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	Charles Whitman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Whitman's trunk contained a (An extremely powerful rifle developed for the military; capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away) sniper rifle and numerous other weapons including the sawed-off shotgun for close-in use, deodorant, a radio, shaving gear, snack food and other items.
		A fast-thinking policeman tried to distract or even shoot Whitman by flying around the tower in a small airplane commandeered from a local air park; but his plan to fire at him from the plane was abandoned when it became obvious that a stray bullet could hit innocent people in upper offices/classrooms in the tower.
		Whitman actually took shots at the airplane and the lawman on board suddenly realized the predicament he would be in if the pilot was hit, because he had no flying experience.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_whitman.htm (3114 words)

	Charles Whitman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 - August 1, 1966) was an Eagle Scout and former Marine who, on August 1, 1966, shot and killed 10 people from the tower of the University of Texas at Austin Main Building.
		Whitman's choice of victims was indiscriminate and his accuracy was impressive; two hits found their mark more than 450 yards away from the tower.
		References to Whitman's tower-spree have abounded in the decades since it initially happened, remaining at the forefront of public consciousness though many are unaware of the exact details surrounding the event.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Whitman (2515 words)

	Charles Whitman: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Charles Whitman
		He entered the observation deck of the University of Texas bell tower with a rifle, and proceeded to shoot down from the tower into the area, aiming at random civilians who happened to be in the area.
		Law enforcement officials tried to distract Whitman by flying a small airplane past the tower; but the attacks continued until the observation deck was stormed by three volunteers who took it upon themselves to stop the killing.
		The reason behind Whitman's suicidal rampage is still unknown, though it has been suggested that he had a mental disorder (a brain tumor was discovered during the autopsy), that he was under the influence of amphetamines, and that he was homicidal-suicidal.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ch/Charles-Whitman.html (257 words)

	Charles S. Whitman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles S. Whitman (September 29, 1868 - March 29, 1947) served as Republican Governor of New York between 1915 and 1919.
		Whitman graduated from Williams College, class of 1890.
		As District Attorney, he gained national fame in prosecuting New York City Police Lt. Charles Becker for the July 16, 1912 murder of Times Square gambling house operator Herman "Beansy" Rosenthal in front of West 43rd Street's Hotel Metropole (owned by Lower East Side Tammany Hall leader "Big Tim" Sullivan).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_S._Whitman (206 words)

	What Was Then - "It's Coming from The Tower"
		Charles Joseph Whitman towed a green military footlocker on a rented dolly up to the elevator doors of the UT Tower elevators.
		He took the elevator to the 27th floor and then dragged the heavy footlocker with the rented dolly one flight of stairs to the 28th floor where he killed 51 year old Edna Townsley, the floor receptionist with the butt of a gun to the back of her head.
		Whitman was walking around and shooting from all four sides of the tower with such speed that first reports included more than one gunman.
	www.whatwasthen.com /uttower.html (1405 words)

	Charles Whitman biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Whitman was an architecture major at The University of Texas at the time.
		Had Whitman arrived on the deck slightly later, he would have been in time for summer session lunch hour foot traffic as classes let out--the number of potential victims would have been greatly increased.
		He refused further treatment; on the coroner's report, the cause of death was listed as "homicide." His son remarked in the press after the funeral that his father was the bravest, most stoic man he had ever known.
	charles-whitman.biography.ms (2633 words)

	Books: Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights (Austin Chronicle . 09-08-97)
		He relentlessly pushed eldest son Charles to succeed, laying a strap on the piano as the boy practiced, coercing the child to become the world's youngest Eagle Scout at age twelve, "endowing" the boy with every shred of his own tortured "American Dream" psyche.
		Charles Whitman were living on Jewell Street in South Austin, the paragons of their neighborhood.
		Whitman viewed this mortal coil as a hell to be endured until "summoned" to a better place (Whitman's arcane religious beliefs would have made him perfect for Seventies religious cults had he lived that long).
	weeklywire.com /ww/09-08-97/austin_books_feature2.html (1651 words)

	ipedia.com: Charles Whitman Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the afternoon of August 1, 1966, ex-Marine Charles Joseph Whitman (June 23, 1941 - August 1, 1966) embarked on a shooting spree that left sixteen residents of Austin, Texas dead and thirty-one others wounded.
		Whitman was an architecture major at The University of Texas and an ex-Marine.
		Had Whitman timed his ascent to arrive slightly later at noon, he would have made it out onto the observation deck in time for lunch hour foot traffic and the number of victims would have been greatly increased.
	www.ipedia.com /charles_whitman.html (1207 words)

	Charles Whitman-Deadly Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles J. Whitman, a 24 year-old architectural engineering student who once rejected psychiatric help, climbed to a ledge near the top of the 307-foot tower and calmly stalked scores of summer students, professors and visitors to the rolling green campus.
		The wife, Kathleen, 23, was stabbed to death in the Whitman apartment.
		Whitman, an ex-marine, ex-alter boy, ex-Eagle Scout, left three notes, one a rambling two-page letter which said his mother would be better off in heaven and that he hated his father "with a mortal passion."
	www.montgomerystudio.com /lonestar/lsd_pg35.htm (837 words)

	Charles Whitman a NESEPer and the 1963 University of Texas Tower Sniper
		In 1959, Charles was in the upper quarter of his high school class.
		Whitman drove to the ground floor entrance of the Tower.
		Whitman was walking along the open-air deck, shooting pedestrians from all four sides of the tower with such speed that there was confusion as to who exactly was shooting - some people feared that there might be more than one sniper at work.
	members.cox.net /risk1/NEASP/cwhitman.htm (755 words)

	Charles O. Whitman's Flock
		Whitman was notable for the loyalty of his students.
		Whitman's death threw the responsibility for presenting his many unpublished studies to the world onto the shoulders of his scientific friends.
		Whitman was soon forgotten in the avalanche of new data.
	www.apexcorp.com /~rmangile/Pigeons/COWhitman_bio.html (1222 words)

	Charles Whitman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the afternoon of August 1, 1966, ex-Marine Charles Joseph Whitman (June 23, 1941 - August 1, 1966) embarked on a shooting spree that left fourteen residents of Austin, Texas dead and many more wounded.
		Had Whitman not been held up by a locked door in the tower, among other things, he would have made it to the observation deck in time for lunch hour traffic and the number of victims would have been greatly increased.
		The local Secret Service agents from the Johnson administration as well as the local sheriffs and campus police came to assist at the scene, but he was well barricaded.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/charles_whitman (607 words)

	Charles Whitman
		Whitman became unstable when, after years of ill-treatment, his mother left his father in March 1966.
		At 11.40 a.m Whitman began shooting at students; he was an expert ex-Marine marksman.
		An autopsy showed Whitman had a tumour in the hypothalamus region of the brain.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/hammer/73/whitman.html (292 words)

	AUSTIN'S DARKEST HOUR: Charles Whitman and the UT Tower Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But Whitman's 96 minutes of terror became the darkest hour for the state capital of Texas, and with his massacre, the tower's symbolism immediately changed from one of greatness to one of horror.
		The night before, Whitman had brutally murdered his wife and mother in a twisted attempt to spare them the embarrassment of what he was planning.
		Whitman enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp in 1959 and later successfully applied to a scholarship program which led him to the University of Texas at Austin.
	tower.jdedman.com (1375 words)

	Encyclopedia: Charles Whitman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Location of the amygdala in the human brain Located in the brains medial temporal lobe, the almond-shaped amygdala (in Latin, corpus amygdaloideum) is believed to play a key role in the emotions.
		The Charles Whitman shooting spree contributed to the impetus to establish SWAT teams in cities around the United States.
		The 1994 movie "Higher Learning" portrays the Whitman imitation clock tower shooting by a white supremacist member.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Charles-Whitman (3729 words)

	Charles O. Whitman, Zoology
		At the end of his career in Zoology, Whitman withdrew from administrative and teaching responsibilities at the University and at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
		Whitman's students at Chicago and Woods Hole were normally given immediate responsibility for research projects, regardless of their background or understanding.
		Whitman's contribution to the study of biology and zoology came from both his own research and from the influence achieved as the chief organizer of afield of study.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /projects/centcat/centcats/fac/facch03_01.html (468 words)

	Charles Whitman
		Charles Whitman born to Margaret and Charles Whitman, Lake Worth FL.
		Charles Whitman honorably discharged from U.S. Marine Corps.
		Whitman is buried at Hillcrest Memorial Park, Cloud Lake FL.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/spree-killers/charles-whitman (312 words)

	Whitman Forensics Newsletter
		Charles gave an eloquent yet light-hearted speech, giving well deserved credit to Jim’s ability to manage an extremely successful policy, parliamentary, and individual events program while at the same time grilling him over his tyrannical control over the van ride music selection.
		Throughout the week we were joined by esteemed Whitman grads like Thad Blank and David Guidry who judged practice rounds and helped shape our negative strategies for the first tournament.
		Whitman’s debate camp grew even more this summer attracting 70 plus participants from all over the nation.
	www.whitman.edu /rhetoric/newsletters/fall2003.htm (3125 words)

	Charles Whitman: The Texas Tower Sniper
		Until Whitman undertook his shooting spree in Austin, Texas, public space felt safe and most citizens were utterly convinced they were comfortably removed from brutality and terror.
		Whitman’s story stands out for many reasons, not the least of which being that it features a co-star—the University of Texas Tower, from which he fired almost unimpeded for 96 minutes.
		The Tower afforded Whitman a nearly unassailable vantage point from which he could select and dispatch victims.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial/whitman (737 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: WHITMAN, CHARLES JOSEPH
		Charles Joseph Whitman, tower sniper, was born in Lake Worth, Florida, on June 24, 1941, the oldest of three sons of Margaret and Charles A. Whitman, Jr.
		On the observation deck of the tower, at an elevation of 231 feet, Whitman then opened fire on persons crossing the campus and on nearby streets, killing ten more people and wounding thirty-one more (one of whom died a week later).
		Altogether, seventeen persons were killed, including Whitman, and thirty-one were wounded in one of the worst mass murders in modern United States history.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/fwh42.html (624 words)

	City of Austin - Austin History Center: Charles Whitman Resources
		Whitman, Margaret E. Inquest Docket, Justice of the Peace Precinct 5, Travis County, Texas, 1960-1972.
		Archival Photo Collection includes photographs that were taken by the Police Department and photographs, belonging to Whitman, that were seized by the Police as part of the investigation.
		The 1963 yearbook includes the yearbook photographs of students Kathleen and Charles Whitman.
	www.ci.austin.tx.us /library/ahc/whitmat.htm (631 words)

	Charles S. Whitman,III of Davis Polk & Wardwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles S. Whitman,III of Davis Polk and Wardwell
		Whitman is a member of Davis Polk and Wardwell’s Corporate Department.
		Whitman joined Davis Polk in 1968 and became a partner in 1977.
	www.dpw.com /lawyers/bio/whitman.htm (276 words)

	Charles Whitman
		Whitman used that privilege as a right to cause destruction and inflict pain in an attempt to solve problems of his own demise.
		Charles Whitman’s past greatly effected the United States.
		Charles J. Whitman was born June 24, 1941.
	www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=11837 (281 words)

	Charles B. Whitman and Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles B. Whitman stands between his father and brother Ray.
		Charles B. Whitman wrote the genealogy book "The Annapolis Valley Whitmans" which though it is now out of print and quite difficult to come by, is regarded as an important work in Whitman family research.
		Brian is the nephew of Charles B. Whitman.
	whitmania.com /pdpdpd/album/people/WHITMANcharlesFAM.htm (79 words)

	Texas Governor's Committee and Consultants: An Inventory of the Report on the Charles J. Whitman Catastrophe at the ...
		The report documents the evidence used by a team of medical experts to attempt to determine whether or not a medical explanation existed for the mass murder committed by Charles Whitman at the Tower on the University of Texas, Austin campus in 1966.
		The materials document the evidence used and results reached by a team of medical experts in their attempt to determine whether or not a medical explanation existed for the mass murder committed by Charles Whitman at the Tower on the University of Texas, Austin campus in 1966.
		Because the report is publicly available elsewhere and because the information contained in the report has been widely circulated, the report is open to the public in spite of the usual 100 year restriction on medical records.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/50095/tsl-50095.html (783 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Place: Downtown Austin Charles J. Whitman picked up his wife from her summer job as a telephone operator and dropped her off at home.
		He then drove across town to his mother's apartment and stabbed her five times, shot her once in the back of the head, and squeezed her left hand so hard that her engagement ring broke her finger and the stone in it broke.
		Later, at Whitman's request in a letter in his duffel bag, an autopsy was performed.
	www.harrychapin.com /music/sniper/sniper (359 words)

	AALBC.com's Guide to African American Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Also revealed is the shocking information about Whitman's family life; he was not the all-American young man gone suddenly insane as he was depicted in the media.
		His biographical account of Charles Whitman and his struggle with his father help the reader understand some of the torment that went through his life.
		Lavergne introduces you to all of Whitmans victims as they were your next door neighbors, and...
	aalbc.com /cgi/aalbcamazonproductsfeed.cgi?item_id=1574410296&search_type=AsinSearch&locale=us (374 words)

	City of Austin - Charles Whitman Materials at the Austin History Center
		Charles Whitman and Kathleen (Leisnner) Whitman are listed by name and address in the city directories in the mid-1960s.
		Lavergne, Gary M. A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Mass Murders.
		After the event articles on the Whitman murders typically appear in August especially around the beginning of the month during anniversaries of the event.
	www.ci.austin.tx.us /library/ahc/whitman_materials.htm (404 words)

	Amazon.com: A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders: Books: Gary M. Lavergne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His objective view is important when he tells the controversial information behind the killing of Charles Whitman and the end to the massacre.
		It protrays the effects of having the media splash their lives as heroes all over the newspapers and shows just what type of man could be the Father of Charles Whitman.
		For 96 minutes in August 1966, Charles Whitman rained death on the University of Texas campus, shooting 45 people from the 28th-floor observation deck of its bell tower.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1574410296?v=glance (1745 words)

	Charles Whitman - biography and links for University of Texas spree killer sniper
		Charles Whitman was born on 24 June 1941 in Lake Worth, Florida.
		A few minutes before 3:00 a.m., Whitman killed his wife, Kathy, as she slept by stabbing her five times in the chest with a hunting knife.
		Cold-Blooded: The Saga of Charles Schmid, The Notorious "Pied Piper of Tucson" by
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/charles_whitman.html (1526 words)

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