Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what they feel. They become gentle, very mild, extremely nice people, and often show a compulsive need to be perfectionistic," which is one reason why people can always be found to describe a murderer as a "nice" or a "gentle" or a "good" boy, as some described Charles Whitman last week...
Even if a dangerous psychotic reaches the examining room, it is by no means certain that he can be headed off. Most doctors agree that the University of Texas psychiatrist was without fault in taking no action even after Whitman confessed his urge to climb to the tower and kill people several months before the event took place. "Thousands of people?and I mean literally thousands," says University of Chicago Psychiatrist Robert S. Daniels, "talk to doctors about having such feelings. Nearly all of them are just talking." Deciding which patients mean it is still more art than science. Doctors...
When Charles Whitman began his 96-minute reign of death last week, it was 11:48 a.m. Within five minutes, Austin's TV and radio station KTBC aired the first bulletin on what turned out to be the biggest Texas news story since the Kennedy assassination...
...Robert Heard, shot in the left shoulder.) Meanwhile the story was prompting calls to KTBC from as far away as Canada requesting brief radio reports. With incredible patience, station staffers provided 250 different such "line feeds." It never hindered their own coverage. Police identified the dead Whitman at 1:24; a KTBC reporter had the news...
Almost without exception, other Austin newsmen had also done well. Ten minutes after the first report, the afternoon Statesman had seven reporters on the University of Texas campus, put an issue on the streets by 2:45 with a full rundown from start to Whitman's finish. Next day the Statesman's morning partner, the American, devoted five pages to the story...