1 hr 9 min

The Clock Tower Sniper Outlaws & Scorned Women

    • True Crime

Austin, TX - On August 1, 1966 a lone man with a rifle held an entire city hostage for 96 minutes. We tell the story of our nation's first mass shooting, ponder nature vs nurture, and hash out the legal what-if's. Then we, I dunno, hug some puppies or something, cuz lawd this one is dark.
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Sources:
Lavergne, Gary M. "A Sniper In The Tower: the Charles Whitman Murders"Denton, TX 1997
Colloff, Pamela. "96 Minutes", Texas Monthly, August 2006
Rosenwald, Michael. "'He was looking straight at me': The brave officer who helped stop Charles Whitman", Washington Post, August 1, 2016
KTBC FOX 7 Austin. "UT Tower Shooting Video | Austin, TX 1966" Youtube. August 1, 2016

Austin, TX - On August 1, 1966 a lone man with a rifle held an entire city hostage for 96 minutes. We tell the story of our nation's first mass shooting, ponder nature vs nurture, and hash out the legal what-if's. Then we, I dunno, hug some puppies or something, cuz lawd this one is dark.
----more----
Sources:
Lavergne, Gary M. "A Sniper In The Tower: the Charles Whitman Murders"Denton, TX 1997
Colloff, Pamela. "96 Minutes", Texas Monthly, August 2006
Rosenwald, Michael. "'He was looking straight at me': The brave officer who helped stop Charles Whitman", Washington Post, August 1, 2016
KTBC FOX 7 Austin. "UT Tower Shooting Video | Austin, TX 1966" Youtube. August 1, 2016

1 hr 9 min

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