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Police Tactics at the Dow Demonstration | Two Days in October

In October of 1967, students at the University of Wisconsin Madison staged a massive protest against Dow Chemical Company recruiting on their campus. Dow made Napalm, the chemical gas that had become a symbol of the war in Vietnam. When students sat in at the Commerce Building, the university asked the police for help.

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