Outlaws & Scorned Women

The Clock Tower Sniper

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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
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