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title: "In another college campus tragedy, Charles Whitman killed 13 people in a sniper attack while at the top of a 27 story observation tower on August 1st, 1966. At what university did this shooting take place?"  
description: "In another college campus tragedy, Charles Whitman killed 13 people in a sniper attack while at the top of a 27 story observation tower on August 1st, 1966. At what university did this shooting take place?"  
author: "agustina johnson"  
published: 2018-03-11  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39961/in-another-college-campus-tragedy-charles-whitman-killed-13-people-in-a-sniper-attack-while-at-the-top-of-a-27-story-observation-tower-on-august-1st-1966-at-what-university-did-this-shooting-take-place  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# In another college campus tragedy, Charles Whitman killed 13 people in a sniper attack while at the top of a 27 story observation tower on August 1st, 1966. At what university did this shooting take place?

In another [college campus](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39960/on-may-4th-1970-national-guard-troops-opened-fire-on-college-students-protesting-president-nixon-s-invasion-of-cambodia-on-what-college-campus-did-this-shooting-take-place) tragedy, Charles Whitman killed 13 people in a sniper attack while at the top of a 27 [story](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/338793/building-visibility-through-smart-storytelling) [observation tower](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32673/if-you-were-in-the-observation-tower-at-clingmans-dome-where-would-you-be) on August 1st, 1966. At what [university](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62167/which-state-government-sets-up-a-skill-university-with-a-cost-of-850-crores) did this shooting take place?\
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