Sterling Hall bombing | |
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Part of the opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam | |
![]() Sterling Hall | |
Location | Madison, Wisconsin, United States |
Coordinates | 43°04′27″N 89°24′19″W / 43.074278°N 89.405408°W |
Date | August 24, 1970 3:42 am (UTC-5) |
Target | Army Mathematics Research Center, Sterling Hall, UW–Madison |
Attack type | Car bombing of a school building |
Weapons | Car bomb (ammonium nitrate) |
Deaths | 1 |
Injured | 3 |
Perpetrators | Karleton Armstrong, Dwight Armstrong, David Fine and Leo Burt |
Motive | Protest against the Vietnam War |
The Sterling Hall bombing occurred on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on August 24, 1970, and was committed by four men as an action against the university's research connections with the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. It resulted in the death of a university physics researcher and injuries to three others.