Charles Whitman
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Charles Joseph Whitman was an American mass murderer who committed the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting, one of the first mass shootings in modern American history to receive widespread nationa
Whitman in 1963
Whitman, age two, c. early 1944
Whitman around 1959 (age 18)
Whitman and Leissner at their wedding in 1962
The University of Texas tower shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin. The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscrim
Charles Whitman
…Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American mass murderer who committed the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting, one of the first mass shootings in modern American history to receive widespread national media coverage. A former Marine and architectural engineering…
The Main Building of the University of Texas, seen through a store window shattered by a bullet fired from the observation deck.
Margaret Elizabeth Whitman
Kathleen Frances Whitman
The rifles and sawed-off shotgun used by Whitman in the University of Texas tower shooting