The UT Tower shooting of 1966 | The Backstory

This week marks 56 years since one of the worst mass murders in the U.S. The UT Tower shooting happened during a tumultuous summer in America's history.
STORY: www.kvue.com/a...
Subscribe to our channel: www.youtube.co...
KVUE is Austin's ABC affiliate station, and has been delivering local news for Central Texans since 1971. Today it is owned by TEGNA, Inc., which reaches approximately one-third of all television households in America. www.kvue.com

[@sbaker4920]

My father was on campus at the time of the shooting, under the trees. My sisters and I were watching on TV as it happened.

[@lfeb]

I know lots of people who where there and it traumatized them for life.

[@Lisa-di1wi]

I was only 8 years old that summer. To me, the summer of '66 was just another ordinary summer for me here in the Philadelphia area

[@lfeb]

If you were in Philly, why comment?

[@vincentbyrd5350]

I'm 30 and from philly while thinking the same exact thing 😂 🤔

[@julianf.wheeler3665]

And now in Prague. Sad.

[@AugustMedia]

Back then? You could trust people back then, or so I heard.

[@philippesauvie639]

REMAIN TERRIFIED
QUESTION NOTHING
STAY HOME
☠️

[@rosierose1917]

Wow the people who ran into the line of fire to rescue the people down

[@dustinbasham393]

Now they would just stand there and live stream it

[@wptx2827]

1966 was mostly peaceful

[@dexter2178]

💀

[@janf5193]

Unless you were a young soldier in Vietnam 😢

[@firstlast8258]

​@@janf5193gawd bless Murica 🤡🖕

[@David-yw2lv]

My brother went to school with Bob Buckalew.

[@tonybeard8983]

Camp Drinking toxic water exposure, migraine etc.

[@George-tm6or]

Attack on terror

[@eric-hj8pn]

mondial 2026

[@jwilsonAvalon]

For me it was a lot more, since my siter Claire was the first person shot outside the tower. She laid there for an hour in the hot August sun while lover Tom and her and unborn baby died. . But she survived.