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The Traveler… senseless tragedy…
August 1, 2016 by The Traveler · Leave a Comment
Today I traveled to New York City by the way of The New York Times dated August 2, 1966. There I found tragedy had stuck the campus of University of Texas. “An architectural honor student who had been undergoing psychiatric care carried an arsenal of rifles and pistols to the top of the 27-story University of Texas tower today and shot 12 persons to death before the police killed him. The student’s wife and mother were later found dead in their homes… The police identified the man as Charles J. Whitman…”. In all, he had shot an additional 34 people.
~The Traveler
Filed under: The 20th & 21st Centuries, The Hobby, Unusual, Fun & Bizarre
Tagged: 1960's, 1966, 20th century, clock tower, crime, sniper, Texas, University of Texas