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<p>Fifty years after the shooting, survivors, heroes and their families return to Austin. A committee pushes for a better memorial for the victims. Some testify at the Texas Legislature, trying to stop a law allowing guns on campuses.</p>

Episode 9: 'These people need closure' | 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.

If I told somebody I was in the first school shooting, they always say, oh, Columbine,

but the first school shooting, of course, was UK.

It's very hard for people in modern-day America to realize that this kind of thing did

Every time there is a mass shooting, the image another caught me as I tried it my sweet.

It's one of those things that come time as it passes on by.

This will fade somewhat from memory, but it will go away.

We should be reminded that this sort of thing did happen and can happen again.

I'm a senior policy advocate at every town for gun safety and in nearly eight years ago

I survived the shooting at Virginia Tech.

It was a shooting involving a young man with a diagnosis history of mental illness that

Colin Goddard sat in front of a microphone at a wooden table on February 12, 2015.

In front of him were the Texas State Senators who serve on the State Affairs Committee.

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.
0:08.4	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.
0:21.8	Mental health is an important part of this story, so please take care while listening.
0:29.6	Previously on this season of darkness.
0:32.1	If I told somebody I was in the first school shooting, they always say, oh, Columbine,
0:38.4	but the first school shooting, of course, was UK.
0:43.5	It's very hard for people in modern-day America to realize that this kind of thing did
0:55.6	not happen.
0:58.2	Every time there is a mass shooting, the image another caught me as I tried it my sweet.
1:03.4	It's one of those things that come time as it passes on by.
1:10.6	This will fade somewhat from memory, but it will go away.
1:15.4	And it shouldn't go away.
1:18.0	We should be reminded that this sort of thing did happen and can happen again.
1:29.2	My name is Colin Goddard.
1:32.4	I'm a senior policy advocate at every town for gun safety and in nearly eight years ago
1:36.4	I survived the shooting at Virginia Tech.
1:38.4	It was a shooting involving a young man with a diagnosis history of mental illness that
1:42.2	was what that went untreated.
1:44.4	Colin Goddard sat in front of a microphone at a wooden table on February 12, 2015.
1:51.0	In front of him were the Texas State Senators who serve on the State Affairs Committee.
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