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The Main Building of the University of Texas at 12:53 p.m. August 1, 1966. The University of Texas tower shooting was an act of mass murder that occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin. The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public, both within the Main ...
The shooting was broadcast live on network television. University of Texas tower shooting: Austin: August 1, 1966: 18: A student, sniper, Charles Whitman, barricaded himself atop a campus tower, shooting at the people down below before being shot by Austin police officers. San Antonio parade shooting: San Antonio: April 27, 1979: 3
Midland–Odessa shootings. On August 31, 2019, a spree shooting occurred in the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa, involving a gunman shooting multiple people from a vehicle. [3] Eight people were killed, including the perpetrator, and twenty-five people were injured, including three police officers. It was the third major mass shooting ...
Box office. $101,987 [1] Tower is a 2016 American mostly- animated documentary film about the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas at Austin directed and produced by Keith Maitland. [2] The film follows the shooting from the perspectives of several survivors, recreating their recounts via actors filmed and later animated in rotoscoping. [3]
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September 15, 1999. Fort Worth, Texas. 8 [n 1] 7. 15. Wedgewood Baptist Church shooting: During a concert in the church for teenagers, the perpetrator entered and shot and killed seven attendees and wounded seven others before committing suicide. August 10, 1999. Los Angeles, California. 1.
Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American mass murderer and Marine veteran who became known as the "Texas Tower Sniper".On August 1, 1966, Whitman used knives to kill his mother and his wife in their respective homes, then went to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) with multiple firearms and began indiscriminately shooting at people.
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