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<p dir="ltr">The shooting continues along The Drag, a nearby street full of shops and restaurants. An employee of the university bookstore helps a wounded boy. More people join the rescue efforts. Students eating lunch and shopping take cover or run to safety. Police officers, students, and others get their guns and begin firing back at the sniper.</p> <p>\xa0</p>

Episode 3: 'It's like a battle scene' | 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.

We have a report of shooting at the University of Texas Tower.

Somebody is shooting from the tower, which had the immediate effect of making us all run

to the windows and see what was happening, and that was when we saw people lying on the

Monday I met Drummond for lunch, and he was coming back from a someplace I hadn't eaten.

In the summer of 1966, Bob Higley was working for University of Texas' student body president

Cliff had sent him to meetings in his place, and Bob had planned to catch him up over lunch.

It sounds to me like there's somebody up in the tower, they're telling me there's somebody

He said, let's go out and see what's happening, so we went down the back stairs to the

Neil Spells' KTBC radio broadcast had alerted most Austinites about the campus shooting.

But Bob hadn't seen what was going on for himself yet.

Bob and Cliff walked out the back of the Union, which lets out onto Guadalupe Street, or

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 Drac.
0:08.5	This podcast contains strong language, references and descriptions of domestic abuse, violence
0:14.9	and suicide.
0:16.8	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.
0:29.4	Early on this season of darkness.
0:38.1	We have a report of shooting at the University of Texas Tower.
0:45.7	Somebody is shooting from the tower, which had the immediate effect of making us all run
0:50.9	to the windows and see what was happening, and that was when we saw people lying on the
0:57.4	wall.
1:02.5	Monday I met Drummond for lunch, and he was coming back from a someplace I hadn't eaten.
1:09.4	In the summer of 1966, Bob Higley was working for University of Texas' student body president
1:15.6	Cliff Drummond.
1:17.3	Cliff had sent him to meetings in his place, and Bob had planned to catch him up over lunch.
1:22.0	He came in and was stoked up.
1:24.8	It sounds to me like there's somebody up in the tower, they're telling me there's somebody
1:27.9	up in the tower.
1:28.9	He said, let's go out and see what's happening, so we went down the back stairs to the
1:35.2	Student Union building.
1:37.2	Neil Spells' KTBC radio broadcast had alerted most Austinites about the campus shooting.
1:44.8	But Bob hadn't seen what was going on for himself yet.
1:49.1	Bob and Cliff walked out the back of the Union, which lets out onto Guadalupe Street, or
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Episode 3: 'It's like a battle scene' | The UT Tower Sniper

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