Texas tower shootings - KLRN live - part 2/3

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Uploaded by on Jul 31, 2006

Charles Whitman atop the University of Texas tower, August 1 1966. I believe this footage to be the FIRST TIME a "breaking news" event of this type was carried live on television. KLRN (now KLRU) tv was next door and pointed a camera out the window.

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  • The voice is Gordon Smith. He later did weather at KTVV (now KXAN) in the 70s and 80s and KTBC throughout the 90s and the early 00s. He was known for using the phrase "church of your choice" during weekend weather forecasts.

    The studios are on 26th(Dean Keaton). The tower is four blocks to the south.

    KLRN channel 9 was the educational station for both the Austin and San Antonio markets.

  • @dgravois

    Is that Gordon Smith? I don't think so, but I.m not sure.

  • bizrec, where did you get this video? There were no VCR's back then. Did you get this from KLRN or the Natl Archives or something? Thanks for posting.

  • Got it out of the trash at the Austin tv station I worked at. It was not the original copy just a beta dub that I recopied.

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  • i went up there like a year ago...and the square hole(where he was shooting from) are to drain water when it rains...when i looked through the hole, I could see EVERYTHING

  • Man, that is awesome that you snagged this!  One of the most fascinating on YouTube WITHOUT A DOUBT.

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  • What is really eerie is watching the clock move.

  • and for the record Whitman was a MUCH better shot then Oswald.

  • how quick of a shot is he. I seriously would have dropped a grenade down there from either a helicopter or plane. Wait...

    rather release a pack of 10-15 hyenas from the Austin zoo after evacuating the building (somehow). Let the animals take care of animal.

  • sounds like the announcer was half asleep when he read this

  • at 1:17 you can see him blocking the light of that whole

  • Man that was terrible but i do find this rather fascinating

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