"Tower": Commercial-Free Rebroadcast WITH EXTRAS!

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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YOU GUYS!!! A few weeks ago we got the chance to sit down with "Tower" director Keith Maitland for full interview about the film. [That interview is now live on the Patreon feed.](https://www.patreon.com/posts/21993766)We chatted about how he made the film, how he tracked down the victims and won their trust, how he learned about the tower shooting as kid and why is stuck with him for decades before he finally made the film, and how it was to tell the story of the shooting--the first-ever mass school shooting--as the story had been something of a state secret for nearly 50 years. We play a 3-minute clip of the interview at the end of the episode. We wanted to rebroadcast this episode today so you could listen before listening to the interview with Keith! [So jump on over to the patreon feed and check it out!](https://www.patreon.com/posts/21993766) You guys, THIS EPISODE IS ALSO WHERE THE HERO BELL MAKES IT'S BEAUTIFUL DEBUT! Here's the original description of the episode: On August 1, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes in what was a previously unimaginable event. Based entirely on first person testimonies from witnesses, heroes, and survivors, TOWER combines archival footage with rotoscopic animation to tell the story of that day. The film highlights the fear, confusion, and visceral realities that changed the lives of those present, and the rest of us, forever - a day when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.

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0:26.9	Slack.com slash DHQ. Hey you guys. Surprise. Don't be scared. It's good news.
0:34.4	You guys, here we are. Here's our first ever re-broadcast. I know. How does it feel, everybody?
0:40.6	Tell us. It's a little strange. A couple of things to know. There's a good reason for
0:44.5	this re-broadcast. Yes. You guys, we just did an interview with Keith
0:47.5	Matlin, the guy who directed Tower. You mean our new best friend? Our new best friend, Keith
0:51.3	Matlin. Right. It was genius. He is genius. Yes. This re-broadcast has no ads. We took
0:56.2	all the ads out. We just wanted to listen and have fun. Yeah, because we wanted you to
1:00.1	have a little more context for some things while you're listening to the interview. Totally.
1:04.5	And so our interview with Keith is up right now on the Patreon feed. We're going to feature
1:08.3	a little piece of the interview at the end of this episode. If you want to hear the full
1:12.5	episode with Keith and all of the other amazing Patreon content, you know what to do. I'm
1:16.5	not even going to tell you. I mean, you guys know what's up. All right, let's get into the
1:20.1	episode. Yes. Enjoy.
1:27.1	Jillian Benz Valle. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi.
1:35.0	I'm girl. I wanted to tell the listeners just a little bit about our process before we
1:40.0	started. Okay. Because this morning I was watching Tower at like literally 4.30 in the
1:44.1	morning when I got up. And I a lot of times when I'm watching these documentaries, if something
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