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| Charles Whitman |
It was on Aug. 1, 1966 when the call came out over police radios throughout Austin, Texas that Charles Whitman, an architectural engineering student and former USMC sniper, climbed the clock tower at the University of Texas. He would go on to shoot 49 people, of which 18 died -- including a woman carrying a child and Whitman himself. Previously during that fateful day, Whitman had killed not only his wife, but also his own mother.
Whitman was perhaps one of America's first mass killers, a distinction that shouldn't bring any honor to him.
Meanwhile, a new documentary film, titled "Tower," is being directed by Keith Maitland. Reportedly, he is using animation, combined with original news photographs from the scene, to recount the events of that terrible day. Testimonials from eight of the survivors from the shooting spree are included in this film.
The film has already started opening in theaters around the country. One of the goals of this film is to strike a contrast between the reactions of society then to those of today, where incidents of spree shootings have become horrifyingly common.
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