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<p>The sniper opens fire on the University of Texas campus and the surrounding area. He shoots a pregnant woman, leaving her on hot concrete in the middle of the gunfire. A local radio reporter heads to the scene. Students in a Shakespeare class watch out the window as a police officer is shot.\xa0</p>

Episode 2: 'Like I was being electrocuted' | The UT Tower Sniper

This podcast contains strong language, references and descriptions of domestic abuse, violence

It also has graphic descriptions of gun violence in schools.

Mental health is an important part of this story, so please take care while listening.

Um, you know, it was summer school, so not as many people were around as during the

It was after much thought that I decided to kill my wife, Kathy, tonight after I pick

her up from work at the telephone company.

I love her dearly, and she has been as fine a wife to me as any man could ever hope

I could not rationally pinpoint any specific reason for doing this.

Now, a single story that I had prepared to be covered that day was covered at all.

18-year-old Claire Wilson sat in the University of Texas's Student Union Basement.

The summer semester was Claire's first, but she had made friends in Austin quickly.

She met 18-year-old Thomas Eckman in her anthropology class, and they began dating.

That was pretty much love at first sight.

Thomas taking summer classes at the University of Texas before attending Houston Tilletson

On August 1, 1966, a sniper climbed the steps of the University of Texas at Austin’s 27-story tower. Seventeen people were killed and more than 30 others were injured. Fifty-six years later, mass shootings make headlines nearly every week. And the University of Texas tower looms over campus, a reminder of one of the first mass school shootings in United States history that has long been forgotten.

In season four of “Darkness,” host Sara Kinney walks through the day of the University of Texas Tower shooting and outlines its legacy among the decades-long epidemic of gun violence in schools. Hear from survivors, heroes and family members about their day in 1966, their lives since then and the state of gun control today.

0:00.0	You're listening to The Drag.
0:07.9	This podcast contains strong language, references and descriptions of domestic abuse, violence
0:14.3	and suicide.
0:16.2	It also has graphic descriptions of gun violence in schools.
0:22.2	Mental health is an important part of this story, so please take care while listening.
0:28.5	Obviously on this season of darkness.
0:31.0	It was hot, typical August.
0:34.4	Um, you know, it was summer school, so not as many people were around as during the
0:43.0	fall and spring.
0:44.8	It was after much thought that I decided to kill my wife, Kathy, tonight after I pick
0:49.3	her up from work at the telephone company.
0:51.8	I love her dearly, and she has been as fine a wife to me as any man could ever hope
0:56.5	to have.
0:57.8	I could not rationally pinpoint any specific reason for doing this.
1:01.7	Now, a single story that I had prepared to be covered that day was covered at all.
1:10.6	18-year-old Claire Wilson sat in the University of Texas's Student Union Basement.
1:19.9	The summer semester was Claire's first, but she had made friends in Austin quickly.
1:25.6	She met 18-year-old Thomas Eckman in her anthropology class, and they began dating.
1:31.6	That was pretty much love at first sight.
1:35.2	We just never were part after that.
1:39.0	Thomas taking summer classes at the University of Texas before attending Houston Tilletson
1:44.0	University in the fall.
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Episode 2: 'Like I was being electrocuted' | The UT Tower Sniper

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