Welcome to 10-minute murder, brief and bingeable true crime.

My name is Joe. I'm the host, and thank you for joining today. And when one of you listening suggested that I do this story, that I talk about the

story you're going to hear today, before I looked it up, I thought, Charles Whitman, I know who that guy is.

And I immediately thought of, we don't read and write poetry because it's cute.

We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion.

So medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

That is from leaves of grass by Walt Whitman.

Not the person we're talking about today.

Charles Whitman, Joe, you dummy.

So that was my mistake. But you can see where I would get confused, right?

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Now to today's story.

When Charles Whitman, armed with multiple firearms,

terrorized the University of Texas-Aust Austin campus on the 1st of August,

1966. It seemed that his only goal was taking as many lives as possible.

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