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Episode 1, 2, 3, & 4 Source Material

Charles Whitman: The UT Bell Tower Shooting


Ep 1 Aired November 2nd 2021 - Dia de Los Muertos

Ep 2 Aired November 14th 2021

Ep 3 Aired December 27th 2021

Ep 4 Will Air December 30th 2021

  1. https://thedailytexan.com/2017/08/07/alumnus-reflects-on-illicit-ut-tunnel-adventures/

  2. Subterranean City: The UT Steam Tunnels,” a 2005 documentary -https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1539069/

  3. https://towerhistory.org/profiles/cheryl-botts-dickerson/

  4. The couple that wasn’t shot by him but saw him and stepped over edna’s blood

  5. https://tynan.com/the-secret-tunnels-under-ut/

  6. TUNNELS!!!

  7. https://www.nct911.org/what-is-the-history-of-911-in-texas/

  8. History of 911

  9. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/50-Charles-Whitman-debate-Austin-sniper-killed-UT-7940750.php

  10. Debate continues over who shot him

  11. https://murderpedia.org/male.W/images/whitman_charles/docs/letter.pdf

  12. The letter after he killed his mom

  13. https://www.har.com/penthouse-condominiums/highrise_1027

  14. 1212 guad condos IRL today (where his mom lived back in the day)

  15. https://catapult.co/stories/listening-to-kathy

  16. Kathy’s story

  17. https://ohbabynames.com/all-baby-names/nelson/

  18. Nelson means champion by way of neil - also nelson mandela was given the name nelson by a teacher growing up

  19. https://untpress.unt.edu/catalog/lavergne-sniper-in-the-tower/

  20. https://www.sunsigns.org/famousbirthdays/d/profile/charles-whitman/

  21. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/an-ex-marine-goes-on-a-killing-spree-at-the-university-of-texas

  22. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.biography.com/.amp/political-figure/charles-whitman

  23. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2016/07/29/50-years-after-charles-whitman-the-narcissistic-emptiness-of-the-mass-shooter-hasn-t-changed/

  24. https://www.statesman.com/news/20160903/claire-james-survived-whitmans-bullet-the-baby-she-carried-didnt

  25. Clarie James and Tom.... tragic

  26. https://www.texastribune.org/2014/08/01/after-48-years-whitmans-unborn-victim-gets-headsto/

  27. Gravestone

  28. https://apps.texastribune.org/guns-on-campus/allen-crum-helped-stop-ut-tower-shooter-charles-whitman/

  29. Allen Crum

  30. https://www.statesman.com/news/20160903/whitmans-father-copes-by-suppressing-memories

  31. "I love you. That’s it."

  32. https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/aushc/00489/ahc-00489.html

  33. Police dept records

  34. https://www.brainsciencefoundation.org/news/coping-personality-behavioral-changes/

  35. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24593853/

  36. Right amygdala makes ppl chiller - SAD etc

  37. https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/2016/07/31/the-tower-shootings-autopsy-revealed-tumor-but-questions-linger/92160062/

  38. Pecan sized brain stuff

  39. https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Whitman_official_report.pdf

  40. Committee fact finding report from sept 8th!! An Inventory of the Governor’s Fact-Finding Committee Report on the Charles J. Whitman Catastrophe at the Texas State Archives, September 8, 1966

  41. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2010/06/moving-well-being

  42. http://www.garylavergne.com/whitman-why.htm

  43. https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/50095/tsl-50095.html#scopecontent

  44. https://www.purewow.com/wellness/psychological-effects-of-moving

  45. http://behindthetower.org/ladies-first

  46. MORE DETAILS ABUOT MOM

  47. https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/whitman-charles-victims.htm

  48. GREAT GRAPH

  49. https://www.texasmonthly.com/category/topics/ut-tower-shooting/

  50. “The UT Tower Shooting was the first mass campus murder in America,”

  51. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4715995

  52. Dope timeline of g bay

  53. https://www.newswire.com/news/author-francis-j-schuck-jrs-new-book-the-charlie-i-knew-a-factual-20846147

  54. Francis j shuck’s book! The guy who introduced Kathy and CW

  55. https://www.pe.com/2019/02/16/priest-named-on-molestation-list-was-texas-snipers-scoutmaster-friend-and-confidant/

  56. Drunk priest friend is weird and on molestation list

  57. https://medium.com/the-coil/jo-scott-coe-talks-to-herself-a-self-interview-about-mass-a-sniper-a-father-and-a-priest-41254ea367ba

  58. MASS - book about priests impact on CW

  59. Teacher at point blank which details Kathryn’s story and legacy.

  60. Again i didnt read either book but I did read a lot of articles by the author-- Jo Scott-Coe “In MASS, I was trying to understand a story that had been told over and over again, reinforcing silences and narrative patterns that I found deeply unsatisfying, if not disturbing."

  61. I really adored this. This first episode took me a lot longer than I originally thought for many reasons but by and large due to emotionally triggering findings like the ones Scott-Coe mentions

  62. https://www.nrahlf.org/articles/2016/3/20/poaching-is-not-hunting/

  63. https://www.fws.gov/international/laws-treaties-agreements/us-conservation-laws/lacey-act.html

  64. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/Tower-Shooting-Anniversary/2016/07/28/family-shares-private-memories-of-kathy-leissner-whitman




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