Charles Whitman: The Full Story of the UT Austin Tower Shooting

On the morning of August 1, 1966, a 25-year-old former Marine named Charles Whitman carried a footlocker full of rifles, a shotgun, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition to the top of the University of Texas Tower in Austin. By the time police finally reached him 96 minutes later, he'd already killed his mother and his wife in the night, and would go on to kill more people from that observation deck than any single gunman had ever killed in one attack on American soil. It became the first mass...