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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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Charles Whitman, left, in 1966 before he killed 17 people at the University of Texas in Austin, and Stephen Paddock, right, in an undated family photo, who mimicked Whitman’s technique of ...

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… ...

Charles Whitman Stephens, Jr., age 82, passed away on Thursday, August 25, 2022. Born in Columbus County, NC on August 12, 1940, he was the son of the late Charles ...