It happened 40 years ago today.
The shooting spree by Charles Whitman, from atop a tower on the University of Texas campus in Austin, TX, which this movie is a dramatization of, took place on Monday, August 1, 1966, which was 40 years ago today. My parents were married on Saturday, July 31, 1965 in York, SC, then moved to Charleston, SC, and were living there when this happened, the day after their first anniversary. It was just over a year and a half before I was born (March 5, 1968), and just under three years before they sold that house and we moved to Hickory Grove, SC (in the upstate). I saw this movie for the first time on TV one night in the late 1970s with my father, and he made no mention of this, but I then taped it in the late 1980s and watched it some more after that, and one night in 1993 I tried to get my mother to watch it, but she did not want to, but did in fact remember when it had happened, and hearing about it in Charleston then, and was able to recall some details of it. It was certainly tragic, but does anyone on here that is old enough remember when this did happen (as it has been 40 years now)? If so please respond.
"I happen to be a vegetarian". Lex, from Jurrasic Park