Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a feeling the average North American Catholic doesn't give a hoot what the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod thinks of the Pope. He is not their church leader. Let them look to Martin Luther as the Antichrist...
Politicians are divided over whether Kennedy is hurting himself by edging toward the center on too many issues. Many agree with liberal Democrat Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin that "it is inevitable in a campaign for you to moderate your views." Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont disagrees. Says he: "People where I come from want their leaders to take a position. Those who try to shift with the wind tend to lose...
...film concentrates on Madison; the Wisconsin capital serves as a metaphor for America. By focusing in on one town, Silber and Brown bring to the film a unity of place and time without sacrificing national significance. The selection of Madison was a wise one since, as Barry A. Brown put it, "Everything happened in Madison, from the smallest protest to the biggest bombing." The War at Home chronicles the history of the anti-war movement and captures some of its passion and humanity...
Throughout the film, it is the people who fascinate us. Brown and Silber interview over twenty individuals in the film--everyone from the chief of police at the University of Wisconsin to an aged but valiant Senator Ernest Gruening. A housewife tells of her early, intangible doubts concerning the war. Balding, thirty year old ex-campus radicals relive their moment in the sun, looking back with a curious mixture of embarassed nostalgia and pride at having been a part of the movement which fundamentally changed American foreign policy and values...
...most riveting interview was filmed from within a Wisconsin State Correctional Institution. The life of Karl Armstrong runs like a dark thread through The War at Home. Now serving a 23 year prison term, Armstrong was convicted of murder in connection with the bombing of the Army Math Research Center in 1970. He has been called "the bitter fruit of a bitter season." But his story means far more; Karl Armstrong symbolizes the progression of the anti-war movement from leaflets to sit-ins to dynamite. Clubbed at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, he vowed never...