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Wanted by the FBI. Sabotage; Destruction of Government Property; Conspiracy: Leo Frederick Burt

Washington DC: Federal Burerau of Investigation, [1970]. Folio broadsheet, 16" x 10-1/2". Offset lithograph, printed in black on uncoated white stock. Old folds; faint stains, soil; complete and about Very Good.

Original FBI "Wanted" flyer for Leo Burt, the so-called "Ghost of Wisconsin," who was indicted in absentia for the 1970 bombing of a University of Wisconsin laboratory building, resulting in the death of one graduate researcher and injury to several others. Claiming to be retaliating for the Kent State massacre, Burt and three con-conspirators allegedly used a fertilizer bomb to destroy Sterling Hall on the UW campus in August, 1970, apparently not realizing that the building was occupied at the time. Burt and an accomplice, David Fine, fled to Canada to avoid arrest; Fine was finally apprehended in 1976, but Burt has managed to evade capture ever since, his whereabouts unknown. His story has been featured in a number of television specials, including a 2007 episode of "America's Most Wanted," making him something of a legendary figure in the annals of American underground radical protest.

Price: $150.00

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