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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.

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Map of the University of Texas at Austin campus marking key locations from the Charles Whitman Texas Tower shooting on August 1, 1966. Red dots indicate where people were killed, and pink dots show where people were wounded, with most incidents concentrated around the Main Building, Main Mall, and along Guadalupe Street. Major campus buildings and streets are labeled for reference.

Behind the scenes of reporting the 1966 Texas Tower shooting

The first mass school shooting in U.S. history

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Overview of the University of Texas System.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 19, 2026
	Add new Web site: Official Site of the University of Texas at Austin, United States.	Emily Rodriguez	Jul 07, 2023
	Added photograph.	Amy Tikkanen	Nov 13, 2015
	Add new Web site: Official Site of The University of Texas System.	Vivek Abhinav	Apr 12, 2013
	Add new Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Overview of the University of Texas System.	Vivek Abhinav	Apr 08, 2013
	Add new Web site: Official Site of The University of Texas System.	Vivek Abhinav	Apr 08, 2013
	Added new Web site: Official Site of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 15, 2006
	Added new Web site: Official Site of the University of Texas at Tyler.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 15, 2006
	Added new Web site: Official Site of the University of Texas at San Antonio.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 15, 2006
	Added new Web site: Official Site of the University of Texas at Tyler.	John Higgins	Jun 15, 2006
	Added new Web site: Official Site of the University of Texas at El Paso.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 14, 2006
	Added new Web site: Official Site of The University of Texas at Austin, United States.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 14, 2006
	Added new Web site: Official Site of the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 08, 2006
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 30, 2003
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998