Domestic Terrorism

This is the bell tower at the University of Texas at Austin. It's a prominent landmark on campus and indeed in the city. Young, even middle aged folks probably just think it's a pretty building, but us old sloats still remember an incident that took place here forty years ago...it was major national news in the papers and Life magazine. There was a bloke named Charles Whitman involved. Charlie was an exemplary youth...he was an altar boy and an Eagle scout. He joined the Marines. But he had some family issues, and he had a wild streak, and by the age of 25, in 1966, he also had a cancerous brain tumor (he didn't know it) and he realized his reasoning was messed up, causing him to be really, really mad at times.
Well, one day (Aug 1 1966) he finally lost it totally. He murdered his mother and wife, and then he went up to the top of this tower with a whole lot of gear, including an arsenal, and started shooting. By the time the cops killed him, he had whacked 15 people and injured 31 more. Read the Wikipedia article on him...it's rather remarkable. He knew there was something badly wrong...he wrote a suicide note and requested that an autopsy be done on him to determine what the problem was (that's when his tumor was discovered), and he willed any money from his estate to mental health research, hopefully to prevent actions like the ones he was going to undertake. Yet he still did all this stuff! Boggles the mind.