Charles Whitman's shooting rampage 50 years ago shocked the nation. For Texans - especially those familiar with the University of Texas campus - it felt like a desecration.

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AUSTIN (KXAN) —Friday marks 59 years since the tragic University of Texas Tower shooting. On Aug. 1, 1966, a man by the name ...

On this date 50 years ago, Charles Whitman, a 25-year-old ex-Marine and engineering student, climbed to the observation deck of the Tower at the University of Texas in Austin and shot 49 people ...

About 50 years ago this past week — on Aug. 1, 1966 — Charles Whitman, a 25-year-old ex-Marine and engineering student, climbed to the observation deck of the Tower at the University of Texas ...

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower. He was a husband, a son and a marine — and the first mass shooter in United States history.

Charles J. Whitman was the eldest son of a Lake Worth plumbing contractor, a St. Ann High School graduate, a 25-year-old architect and engineering student, a husband — and a former Marine sniper.

Bids are starting at $25,000 for the sale of the rifle used by Charles Whitman during his deadly 1966 sniper rampage from atop the University of Texas clock tower that killed 16 people and wounded ...

Forty-three years ago tomorrow, Charles Whitman, a student at the University of Texas, entered the campus tower and began a shooting spree that would leave… ...

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