by joscottcoe | Aug 1, 2021 | women's history
UT Austin Memorial, 50th Anniversary. 1 August 2016 (photo by Justin Scott-Coe) For all the folks who survived this horrible day on the UT Austin campus, and to those who did not make it through to August 2–including two women, Kathleen and Margaret, who were...
by joscottcoe | Aug 10, 2016 | Culture, history, Uncategorized, writing
A week ago today, the clock at the top of Austin’s UT Tower restarted after being frozen for a full 24-hours, from 11:48 PM on August 1. After one night of darkness, the tower lights were also turned back on. It was just one clock, and only one day, but it was...
by joscottcoe | Apr 30, 2016 | Culture, history, women's history
On August 1, 1966, the world heard Charles Whitman’s gunshots as he shot and killed people he didn’t know from the top of the tower at UT Austin. It was the first mass shooting captured on television in the heart of a college campus...
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