Charles Whitman
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican mass murderer and spree killer; perpetrator of the University of Texas Tower shooting (1941-1966)
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 national media coverage.
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Whitman, age two, c. early 1944
Whitman around 1959 (age 18)
Whitman and Leissner at their wedding in 1962
Whitman's journal
Whitman (right), pictured with his wife, Kathleen, and friend Larry Fuess in May 1966
Main building of the University of Texas at Austin. Whitman fired at people on the ground from the observation deck.
One of the handwritten notes discovered at Whitman's home which he had composed in the hours before his deathFilmography 3
The Killing of America
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Murderers, Mobsters & Madmen Volume 1Awards 1
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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 national media coverage. A former Marine and architectural engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin, Whitman killed 17 people and wounded 31 others on August 1, 1966, in a series of attacks that began the night before when he stabbed his mother and wife to death in their respective homes. Armed with multiple rifles and other weapons, he fatally shot three people inside UT Austin's Main Building, then accessed the 28th-floor observation deck on the building's clock tower. There, he fired at random people for 96 minutes, killing an additional eleven people and wounding 31 others before he was shot dead by the Austin Police Department.
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