Marine, stabbed and shot his mother to death and killed his wife with a knife in their respective homes before going to a tower on the. Later, the paper noted one of his guns was purchased at Sears that morning, and that he told a doctor, he sometimes thought about shooting people. On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman, a troubled former U.S. This deck, from which the sniper did his shooting, is one of the city's major attractions." (Read more about the memorial at the University right here). the tower, which houses the university's library and administrative offices, is the focal point of the campus and its observation deck. Whitman is the tallest building in Austin, jutting 27 stories above the normally placid campus. In their articles, Whitman was called "the typical American boy." On the day of the shooting, they wrote: "The tower that today served as a fortress for Charles J. The NY Times heavily covered the incident, which made their front page. Prior to the incident, Whitman had killed his wife and mother. Cranford VINE VOICE Best study of the Charles Whitman incident Reviewed in the United States on NovemVerified Purchase I first read about Charles Whitman in The Saturday Night Special by Robert Sherrill (1973)-somehow I missed the media frenzy in 1966. David Gunby, one of the first people shot on campus, died over. 275 total ratings, 91 with reviews From the United States Alan D. On August 1st, 1966 he opened fire on the university's campus, killing 16 people and wounding 32 others-he was eventually shot and killed by the Austin Police Department's Houston McCoy. Whitman did his major damage with a 700 ADL Remington hunting rifle. In addition to 14 sniper victims, Whitman had also killed his wife and mother the night before. Whitman was a student at the University of Texas at Austin, and a former Marine. things seem so random, all of a sudden." Later, at Pete and Trudy's dinner party, the incident comes up again, when Megan says, "They said he had a brain tumor, he kept warning everyone." The sniper they're referring to is Charles Whitman, and when someone at the dinner table gets his last name wrong, Don corrects them saying, "it's Whitman" (as in Dick Whitman, Don's true identity). Last night on Mad Men, the teenage girl in Pete's driving class asks, "Didn't you hear about the sniper at the University of Texas today? Just two weeks after those nurses in Chicago.
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