What the records say
- When
- 1 Aug 1966
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 18
- Coordinates
- 30.29° N, 97.74° W
- Description
- mass shooting
- Injured
- 33
University of Texas tower shooting
1966 mass shooting in Texas, U.S.
The University of Texas tower shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin. The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public, both within the Main Building tower and from the tower's observation deck.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sniper Charles Whitman kills 15 people and wounds 31 from roof of the University of Texas at Austin Main Building tower in the United States”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “テキサスタワー乱射事件。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page