The 1966 massacre of 17 people is considered the first U.S. mass shooting. — -- A solemn ceremony today at the University of Texas at Austin marked the 50th anniversary of what in 1966 was an ...

AUSTIN — Bells from the tower at the University of Texas-Austin rang at precisely 11:40 a.m. Monday, signaling an Army color guard to lower flags to half-staff and a bagpiper to play, as several ...

Whitman began shooting from the tower at 11:48 a.m. (CST) and was killed at 1:20 p.m. The tower, a Texas landmark, is a slender, four-sided structure 30 stories tall in the center of campus.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Before Virginia Tech and Columbine, Sandy Hook, Aurora and Orlando, there was the University of Texas tower shooting. It was shortly before noon on a sweltering Monday ...

The University of Texas at Austin clocktower, where a mass shooting took place in 1966, is shown on July 5, 2016. (Photo for The Washington Post by Ilana Panich-Linsman) ...

The University of Texas tower shooting on Aug. 1, 1966 was a massacre of 16 people and is considered the first US mass shooting. For 96 minutes, the gunman took aim from atop the UT Tower on Aug ...

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AUSTIN, TX -- Before Virginia Tech and Columbine, Sandy Hook, Aurora and Orlando, there was the University of Texas tower shooting. It was shortly before noon on a sweltering Monday morning, Aug ...

Fifty years after the Tower shooting, the University of Texas is finally honoring the victims. ... The University of Texas at Austin remembers with profound sorrow the tragedy of August 1, 1966.

Before Monday's Virginia Tech deaths, the deadliest campus shooting in the United States was at the University of Texas on Aug. 1, 1966. Firing from the top of a tower on campus, Charles Whitman ...

San Antonio police confirmed the death of a woman injured in a four-vehicle crash on Friday afternoon. AUSTIN – It is known as the first mass shooting in modern U.S. history. On August 1, 1966 ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Before Virginia Tech and Columbine, Sandy Hook, Aurora and Orlando, there was the University of Texas tower shooting. It was shortly before noon on a sweltering Monday morning, Aug ...