I wrote two different introductions for today's show, wildly different introductions in fact,

so given the topic du jour of free will, I'm going to let you choose the introduction you want to listen to.

If you want to hear the very serious uncomfortable and dark introduction, stay it's coming up I warn you it is dark

if you want to hear the thinky philosophical lighter introduction skip ahead about nine minutes.

You got to make your choice though.

Ready?

Okay.

BBC Television News now presents a special program on today's mass murder in the capital city.

Here is K-T-BeeC television news editor Neil Spels.

Good evening.

One of history's worst mass murders occurred here in Austin today. By official count tonight, 49 persons were hit by gunfire.

There are 16 dead and 33 injured. It started last night when a man reportedly killed his wife and his mother.

That same man apparently rounded up an arsenal and supplies this morning and then went to the observation

deck of the University of Texas Tower. It was then that terror was and then

the observation deck of the University of Texas Tower. It was then that terror rained down from the tower.

That broadcast is from the fateful day of August 1, 1966, right year in Austin, Texas, referring to the mass shooting at a tower on the

UT campus. An event which is disturbing on two levels. The first, the horror of a mass shooting is self-evident. A 25-year-old

marine veteran named Charles Whitman climbed a clock tower on the UT campus and for

96 terrifying minutes fired shots at people down below.

He killed 15 and injured another 31 before two police officers were able to take him out.

Absolutely horrible.

An unfathomable tragedy, an act of unmitigated evil, right? Here's where the second disturbing part comes in.

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