Dwight Armstrong, one of four men who carried out a fatal bombing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to protest the Vietnam War, has died. He was 58. Armstrong, who spent years as one of the FBIâ??s most wanted fugitives after the 1970 blast, died Sunday at UW Hospital in Madison after battling lung cancer, hospital spokeswoman Susan Lampert Smith said. She said his family wanted the public to know he was a smoker because “they wouldnâ??t want anyone else to have to go through that.” Armstrong was a shaggy-haired high school dropout when he and his older brother, Karl, and two others parked a stolen van packed with 2,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and jet fuel next to Sterling Hall and lit the fuse on Aug. 24, 1970.
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