Published: March 18, 2024, 9 a.m.
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The morning of Aug. 1, 1966, 25-year-old Charles Whitman called his wife\'s boss to say she\'d be out, then did the same for his mother. After killing the two women, he climbed atop the observatory tower at the University of Texas and relentlessly began picking off pedestrians below in an attack unlike any before witnessed in America.
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