Tower Page #3

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a telephone to call my wife.

My wife knew

it was my lunch hour

and I knew

that she would worry.

So...

[gunshot]

I knew that if I could

make it to the Tower

that I could make contact

with the store...

[slow-mo gunshot]

And my wife.

[school bell rings]

- What a day

for a daydream

What a day

for a daydreaming boy

- I went to high school

at Austin High.

Graduated May of '66.

I wanted to get freshman

English out of the way

so I started at the University

of Texas in the summer.

- And even if time

ain't really on my side

It's one of those days

for taking a walk outside

- We went to class that

morning,

and then during

the lunch break

I went over to play chess

with James Love.

- And fall on my face

On somebody's

new mowed lawn

- James and I had graduated

from Austin High together

in May.

And I went over to where

he lived at the STAG Co-Op.

- Since I woke up today

It's starring me

and my sweet dream

- We were listening

to the Top 40

and playing chess

in his room.

[record scratches]

- We interrupt this program

to bring you

a special bulletin

from ABC Radio.

- They said somebody was on top

of the Tower with an air rifle.

- Air rifle? [chuckles]

- Shooting with an air rifle.

Didn't sound dangerous to us.

Sounded exciting.

- You wanna go check it out?

- Yeah, let's go.

[upbeat rock music]

- Things may go

and things may stay

- We were just walking down

the middle of a road

and a guy waved at us.

"Get out," you know?

"Get under cover."

[gunshot]

"Get out of the street."

[gunshot]

And that

was the first sign we had

that things

were "bad" wrong.

[faint gunshots]

By the time that James and I

had walked onto campus...

I'm sure over a dozen people

had been murdered...

and we didn't know it.

- This is a KLRN

news bulletin.

A sniper

with a high-powered rifle

is firing at persons

within his range.

All Austin-area residents

are warned

to stay away from

the University of Texas area.

- It's an unbelievable sight.

The serene

University of Texas campus,

a temperature approaching

100 degrees now,

and a madman located on top

of the University Tower

firing and shooting at any

movable target that he can see.

- The shot that hit me

bypassed me

and ricocheted

off the building.

Everybody was

in a state of panic.

- Then what happened?

- Then everybody ran.

- It's like a battle scene.

It's like--There he goes!

And another shot. There are

two different kinds of shots.

Apparently police are

returning the fire now.

- I got lucky, considering

what happened to other people.

- There's no report

as to who this man may be,

or what he's doing up there,

or what prompted

this apparent madness.

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