Posted on 07/23/2016 6:07:46 PM PDT by Elderberry
“As big as a walnut, IIRC”
The brain, right?
Post 29 discusses his alcoholism.
Did not commit suicide.
yep
Actually, Houston McCoy, the hero who hated being called a hero. His shotgun blast brought Whitman down. McCoy died in 2012.
Martinez was there and had a .38 and took McCoy’s shotgun after Whitman was shot and then shot him again.
Read more at the link in Post 29: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102738984
I honestly never heard of McCoy until years later. Martinez was universally heralded as killing Whitman for years for which he became a Texas Ranger. McCoy was there with the school book manager who led them in through the ground tunnel. I found this depiction in Wikiepedia on the life of Ray Martinez.
“Martinez shot all six rounds in his revolver. Whitman returned fire, and McCoy shot nine pellets toward Whitman, hitting him across both eyes and through the top of his nose, then hit the left side of Whitman’s head. As McCoy looked above for more snipers, Martinez grabbed McCoy’s shotgun and fired point blank into Whitman’s left arm, where pellets entered Whitman’s chest.”
I don’t guess it really matters. I’m glad they killed that sick bastard.
An excellent resource regarding this horrific crime is “A Sniper in the Tower” by Gary Laverque. Charles Whitman had two brothers. One died in a bar fight in the early 70’s and the other brother came out of the closet, declared himself a homosexual and died of AIDS in the late 80’s.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2l3zla
The Deadly Tower ..... movie
lot of left wing anti-gun stuff but 1/10 historically correct..... it was in Austin
Not true. IUma yes, Ura no
True.
Just that popular media were depicting the Hispanic guy as the guy—we see all too often the white guy as absent or cowardly . . Much like the Jessica Lynch incident where she was depicted as fighting while it was her platoon mate that fought like a tiger. Other stories are out there but they don’t match the narrative that must be pushed.
In this case all involved did their part.
Cheers
Sound like upstanding citizens.
I’ll get the book.
I actually heard Jessica Lynch deny that she fired a round and that she surrendered quickly. ( she missed a turn) She said it was all administration hype.( DOES OUR GOVERNMENT EVER TELL THE TRUTH?)
Martinez was Hispanic who had served as an Army medic pre 1960 ( he married a blonde German girl). He may have been hyped for that but I really respected him for that day because of his bravery and for the fact he had finished his duties and was going home when he heard the shooting.The Texas Rangers are very elite down there, as you know. They number no more than 150 in the entire state. I have actually been friends with one and they are very respected and dedicated.They do not mess around.
Great discussion. I learned from it. I lived on infield road at the time with 3 guys. We had beers that night at the Tavern on Lamar and I don’t remember anyone smiling. Sad day.
The guys that day all did their job that day, sad that PC drives depictions of the event.
Texas Rangers: I was a Texas police officer back in the late 70’s and we had a female office that was just plain worthless and in a couple of years, moved out of state. . .and eventually back, never doing a career in Texas.
She bounded in and out of Texas and then was recruited in 1994 for the Rangers (female, black, perfect PC match). TO be a Ranger you must have earned a hard-core reputation. . .she had no such reputation, no dedicated and loyal law enforcement career in Texas.
Things is, this female black local police officer was brought on for PC reasons imposed by demoncRAT Ann Richards, not for her savy, bravery, sharp mind, physical abilities. . .and this lowering of Ranger standards was not welcomed by the old guys that earned their place in the Troop. Many resigned over it.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/27/us/women-rangers-struggle-in-a-macho-bastion.html?pagewanted=all
“But the pace of the diversification left much resentment among old-time rangers, who said deserving white men had been passed over for people with less impressive credentials.” Indeed.
“Things are going to have to change a hell of a lot more in this world before a female can ride into some little Texas town and tell the sheriff, ‘I’m the resident ranger on this case,’ “ the 6-foot-5 Mr. Jackson said in a telephone interview from his home in the high-desert town of Alpine. “I don’t care if she’s 9 foot tall and meaner than a barrelful of snakes. He’s not going to talk to her.””
FACT.
“Ms. Nix, who is black, said in an interview that she would have no comment on an incident last year in which two male rangers were suspended and later placed on agency probation after one of their neighbors picked up a cordless-telephone conversation in which, the neighbor said, the two men referred to her using racist and sexist slurs. Ms. Nix filed no complaint in the incident.
When she was asked if she had confronted either of her colleagues, she said, “We have discussed it, but I won’t go into details.”
According to the guys I know that were there, she “talked” and threatened their careers and they were not allowed to defend themselves. Heck of a “conversation.
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