At the top of the University of Texas Tower 35 years ago, Austin policemen Houston McCoy and Ramiro “Ray” Martinez risked all to end the killing spree of ex-Marine Charles Whitman. The press initially credited Martinez with taking Whitman down, but after the coroner’s report was issued, it seemed
Thirty years later, the legacy of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree at the University of Texas still towers above us.
Founded by Andrew Yang, Christine Todd Whitman, and David Jolly, the new party claims to encompass the left, right, and center. Its Houston launch, while well attended, prompted doubts about its viability.
In “Parties Around a Punch Bowl,” Kimberly Schlegel Whitman offers a year’s worth of seasonal cocktail recipes.
A reminder that Charles Whitman’s shooting spree resonated far outside of Texas.
Officials at an El Paso hospital are scrambling after exposing more than 700 babies to TB, and Charles Whitman's rifle is up for sale.
On a sweltering Monday in August 1966, Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower and began shooting pedestrians below, killing eleven people and forever altering the lives of many others. In this excerpt from her new novel, Elizabeth Crook reimagines the day that changed everything.
At 11:48 a.m. on August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman began firing his rifle from the top of the University of Texas Tower at anyone and everyone in his sights. At 1:24 p.m., he was gunned down himself. The lives of the people who witnessed the sniper’s spree firsthand would never
Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about tracking down eyewitnesses and listening to their accounts of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree from atop the University of Texas Tower.
The element most conspicuously absent from our tour of the University of Texas Tower was any mention of sniper Charles Whitman.
The truthscouts honorabout Charles Whitman.
Fifty years after the Tower shooting, the University of Texas is finally honoring the victims. What took so long?
Plus: A lyrical, blistering new memoir and a four-dollar answer to dinner.
A massive box set reveals all the quirks and charms of a San Antonio–born genius.
After the Sutherland Springs tragedy, he looked at his phone and saw strangers wishing he would die. But they had the wrong Devin.
Half a century after the 1966 UT tower massacre, mass shootings have only become more common.
Readers respond to the August 2016 issue.
Your guide to the Texas-based directors and plots appearing at this year's SXSW Film conference.
And what it tells us about the next generation of gun rights activists.
Blue Bell to return to North Texas and legislators back down on therapy cuts.
Marc Ambinder, politics editor and blogger for The Atlantic, writes that the Democratic message for the fall elections is shaping up to be, “We may be incompetent but they’re crazy.” Good party messages are organic, and they are not announced. Fortunately for Democrats, theirs just sort of came
Senior editor Pamela Colloff on talking to the Texas Rangers.
“Management” has suggested that I use this blog to tout the many wonderful articles in our August issue, which is hot off the presses. At first, I was very huffy about this, but then I realized that I wasn’t keeping up with the times. I
Why has it taken so long for my sons to get married? Is it the wet towels mildewing on their apartment floors? The pocket change accumulating on every flat surface? Or is it that I've given them a skewed idea of what women expect?
The most famous bank-robbing lovers of all time weren't nearly as glamorous as Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Although the fragile, pretty Bonnie Parker had her good points, Clyde Barrow was a scrawny, two-timing psychopath. They were straight out of a country and western ballad. And when they died in
The University of Texas Tower figured in which movies?
Before the 1996 election, George W. Bush’s presidential chances were just talk. Now they’re hot. Jack Kemp blew his opportunity to be the undisputed standard-bearer with a mediocre—and, some say, disloyal—performance as Bob Dole’s running mate. The next GOP nominee will almost surely be someone who hasn’t run for president
Primary color: Dole on a roll, a report card for the Religious Right, and other fallout from Election Day.
What do the city of Lubbock, a defunct restaurant, and a submerged neighborhood have in common? They’re all places in somebody’s heart.
Montgomery County inmate Dorothy Canfield allegedly wanted to hire a hitman to mimic the Kaufman County slayings.
At the top of the University of Texas Tower 35 years ago, Austin policemen Houston McCoy and Ramiro “Ray” Martinez risked all to end the killing spree of ex-Marine Charles Whitman. The press initially credited Martinez with taking Whitman down, but after the coroner’s report was issued, it seemed
Thirty years later, the legacy of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree at the University of Texas still towers above us.
Founded by Andrew Yang, Christine Todd Whitman, and David Jolly, the new party claims to encompass the left, right, and center. Its Houston launch, while well attended, prompted doubts about its viability.
In “Parties Around a Punch Bowl,” Kimberly Schlegel Whitman offers a year’s worth of seasonal cocktail recipes.
A reminder that Charles Whitman’s shooting spree resonated far outside of Texas.
Officials at an El Paso hospital are scrambling after exposing more than 700 babies to TB, and Charles Whitman's rifle is up for sale.
On a sweltering Monday in August 1966, Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower and began shooting pedestrians below, killing eleven people and forever altering the lives of many others. In this excerpt from her new novel, Elizabeth Crook reimagines the day that changed everything.
At 11:48 a.m. on August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman began firing his rifle from the top of the University of Texas Tower at anyone and everyone in his sights. At 1:24 p.m., he was gunned down himself. The lives of the people who witnessed the sniper’s spree firsthand would never
Senior editor Pamela Colloff talks about tracking down eyewitnesses and listening to their accounts of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree from atop the University of Texas Tower.
The element most conspicuously absent from our tour of the University of Texas Tower was any mention of sniper Charles Whitman.
The truthscouts honorabout Charles Whitman.
Fifty years after the Tower shooting, the University of Texas is finally honoring the victims. What took so long?
Plus: A lyrical, blistering new memoir and a four-dollar answer to dinner.
A massive box set reveals all the quirks and charms of a San Antonio–born genius.
After the Sutherland Springs tragedy, he looked at his phone and saw strangers wishing he would die. But they had the wrong Devin.
Half a century after the 1966 UT tower massacre, mass shootings have only become more common.
Readers respond to the August 2016 issue.
Your guide to the Texas-based directors and plots appearing at this year's SXSW Film conference.
And what it tells us about the next generation of gun rights activists.
Blue Bell to return to North Texas and legislators back down on therapy cuts.
Marc Ambinder, politics editor and blogger for The Atlantic, writes that the Democratic message for the fall elections is shaping up to be, “We may be incompetent but they’re crazy.” Good party messages are organic, and they are not announced. Fortunately for Democrats, theirs just sort of came
Senior editor Pamela Colloff on talking to the Texas Rangers.
“Management” has suggested that I use this blog to tout the many wonderful articles in our August issue, which is hot off the presses. At first, I was very huffy about this, but then I realized that I wasn’t keeping up with the times. I
Why has it taken so long for my sons to get married? Is it the wet towels mildewing on their apartment floors? The pocket change accumulating on every flat surface? Or is it that I've given them a skewed idea of what women expect?
The most famous bank-robbing lovers of all time weren't nearly as glamorous as Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Although the fragile, pretty Bonnie Parker had her good points, Clyde Barrow was a scrawny, two-timing psychopath. They were straight out of a country and western ballad. And when they died in
The University of Texas Tower figured in which movies?
Before the 1996 election, George W. Bush’s presidential chances were just talk. Now they’re hot. Jack Kemp blew his opportunity to be the undisputed standard-bearer with a mediocre—and, some say, disloyal—performance as Bob Dole’s running mate. The next GOP nominee will almost surely be someone who hasn’t run for president
Primary color: Dole on a roll, a report card for the Religious Right, and other fallout from Election Day.
What do the city of Lubbock, a defunct restaurant, and a submerged neighborhood have in common? They’re all places in somebody’s heart.
Montgomery County inmate Dorothy Canfield allegedly wanted to hire a hitman to mimic the Kaufman County slayings.
