Charles Whitman

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Portrait of Charles Whitman in a suit and tie, facing forward and smiling.

Black-and-white photo of the University of Texas clock tower with smoke rising from a window below the clock, marking the location of the 1966 sniper attack by Charles Whitman.

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American assassin

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Portrait of Charles Whitman in a suit and tie, facing forward and smiling.

Charles Whitman

Charles Whitman, 1966.

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Black-and-white photo of the University of Texas clock tower with smoke rising from a window below the clock, marking the location of the 1966 sniper attack by Charles Whitman.

Texas Tower shooting

Smoke rising from sniper Charles Whitman's gun as he fires from the clock tower of...

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