Publisher: University of North Texas Press | 1997 | ISBN 1574410296 | PDF | 340 pages | 11.6 MB
The bodies kept falling, the blood was real, and the man on the deck, a consummate actor for a number of years, was no longer acting. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman ascended the University of Texas Tower and committed what was then the largest simultaneous mass murder in American history. He gunned down forty-five people inside and around the Tower before he was killed by two Austin police officers. During the previous evening he had killed his wife and mother, bringing the total to sixteen people dead and at least thirty-one wounded.