Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 292

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(STUDENT RADICALISM.) Set of 4 "Wanted by the FBI" posters for perpetrators of the Sterling Hall bombing. Each 16 x 10 1/2 inches, featuring photographs of the suspects and facsimile signatures of J. Edgar Hoover, folded at center; addressed to a New Hampshire post office on verso. Washington, 1970

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Posters of each of the four young men charged with the August 1970 bombing a University of Wisconsin building to protest military research, which resulted in the death of a researcher and several injuries. Three of the bombers were eventually arrested, while Leo "The Ghost of Wisconsin" Burt is still at large.