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Jun 29, 2017 · The University of Texas Tower Shooting, one of the worst mass murders in American history, took place on August 1, 1966, on and around the University of Texas at Austin (UT) campus when Charles J. Whitman, an enrolled student, took control of the observation deck of the iconic Tower and fired various weapons onto the campus and its surrounding ...
Learn more about the documentary. TOWER, a documentary mixing animation and live-action, is the story of America's first mass school shooting, at the University of Texas, Austin, 1966.
On August 1 of that year, having earlier in the day killed his wife and mother, Whitman fired down from the clock tower on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, killing 14 people and wounding 31 others.
Nov 13, 2009 · August | 1. Choose another date. 1966. An ex-Marine goes on a killing spree at the University of Texas. Charles Whitman takes a stockpile of guns and ammunition to the observatory platform...
96 Minutes. On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower and started firing—and the rest, literally, is history.
Texas Tower shooting of 1966, also called University of Texas clock tower shooting, (Aug. 1, 1966) Mass shooting in Austin, Texas, in which Charles Joseph Whitman, a student and ex-marine, fired down from the clock tower on the campus of the University of Texas, killing 14 people and wounding 31 others before he was shot and killed by police.
Nov 20, 2016 · July 26 - November 20, 2016. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman, a twenty-five year old University of Texas student and ex-marine, climbed to the top of the iconic University of Texas Clock Tower and went on a shooting spree, killing 14 people and wounding at least 33 others.
