Papers, 1959-1983.

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Papers, 1959-1983.

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Papers of a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student, anti-Vietnam War activist, and editor of "Take Over," an underground newspaper published in Madison from 1971 to 1979. Included are Take Over's administrative, financial, legal, and subject files, correspondence, photographs, print and near-print ephemera, posters, bumper stickers, and clippings; as well as copies of FBI files mainly concerning individuals, organizations, and events in Madison, 1959-1977; and similar materials from the Madison Police Department Affinity Files, 1968-1977. Also included are tape recordings of speeches and interviews by Fellner, about 1973-1979, with Emile de Antonio, Harvey Goldberg, William Kunstler, Paul Soglin, members of the Weather Underground Organization, former FBI agents, and others. Among individuals, organizations, issues, and events mentioned in the papers are Robert Kastenmeier, Oliver Steinberg, Students for a Democratic Society, Youth International Party (Yippies), the defense of U.S. political prisoners, the 1970 bombing of the University of Wisconsin's U.S. Army Mathematics Research Center by a group including Karleton Armstrong, and FBI surveillance and counterintelligence activities in Madison during the 1960's and 1970's. The photographic portion of this collection documents local individuals, events, and well-known visitors, as well as Take-Over sponsored activities, special stories, and newspaper staff. Also documented are people and events from Fellner's personal life including visits to Cuba and Mifflin Street Block Parties. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1959-1980, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1960-1983, which include taped interviews conducted by Fellner while researching a proposed book on Madison attorney Edward Ben Elson as well as additional FBI files obtained by Fellner under the Freedom of Information Act.

9.4 c.f. (24 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder), and.29 tape recordings; plus.additions of 0.6 c.f.69 tape recordings.2134 photographs (7 archives boxes and 1 flat box)4786 negatives (3 shoe boxes), and.262 transparencies (1 binder)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6925211

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

Youth International Party

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Armstrong, Karleton Lewis

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Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995

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Kastenmeier, Robert.

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Elson, Edward Ben.

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De Antonio, Emile

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Madison (Wis.). Police Dept.

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Mathematics Research Center (United States. Army)

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Steinberg, Oliver 1971-

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Goldberg, Harvey, 1923-1987

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Weather Underground Organization

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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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The FBI established this classification when it assumed responsibility for ascertaining the protection capabilities and weaknesses of defense plants. Each plant survey was a separate case file, with the survey, supplemental surveys, and all communications dealing with a plant insofar as plant protection was concerned, filed together. On June 1, 1941, and January 5, 1942, the Navy and Army, respectively, assumed responsibility for surveying defense plants in which they had interests. Thereafter, ...

Fellner, Michael J.

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Soglin, Paul.

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