[22202NOVA]

I’m pretty sure no one called 911 in 1966, since the system didn’t get approved until 1968. Then again, maybe they were on hold for a really long time.

[abb]

I recall watching it on TV at age 16 in the new house that Mamma and Daddy had built. We had only moved in a couple of months before.

[Harold Shea]

I rember the made for TV movie back then...chilling.
The team that took him out..brave men.

[Aarchaeus]

News broadcasters told us that several private citizens, i.e., not law enforcement officers, stopped their cars, got their hunting rifles out and provided some of the covering fire for the police.

[Aarchaeus]

News broadcasters told us that several private citizens, i.e., not law enforcement officers, stopped their cars, got their hunting rifles out and provided some of the covering fire for the police.

[yarddog]

I took a criminology class and there was an entire chapter devoted to Whitman.

One thing I recall is Whitman left a message that he wanted to have an autopsy done to see if he had a brain tumor. They did find one and then had the audacity to say it did not contribute to his insanity, if that is what you call it.

In his insane way he used what was probably as deadly a weapon as he could have chosen for his particular job. It was a .264 Winchester Magnum.

I read an article by the Hispanic cop who most credit with taking him out. He said that Texas students got their own guns out of their pickups and began shooting back.

He stated categorically that Whitman did not kill any more as he was kept down by the students fire. The media tried to make the armed students out as stupid yahoos.

[Mears]

It was live on TV-—I had the black and white TV on and it was eerie to hear the shots.

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[stockpirate]

The police only had .38s and shotguns and couldn’t advance on the tpwer. A prof. at the school took his hunting rifle from his truck and returned fire making the shooter hide, this allowing the police to gain entrence to the. Building and kill him

[SomeCallMeTim]

Ping

[montag813]

HARTMAN: Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was? None of you dumbasses knows? Charles Whitman killed twelve people from a twenty-eight-storey observation tower at the University of Texas from distances up to four hundred yards. ....
Do any of you people know where these individuals learned to shoot? Private Joker?

JOKER: Sir, in the Marines, sir!

HARTMAN: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!

[angry elephant]

I was explaining to a friend who has always been a Republican but not always well educated about various issues that ALL of the mass shootings for years have been by registered Democrats and/or Muslim terrorists.

She asked So are there no right-wing mass murders?

And I replied maybe the UT 50 years ago, but I was no really sure who that guy was.

[Rushmore Rocks]

“Hogg Foundation”

Texas governor Hogg had two daughters. Ima and Ura.

[BluH2o]

Remember the Texas Tower incident, I was in the US Marine Corps at the time and the shooter was reported to be a former Marine. The summer of 1966 “Hot Time Summer in the City” was the #1 recording on the megawatt rock & roll radio stations of that era.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

‘White guys shoot people too, y’know.’

[DAC21]

Seems to me Kurt Russell played the killer in the TV movie.

[Fiddlstix]

But a few people recognized the sounds of the shots, including then associate professor Michael Hall. He called 911 to report the gunfire.

“Hello, this is Michael Hall at the History Department from the university campus,” he said in the 9-1-1 recording. “There has just been a gunshot on the main plaza outside the main building and at least one person wounded.”

Pure BS!!! The Was NO 9-1-1 Back Then in 1966!
IF You Had A Major Emergency Back Then You Dialed "0" For The Operator And Told Her....
She In Turn Connected You With The Police, Fire, Ambulance,...whatever...
That's How Things Were Done Back Then!

BTW, I'm A Native TEXAN And I'm Certainly old enough to remember The Event Very Well

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I know someone who lost their father that day. Very sad.

[Repeal The 17th]

WIKI:
In the early morning hours of August 1, 1966,
Charles Whitman murdered his wife and his mother in their homes.
Later that day, he brought a number of guns,
including rifles, a shotgun, and handguns,
to the campus of the University of Texas at Austin
where, over an approximate 90 to 95 minute period,
he killed 14 people and wounded 32 others.

[The Mayor]

I remember even tho I was only 10

[yetidog]

I was a grad student on campus that day having just finished 3 yrs with the USAF. I came out of the Communications Building when some students in a basement window well told me to get back inside...which I did. Some students with cameras made money that day selling pictures to the media. Will never forget it.