Firsthand Accounts

Jean Ponder Allen: "I started screaming at the officers..." Mike Arias: "...we had just walked into an ambush..." Jack Cipperly: "...there was a lot of yelling and screaming..." Joe Costello: "We were all scared, very scared..." Keith Hackett: "It was literally a fight for your life." Diane Sikorski Kramer: "...there was a giant hole in his stomach..." Jim Rowen: "...we were trapped..." Paul Soglin: "This was not a time to negotiate." Clark Welch: "I told my guys...'This is it.'" Choose a person interviewed in the film.

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Jane Brotman
student

Jane Brotman enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the fall of 1967, one of 124 first-year students from New Jersey. Coming from a conventional family, she viewed the student activist movement as a distraction. After she witnessed the violent clash between campus protesters and Madison police, Brotman began to question the war in Vietnam. In 1997, Brotman's son joined the Madison police force.