Between the Covers

Unbound. Political poster. Measuring 17" x 22". Former owner signature on unprinted verso. Horizontal fold and very light vertical crease (an old fold) else fine. Prints an unattributed political poem (beginning "They call it terror / if you are few / and have no B-52's...") and a portrait of Fine dated April 1970. Four months after the picture was taken, an 18-year-old David Fine, an antiwar protester and student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, detonated a large truck bomb outside of the building that held the university's Army Mathematics Research Center (and physics department) killing a post-doctoral researcher who was working late, and injuring three others. (The bombers claimed to have looked through the windows and, seeing no activity, assumed the hall was empty.) Fine was on the run for nearly six years. Upon his capture, a former roommate chaired a fundraising committee for him in Fine's hometown of Wilmington, and this "Freedom Committee" was founded in Madison.

Item #610465