UT Tower Shooting 50th Anniversary
photo by Jana Birchum, posted Aug. 1, 2016. #30 of 30 photos.
Survivors and others impacted by the shooting tragedy visit the memorial to remember the people killed by engineering student Charles Whitman on Aug. 1, 1966. Whitman, who first killed his wife and mother, went on a shooting rampage while perched atop the university tower. All told, he killed 17 people and wounded dozens of others.
