32: Tower

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On August 1, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes in what was a previously unimaginable event. Based entirely on first person testimonies from witnesses, heroes, and survivors, TOWER combines archival footage with rotoscopic animation to tell the story of that day. The film highlights the fear, confusion, and visceral realities that changed the lives of those present, and the rest of us, forever - a day when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.

For this one, you guys, the garbage bell is magically transformed into the hero bell. And there's a whole lot of dinging.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:07.4	Gillian Benz Malay!
0:09.4	Hi!
0:10.4	Hi!
0:10.9	Dun dun dun!
0:12.0	Um, girl, I wanted to tell the listeners just a little bit about our process before we
0:17.4	started.
0:18.4	Okay.
0:19.4	Because this morning I was watching Tower at like literally 4.30 in the morning when I
0:21.9	got up and I a lot of times when I'm watching these documentaries, if something ridiculous
0:25.9	happens, I will take a video of it, like a 30 second video and text it to you and we'll
0:29.6	laugh it.
0:30.6	I haven't already watched it.
0:31.6	I keep taking notes about it.
0:32.6	But then I was like, taxi and I was like, this is so funny and I went to listen to it
0:36.1	back on my phone and I realized I was wearing headphones and you couldn't hear any.
0:39.6	Yeah.
0:40.6	And then I was like, wait, is this a file I sent you and had no sense of humor about it
0:43.3	because we had like our super was here ripping our kitchen sink out and it was just like,
0:47.8	I was like, what?
0:48.8	And then you corrected and you were like, no you idiot.
0:50.7	I can't like just re-read the text and I was like, I promise I'll have a sense of humor
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