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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (227495)4/17/2007 4:02:42 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"This was one incident that took over from the UT tower shooting as the most deadly. That was, what, 40 years ago."

I was there. I'm from Austin, Texas. My buds and I had cut class in HS and were heading down to the University to leer at college girls, who we all thought were stunningly beautiful. We heard the breaking news on the car radio and headed straight for the tower.

We parked and headed for the tower. First, we entered a building right across from the tower where Whitman had shot several people through the windows. We were listening to the incoming reports on a transistor radio. We peeked through some windows up at the observation deck and watched as Whitman drove off a helicopter and a light plane and shot a few more people. We'd all been up on the tower and were familiar with it.

Then, we heard that Whitman had been shot. We raced over to the tower. The police were streaming in, but didn't have control yet. They had the elevators controlled though, so we raced up the interior fire stairs to the observation deck level, where we stepped out of the fire stairs to the lobby, where we saw huge pools of blood. At that point a cop saw us, and made us leave.

Whitman had made some unbelievable shots from that tower. It was later found that the ex-Marine had a brain tumor that may have caused his behavior.
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