Recently released on DVD and Blu-ray via The Criterion Collection, the movie is also notable for what inspired it: the University of Texas tower shooting in 1966.

Movie review of “Tower”: Using newsreel footage, rotoscoped animation and talking-head interviews, this documentary re-creates the events surrounding the 1966 Texas Tower massacre with a ...

He had killed his wife and mother prior to heading to the tower, one victim died a week later and medical examiners eventually attributed a 17th death to Whitman in 2001.

The UT Tower shooting is infamous as America’s first mass school shooting. Meet the survivors and heroes of that day in “Tower,” an animated documentary film. Keith Maitland's feature-length ...

However, the events at Austin’s University of Texas Tower in 1966 — when 25-year-old engineering student Charles Whitman opened fire on the campus square with a sniper rifle, killing 14 people ...

He eventually killed 16 people — including his wife and mother before entering the tower — and wounded about 30 others before he was killed by police. The incident introduced the nation to the ...

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State's borders. Today, we look at the 2016 ...

Fifty years ago, on August 1, 1966, a 24-year-old sniper positioned himself on the observation deck of the Clock Tower overlooking the University of Texas, Austin. His name was Charles Joseph Whitman.

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