Just before noon, from high atop the University of Texas Tower, an ex-Marine sharpshooter named Charles Whitman leveled his rifle over the railing, peered through his scope and shot a pregnant ...

Smoke rose from sniper Charles Whitman's gun as he fired from the tower of the University of Texas administration building on crowds below in Austin on Aug. 1, 1966. This year marks the 50th ...

In the 90 minutes it took Charles J. Whitman to terrorize the campus, the world changed. Mass shooting. Mass media response. Instant memorials to the fallen. Intense scrutiny of the murderer.

Both would be awarded the Medal of Valor by the city of Austin. Bettmann//Getty Images A view of the tower where Charles Whitman carried out his sniper spree through a bullet hole in glass.

On Aug. 1, 1966, an ex-Marine named Charles Whitman packed a half-dozen guns into a military-issue foot locker, lugged it to the observation deck of a 28-story tower on the campus of the ...

In 1966, on a hot Texas summer afternoon, ex-Marine sharpshooter Charles Whitman, 25, boarded an elevator in the University of Texas Tower with a cache of weapons, intent on deadly mayhem.

A rifle reportedly used to carry out one of the worst killing sprees in Texas history is up for sale in Dallas by a gun collector. The Remington 700 rifle used by ex-Marine Charles Whitman during ...

CANFIELD — Charles H. Whitman, 96, of Boardman, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, at the Shepherd of the Valley. Born March 3, 1928, in Youngstown, he was the son of the late ...

Charles Glen Whitman, 85, passed away on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. Charles, known as Glen, was born in Bend Oregon to Minnie Louise (Hanneman) Whitman and Charles Henry Whitman on March 13 ...