Doug Moe: Burt’s life on the run makes for good fiction

The great unfinished story of the last half century in Madison is whatever happened to Leo Burt. Burt, of course, is the last fugitive from the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing on the UW-Madison campus ? the last fugitive, really, from that whole era. In 2006 I chatted about Burt with Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground co-founder who spent 11 years on the run himself. Ayers was stunned to learn Burt was still at large. “That?s amazing,” he said. At the time, Burt had been a fugitive 36 years.