease, ink name and stamp of the person who collected the poster on verso, else about fine. Printed in black on red stock, central image of Karl Armstrong sitting at a table looking disconsolate.

5. *Karl Armstrong On Trial. Accused of Bombing... Illegally Extradited from Canada... Spread the Word!*. [Madison: no pub., 1973]. Measuring 11" x 17". Horizontal crease, ink name and stamp of the person who collected the poster on verso, else about fine. Printed in black on buff stock, central photographic image of a grinning Karl Armstrong.

6. *Vigil at Courthouse Steps. Army Math vs. Karl Armstrong*. [Madison: no pub., 1975]. Measuring 10.5" x 16.5". Horizontal crease, ink name and stamp of the person who collected the poster on verso, else near fine. Printed in black on red stock, central line drawing image of people milling around on the steps of a government building.

7. *Free Karl*. Madison: Karl Armstrong Defense Comm. 1972. Measuring 8.5" x 15.5". Horizontal crease, ink name of the person who collected the poster on verso, else near fine. Silk screened in several colors on white stock, central image of a flame.

Overall an interesting accumulation of material sympathetic to the Sterling Hall bomber.

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