![]() ![]() ![]() And while the documentary chronicles the carnage, it’s the story of the victims, heroes, and survivors that shines. Tower is a powerful, haunting depiction of the clock tower shooting that unfolds as if the audience is experiencing the incident in real-time. Maitland, a filmmaker, channelled his curiosity into Tower, a documentary which opened at New York’s Film Forum on October 12, and will roll out across the country in the coming months. I wanted to understand what happens when a safe place is terrorized and forever changed.” “I was shocked to find out there was no acknowledgment of it, no memorial, no mention of it the campus literature,” Maitland, now 40, tells The Trace.“When I asked, the tour guide told me they weren’t suppose to talk about it. It was the first high-profile mass shooting on a college campus in modern American history - and an event deeply ingrained in the state’s identity. From his outpost, Charles Whitman fatally shot 14 people, including a pregnant woman’s unborn child, before being killed by police. On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman, an engineering student and former marine, holed up in the tower with a rifle. ![]() He was most surprised about what he didn’t learn that day: anything about the terrible history of the 307-foot Beaux-art style clock tower that looms over the state’s flagship school. Twenty years ago, as an incoming freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, Keith Maitland was given a tour of his new campus. ![]()
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