194 | Tower of Terror: Charles Whitman Texas Tower Sniper
Talk Murder To Me
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🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman opened fire from the University of Texas, c 31 others. Charles was on the 28th floor (the observation deck) when he began firing, which lasted for 06 minutes.
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| 0:00.0 | Every train soldier knows that perching at the highest available peak will give you the best vantage point to see potential targets and incoming threats. |
| 0:10.0 | Not only does it give you the best position, but it also gives you a sense of godliness. |
| 0:16.7 | Where similar to Zeus, you can send lightning strikes down to the mortals below. |
| 0:21.7 | This was the exact mindset of Charles Whitman, the 25-year-old |
| 0:26.4 | former Marine who held a vendetta against life itself. This Texas Tower shooter's motto may will have been, when life gives you lemons, |
| 0:36.1 | grab a Remington 6 millimeter model 700 bolt action center fire deer rifle and shoot everyone in sight. I like the episodes where we drink wine. |
| 0:54.0 | Someone, some wine drunks? |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, remember the second episode, Murder and Marple? |
| 1:02.0 | That is one of my favorite episodes all the time. It really still is. episode. Yes! Murder and Marple. |
| 1:03.0 | That is one of my favorite episodes all the time. |
| 1:04.0 | It really still is and I just remember drinking a whole bottle of wine. |
| 1:08.0 | Surprise shots. |
| 1:11.0 | Surprise shots. Surprise shots. |
| 1:14.0 | We don't know what they are, because they're a surprise. |
| 1:17.0 | You know, the word surprise shot |
| 1:20.0 | actually goes along quite nicely with her episode tonight. |
| 1:26.0 | So as I said the word surprise shot goes along perfectly. |
| 1:29.0 | And does anyone want to guess what the surprise shot was? |
| 1:32.0 | Raspberry pucker. |
| 1:34.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:35.0 | Because tonight... |
| 1:36.0 | Good old cough syrup. |
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