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Communication with headquarters was difficult, with few handheld radios, and the phone system was jammed across the city. The shootings would spur the creation of SWAT teams across the country, but at that time, the Austin Police Department had no tactical unit to deploy. One of those pictures ended up being the cover photo for the magazine; it was taken through the store window, which was shot up with bullet holes, looking up at the Tower. | If you are an existing subscriber and haven't set up an account, please register for an online account. And that meant addressing the issues that had caused them to close it in the first place; we had to have a physical barrier to prevent suicides and accidents, and we had to have a credible way of screening for weapons. He looked annoyed and said, “Get up! There was zero traffic. Whitman was blond, good-looking, solidly built. Go over that list of names again, please.” Well, his grandson was Paul Sonntag. The women were assaulted and left for dead. There was nothing anyone could ever point to and say, “Oh, that’s why.” It just remained a mystery. We wanted to take a look at the guy who did this; we wanted to see him led out in handcuffs, or dead. Previous page of related Sponsored Products. It was hot, so it had turned dark. As soon as he finished, Paul Bolton, who was back in the newsroom, grabbed the microphone and said, “Joe, hold it.” Bolton was the very first television news anchor in Austin, a good friend of LBJ’s. HARPER SCOTT CLARK: A bullet of Whitman’s had ripped a big chunk out of one of the balustrades on the South Mall, and for the rest of the time I was at UT, whenever my friends and I would stroll by there, we would run our fingers inside it and look up at the Tower and think contemplatively. The consensus in the medical community, however, was that the tumor was probably not to blame, given its size and location. Drummond said something to the effect of “Let’s go get him.” We looked each other in the eye and had a Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid kind of moment. And the week before August 1, and the week after, I think about it night after night. When you got up there, it was calm and cool, and you could see for a long ways. We were right at the end of that era, with the Peter Pan collars and the circle pins and the Pappagallo shoes and the fraternity and sorority parties. I kept down, because the bullets that civilians were firing from down below kept hitting the limestone and showering dust and little pieces of rock. By the eighth month, your baby’s moving a lot. In fact, cars were sitting out in the middle of the Drag with their doors hanging open, motors running, no one in them.
She is an associate professor of rhetoric at Penn State University, in University Park, Pennsylvania. And then it was over. I ran as fast as I could, zigzagging toward the Tower, and somehow made it without getting shot. I went back years later and saw that someone had filled it in with plaster. MICHAEL GABOUR: I regained consciousness when my father tried to pull me down the blood-filled hallway. I just said, “Don’t go out there. The guy says, “No, I’m serious. In the first few minutes of Whitman’s killing spree, many students were unaware of what was happening; some thought it was the work of drama students or an experiment being performed by the psychology department or just a joke. The Tarrant County medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. I’m alive.” He said, “Yeah, that was pretty close.” And I said, “Yes, sir, it was too close. The story was only about seven or eight inches long, but it ran around the world. I had just started to turn toward my family when the first blast caught my left shoulder. One of the orders that [UT regent] Frank Erwin gave was “Clean this mess up.”, SHEL HERSHORN was a photographer for Life magazine. There was a quality of suspended animation. I thought, “Son of a bitch! He had to shoot through those drain spouts, or he had to pop up real fast and then dive down again. The story of 4 lives slammed together in a shocking moment. We couldn’t afford to have any distractions. I was in the classics department, on the highest floor of the Tower, just below the observation deck, helping an assistant professor catalog some cards for his dissertation. He is a spokesman for the Texas Department of Transportation in Austin. I made my way to the east window in the Texas Union stairwell and was more or less marveling at this nut on the Tower until a shot came in through the open window and hit the arm of the guy beside me. It was devoted to ideas and learning. It may sound trivial, but he took that away. My brother, my aunt, and my mother followed slightly farther behind. A retired Texas Ranger, he lives in New Braunfels. Don thought—I know this sounds crazy—that he was there to shoot pigeons. My wife was six months pregnant, and she was stuck on the fourth floor of the Tower, in the stacks. It was only associated with tragedy.
Lots of students were still walking around campus in amazement. I was eight months pregnant at the time. When she arrived at the Greyhound station, she met UT student Don Walden, and they struck up a conversation. I didnt give the movie 5 stars because i did not like the ending. ROBERT HEARD was a reporter for the Associated Press. I told him to go for help, and he did. Then he played something else, though I don’t remember what.
There was a pregnant woman who was twisting, wilting, in the hot sun. I ran toward Batts Hall, and I’d just gotten inside when the bell rang. Whitman rode the elevator to the twenty-seventh floor, dragged his footlocker up the stairs to the observation deck, and introduced the nation to the idea of mass murder in a public space. I was still thinking that Sonntag had been badly wounded, that he was capable of being resuscitated. A retired teacher, she lives in Richardson. It turned out that Whitman had gone into the Student Health Center that spring complaining of terrible headaches and depression and had seen a psychiatrist named Maurice Heatly.
You could hold off an army for as long as you wanted.” He wasn’t like you or me; instead of seeing the Tower, he saw a fortress. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We were eating sandwiches when some guy busts open the door and jumps up on the bar and starts screaming for everybody’s attention. Since that time, the university’s stance had always seemed to be to try to erase what had happened, but with absolutely no success. A basketball coach named Billy Snowden saw what was happening on the news and got out of the barber’s chair to get a better look. CLAIRE JAMES: Tom never said another word. The shooting outside sounded just like rolling thunder, and the reports of the guns down below were echoing back and forth off of the buildings. The next thing I saw was this reddish-brown swath that we had to step over. Leave them blank to get signed up. After one session I never saw the doctor again, and since then I have been fighting my mental turmoil alone, and seemingly to no avail. Keep down!”. Whitman said, “The Marines can kiss my red-white-and-blue ass.”. There were wounded people, dead people, people whose conditions I did not know lying on the sidewalk. To me, the university had always seemed like an idyllic place that was separate from the rest of the world.
He must have heard the gunshot and turned to look over his shoulder at the Tower as he was walking down the Drag. She and other victims lay where they had fallen on the hot cement and tried to play dead. One of the things we looked at was how, in that institutional memory vacuum, pop culture had been able to turn Whitman into a cool antihero. Garth Jones couldn’t write home for money. I had to learn how to walk again. BARTON RILEY was an instructor in architectural engineering. We walked out onto the observation deck and enjoyed the view on all four sides, looking down at the whole city. he did an awesome job. ANN MAJOR: It seemed like every other guy had a rifle. The barrel of what looked like a sawed-off automatic twelve-gauge shotgun was coming up to firing position. Neal Spelce, who was broadcasting live several blocks south of the Tower and whose report was playing on transistor radios across campus, said, “The sniper is dead.” All told, Whitman had shot 43 people. This guy is good.”. I didn’t have much sympathy for whoever was up there shooting. There was a really loud noise that sounded like filing cabinets had fallen down the stairs. It was sheer terror not knowing if we would be able to escape or if someone was going to come back there and finish us off.
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