Buzzy the Bomber

Buzzy Fine is 24. years old, with the modestly coiffed, clean-shaven appearance of a Senate page. He wears three-piece suits and lives with his mom in Madison, Wisconsin.

But before he came back to Madison about six months ago, he wore his hair long over his ears, with thick sideburns and a moustache; not even his mom knew where he was, and he wasn’t known as Buzzy, a family nickname, or even as David Sylvan Fine, his real name. What transformed Buzzy was his arrest and arraignment on charges of bombing the University of Wisconsin Army Math Center in August 1970 —an action that killed the father of year-old twins, injured three other people, and caused millions of dollars in damage.

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Peter N. Ehrmann

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Buzzy Fine is 24. years old, with the modestly coiffed, clean-shaven appearance of a Senate page. He wears three-piece suits and lives with his mom in Madison, Wisconsin.

But before he came back to Madison about six months ago, he wore his hair long over his ears, with thick sideburns and a moustache; not even his mom knew where he was, and he wasn’t known as Buzzy, a family nickname, or even as David Sylvan Fine, his real name. What transformed Buzzy was his arrest and arraignment on charges of bombing the University of Wisconsin Army Math Center in August 1970 —an action that killed the father of year-old twins, injured three other people, and caused millions of dollars in damage.