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UT Tower Shooting Memorial

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On August 1, 1966, a tragedy at The University of Texas at Austin took the lives of Thomas Aquinas Ashton, Dr. Robert H. Boyer, Thomas Frederick Eckman, Mark Jerome Gabour, Karen Joan Griffith, David H. Gunby, Thomas Ray Karr, Marguerite Gabour Lamport, Claudia Rutt, Roy Dell Schmidt, Paul Bolton Sonntag, Officer Billy Paul Speed, Edna Elizabeth Rose Townsley, Harry Walchuk, Kathleen Leissner Whitman, Margaret Hodges Whitman, Baby Boy Wilson, and countless others were wounded or immeasurably affected.
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