Dwight Alan Armstrong ( August 29 , 1951 &ndash; June 20 , 2010 ) was an American anti-Vietnam War activist who helped use a truck bomb to shatter Sterling Hall , a centrally located building on the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus , on August 24 , 1970 . Armstrong and three others targeted an army mathematical research center on an upper floor . They considered the University complicit in military research that enabled aggression . The bomb gutted the building , killing one person and injuring three . Armstrong spent several years on the run before being imprisoned
Sterling Hall
Sterling Hall bombing
Dwight Armstrong