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50 years ago, fear ruled Fourth: Reporter's petition measured effect of McCarthy
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"There was a copy of the Declaration of Independence on the wall in the city room," he said. "I went by and saw it and thought, this is real revolutionary. I wonder if I could get people to sign it now."
So he typed up the preamble to the Declaration, included six of the 10 amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights, and added the 15th Amendment. Hunter put all of it into the form of a petition, mimeographed it, then hit the streets.
Of the 112 people he talked to that day at Madison's Fourth of July celebration in Vilas Park, only one, a Madison insurance agent, agreed to sign the "petition."