Reporter recounts how two police officers took down the UT Austin sniper

The Washington Post 2016-07-31

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Former KTBC reporter Neal Spelce covered live on television the sniper shooting on the University of Texas at Austin campus on August 1, 1966. Spelce takes The Post up the clock tower where Charles Whitman carried out his rampage.
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