Monte Akers was a 16-year-old kid living in the Texas Panhandle at the time of the UT Tower shooting. Akers is currently a historian, author…

“I had just graduated from UT and was working for the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health on the 24th floor of the Tower the day…

Leland Ammons was in his first year of Law School at UT in August of 1966. He was a graduate of the UT Business School.…

“I do have a thought or two about that dreadful day. My friend Claudia Rutt lost her life that afternoon while walking down the Drag…

“I was on campus on August 1, 1966. I was between my junior and senior undergraduate years and working full time at the Defense Research…

Margaret Berry was UT-Austin’s Associate Dean of Women in August of 1966. Berry first came to Austin as a freshman in 1933. She left in…

On the morning of the shooting John Boswell dropped off his girlfriend Ann in class at a building across from the Tower – the English…

Judy Winkel Brooks was on campus on Aug. 1, 1966 for freshman orientation. She was planning to attend UT that fall. Winkel Brooks remembers freshman orientation was…

“I was there that day and though things have grown a little fuzzy after 50 years some things I have certainly not forgotten. I had…

In the summer of 1966, Jim Bryce was a philosophy and mathematics student, taking summer course in algebra and computer programming. He was also working…

“I remember some aspects of the incident quite well, as I was in class at the business school completing one of the last courses required…

“Gene Hall and I were on a three-month lowball senior trip to England and continental Europe. On August 1, 1966 we were in Rome, Italy.…

“My then-newlywed husband and I were attending our last semester of classes that summer of 1966 in August when Charles Whitman opened fire on the UT campus. We…

Cheryl Botts Dickerson was known as one-half of “the luckiest couple in Austin.” She and Don Walden left the observation deck and greeted Charles Whitman as they walked…

“I was going to summer school in the business building and staying in the Scottish Rite Dormitory. I needed stamps and the post office was at…

“Yes, I was on campus on August 1, 1966. My story may be of no interest to you but here goes. I do not remember…

“August 1, 1966: I woke up that morning thinking what the rest of the week held. I had a quiz coming up and needed a…

Ken Eickmann was a UT-Austin student in August of 1966. He was attending an ROTC Summer Camp in Oklahoma when news of the Tower shooting…

“I was attending UT when the Chi Omega girls were killed. I was dating a Chi Omega at the time and my fraternity big brother…

Larry Faulkner was a graduate student at UT-Austin between the summer of 1966 and the summer of 1969. He had only been at UT for…

Roger Friedman grew up in Austin. During his youth he made friends with another young boy, Paul Sonntag. Friedman recounts that Sonntag was his “first…

Rosa Garcia was set to enter UT-Austin as a transferring junior in the fall of 1966 but had no place to live on campus. After the…

“I graduated with a BS in Pharmacy in August, 1966, and was on campus that day. My father was a professor of Mechanical Engineering, and we had…

“I was going to summer school in August of 1966 at UT, and working part-time at Capital National Bank at night. I remember August 1 well. I…

Jim Giles was a UT PhD during the shooting and was almost hit by a bullet. He was later on campus for the Northern Illinois…

Tom Graves was on and near campus the day of the UT Tower shooting and was a witness to some of the events. He was getting…

“I was on campus that memorable day. I was a resident at Almetris Co-op and was heading to a class. It was a bright sunny…

William “Tex” Gross was 24 years old in August of 1966. He had graduated from UT-Austin in 1965 and was working toward a Master’s Degree…

Michael Hall was an assistant professor at UT Austin in 1966. He was the person who made the first emergency call to Austin Police. While many…

Lash Hansborough was 23 years old in August of 1966. He had just graduated UT-Austin in June with a degree in mechanical engineering Hansborough was…

Maitland Huffman was an Assistant Professor in the Management Department at UT in the summer of 1966. At the time of the UT Tower shooting, he…

Kay Bailey Hutchison was a law student at UT-Austin in August of 1966. On the day of the UT Tower shooting she was on campus…

Jan Klinck was a 22-year-old student in the College of Pharmacy in August of 1966. He went to Scholz’s Beer Garten after his 8 am…

Sally Sue Davis Klinck was a 21-year-old UT-Austin student in August of 1966. She was in McAllen, TX planning her wedding at the time of…

Nick Kralj started as a student at UT-Austin in 1961. He lived in Cactus Terrace Dormitory and started a poker circle until a dorm manager…

“Yes, I remember that day very well. Although, I am not sure that my recollections from that day are likely to be of much interest to…

Yolanda Laurel moved from Laredo, TX to study pharmacy at UT-Austin in 1965. She lived in the dorms across from Pharmacy Building and was in…

Gary Lavergne was a 10-year-old kid in August of 1966. He saw the UT Tower shooting on TV from his home in Louisiana. Lavergne’s father…

“My boyfriend Sid, who is now my husband of over 47 years, and I were students attending summer school that summer. I was studying in…

“I was in a German class on the second floor of Batts Hall when we started hearing popping noises. One of the students in class…

“Yes, I was there at UT on Aug. 1, 1966 – in the Tower Building, in fact. Here are my recollections from that horrible day.…

Prudence Mahafie Mackintosh had just graduated from UT Austin in May of 1966. She was on her honeymoon in Paris on the day of the…

Ramiro “Ray” Martinez started with the Austin Police Department in 1960. He was watching the noon news when he found out about the UT tower shooting. He called…

“I was there when the shooting started. I watched the events unfold on 21st Street, a block west of the Business Administration building (now McCombs).…

Stan McCormick was in class in Garrison Hall when the UT Tower shooting began. “A ‘John Wayne’ guy came in with an elephant gun and broke…

“Like everyone else who was there that day, I have memories of the events that took place. It was between my junior and senior years…

Mary Ellen McFarlane was a student at UT during the mid 1960s but she was at home in Gonzales, Texas on Aug. 1, 1966. McFarlane’s…

Ann McKinney and her then-husband Don were friends with Charles Whitman and Whitman’s wife Kathy. McKinney and Don were pictured on the roll of film Whitman…

Neal Newberry was 18 years old at the time of the UT Tower shooting. He had just graduated from Austin High School. Newberry was scheduled…

“I was a fifth-year architectural student on campus on August 1, 1966, taking summer courses and working at the University Co-op in the camera department.…

“I was teaching in Chile in August 1966, after having gone there with the student exchange program the summer before. The son of Dr. Frederick…

Dr. Robert Pape was head of the Brackenridge Hospital’s emergency room in August 1966. On the day of the shooting, he was at work. Pape says…

Ron Oliveira was 10 years old at the time of the UT Tower shooting. He was vacationing at his uncle’s home in Brownsville on August…

Jess Preciphs was 18 years old during the UT Tower shooting. He had just graduated from Austin High School and started college courses that summer…

Forrest Preece was a student at UT-Austin in the summer of 1966. On August 1 of that year, he remembers being at a drug store…

“I am a 1966 Architectural Engineering graduate of the UT engineering school. We were the smallest of all of the engineering departments – probably only…

Alice Goodwin Reinarz was a junior at UT-Austin in the summer of 1966. She was working towards a degree in microbiology. Reinarz was in the biology…

“I was indeed there in the Tower on that awful day. I was a graduate student working in the Dean of Admissions Office, which was…

Ricardo Romo was not in Austin in the summer of 1966. A record-holding runner, Romo spent the summer training on the beaches of Southern California.…

“While I was not on campus during the shooting, I was a student teacher/grader in an architectural engineering design class the semester before, and Charles…

Hector Ruiz was originally from Mexico. He moved to Texas as a freshman in 1964. The shooting happened between his sophomore and junior years while…

“On August 1, 1966 I had been studying in the Academic Center (AC) until shortly before noon. I walked over to the English Building to…

At the time of shooting Leonard Schwartz was 22, a law school student. He was married. His wife was a UT student as well. Schwartz was…

Ed Small wasn’t taking classes on the day of the shooting, but working at a farm east of Georgetown. He decided to head to UT…

Robert Smalley was a Texas Ex living in Dallas in the summer of 1966. He had graduated from UT in 1962 and was pursuing a…

John Fox (aka Artly Snuff) was a recent Austin High School graduate taking summer classes at UT-Austin. He was visiting a friend near campus when…

“I am a Class of 1968 graduate of the Business School, member of Delta Tau Delta and President of Silver Spurs (Spring, 1968). When the…

Phyllis Francis Waddle was working for her father in his dental office the summer of 1966. On August 1 of that year she remembers hearing…

Don Walden was a 22-year-old UT-Austin student in August of 1966. He graduated the following May with an English degree. Walden is known as one-half…

His senior year, Shelton Williams shared a political history course with Charles Whitman. Williams nicknamed him “Charlie Fingernails,” because he says Whitman was a compulsive fingernail…

Claire Wilson James was a student at UT-Austin in the summer of 1966. She was eight months pregnant and very much in love with her…

Jim Wilson was a student on campus on August 1, 1966. He was walking near the Tower when the shooting began but had no realization…

Sue McCann Wiseman remembers Aug. 1 as a typical mid-summer day in Austin: hot and humid. She’d grown up in the Texas capital city, and…

Vern Wuensche grew up in McDade, 35 miles outside Austin. He was a business student at the University of Texas at the time of the…