![]() ![]() It will turn off the tower clock for 24 hours, starting from 11:48 a.m., when the first shots rang out from the perch 50 years ago. On Monday, the university will unveil a stone monument selected by a committee of the victims that bears the names of those killed when it holds its first official ceremony. Last year, she lobbied unsuccessfully to have Texas lawmakers halt campus carry. James, then eight months pregnant, survived the attack but lost her baby. Unlike the mass shootings in recent months and years that are followed by vigils, remembrances and counseling, the remnants from the carnage were quickly cleaned up and students soon returned to their business.įox went home after his act of heroism and did not meet the woman he helped pulled to safety, Claire Wilson James, until a few years ago as part of documentary that was being put together on the shooting. Whitman was killed by police after he unleashed 90 minutes of terror by shooting more than 40 people from one of the highest spots in the Texas capital. The Texas shooting in which Whitman, a 25-year-old former Marine who brought a cache of weapons to the tower’s observation deck about 250 feet (76 meters) in the air, was considered one of the seminal events of the era and the first U.S. ![]() But back then, no one knew how to handle situations like this,” he said in an interview in late July. In 1966, he was a 17-year-old student who crossed one of the killing fields on campus to help carry a pregnant woman shot by sniper Charles Whitman to safety. A university is a battleground of words and ideas, and not of weapons,” said John “Artly” Fox. The campus carry law allows those over 21 with a concealed handgun permit to take guns into classrooms and several parts of the campus. The lawmakers say the “campus carry” law, which goes into effect August 1, could prevent another mass shooting, while many survivors of the university tower shooting half a century ago see it as a chillingly wrong-headed approach that could spark more killing. 1, 1966 tower shooting is the start of a new law backed by Republican lawmakers to allow more guns in more places at public universities. REUTERS/Jon Herskovitzīut overshadowing the anniversary of the Aug. A stone memorial to the 16 people and one fetus who died in the Augmass shooting is seen ahead of it being officially delegated at a ceremony on Augto mark the 50th anniversary of the killing at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, U.S. ![]()
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