Introducing: Season four of ‘Darkness’

Darkness

The Drag Audio Production House

True Crime

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Lionsgate Plus.
0:04.3	The third season of Alliancegate Plus original series The Great is streaming exclusively on
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0:10.1	Follow Catherine the second played by L Fanning and Peter The Great, played by Nicholas
0:13.7	Holt, as they hilariously attempt to make their marriage work after some seemingly insurmountable
0:18.2	problems.
0:19.2	From attempted murder and the imprisonment of close friends to their never-ending legal
0:22.6	responsibilities.
0:24.0	The Great, season three, is streaming exclusively on Lionsgate Plus.
0:31.0	If people pick one symbol of the University of Texas or they carry it away as an undergraduate,
0:40.2	what is it?
0:41.2	It's the town.
0:43.7	On August 1, 1966, a sniper climbed the steps of the University of Texas at Austin's
0:59.9	27th Story Tower.
1:01.9	Hello, this is Michael Paul at the History Department on the University of Kansas.
1:08.9	They're just going to make gunshots on the main target up to the main building.
1:14.9	Still shooting, it sounds like rifle shots.
1:16.9	Well, we got all of you that are going out there that's going to start with rifle.
1:21.9	17 people were killed and more than 30 others were injured.
1:25.9	Then all of a sudden, a high-powered rifle boy went past my right ear.
1:30.4	And that was when we saw people flying on the mall.
1:35.9	So my first thought was it was electric issue because it just feels like this huge joke.
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