Director Keith Maitland tells the story using animation spliced with news photographs and footage, radio clips and testimonials provided chiefly by eight survivors. Among them is Spelce, then news director for KTBC-TV, who soon after that initial report was in a station vehicle, broadcasting on radio as he drove toward the sniper.
There was no police tape marking anything off. The documentary has begun opening in theaters nationally, five decades after an attack in which Whitman, then 25, killed 13 people and wounded nearly three dozen others. He had killed his wife and mother prior to heading to the tower, one victim died a week later and medical examiners eventually attributed a 17th death to Whitman in Rather than focusing on the sniper, though, the documentary explores what it was like on the ground during the mayhem.
Men, women and a newspaper delivery boy were shot without warning, before they even knew to be afraid -- and some survived. Some scrambled for any cover they could find in the nearly degree heat. Police and ordinary Texans would eventually rush to get their own guns and fire back, in vain, at Whitman from the ground.
The sniper's face doesn't appear in animation; only his legs are shown after he's killed by police and a store manager who made their way to the top of the clock tower. Whitman's name isn't mentioned until more than hour into the film. When the shooting started, a TV station near to the clock tower rolled a camera close -- some say it was onto a balcony, others remember it as by an open window. The footage, which Maitland said hadn't been previously accessed since the s, appears in the documentary and provides the much of the visceral, seemingly endless sounds of booming gunfire throughout it.
Flowers, who lives in West Memphis, Arkansas, was "shocked" to learn of the sale. It was the deadliest shooting by a single gunman until , when a student at Virginia Tech shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 more.
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Our team, our mission, our partners, and more. Plus: How to contact us. We report stories that would go untold. Generous readers sustain our work. Mass Shooting. For some members of the campus community, this weekend's highly publicized demonstration was a dramatic reminder of the damage a real gunman can do. Weaving through a scrum of media, the gun advocates descended on the street below, and paraded through a bustle of students in the midst of the exam-season crunch.
After a short lunch break, they took their positions for a new and provocative display of gun-rights activism: the mock mass shooting. After the short performance, the group traced chalk outlines around the bodies on the sidewalk outside Duren Hall, a dormitory, and left the area smeared with ketchup, symbolizing blood.
Media feasted on the event — and its flatulent opposition — but for some members of the UT community, it brought back memories of the damage a real gunman can do. In the nearly two hours that passed before police neutralized Charles Whitman, 48 people were injured or killed.
And there were already some people lying out on the south mall, who may or may not have been shot. Friedman has another view.
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