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...fact that Charles Whitman [Aug. 12] was psychotic and is now dead is unimportant to the unaccountable, unbalanced, whacked-up bunch of people who will strive to perpetrate any crime for the sake of the publicity, as you well know. How can you elevate such a person to that extent? Charles Whitman may be "news"-but isn't there someone in this country who deserved enough commendation last week to have appeared on your cover? You could always resort to a picture of Niagara Falls...
...Whitman told his psychiatrist he had a desire to shoot people from high places. That nothing was done in the light of this threat I consider to be a gross moral, if not professional, lapse on the part of the psychiatrist. It is criminal that this boy could have seen a psychiatrist and not have had basic tests done, such as an encephalogram, which could have spotted the cause of his suffering and led to control of his antisocial behavior...
...these times of euphemism-of a softening of language as soft as the brains of those who are softening it-let us not forget that Whitman was a bully, a pervert and a coward. He was a pervert in that he enjoyed murdering more than not murdering. He was a coward in that he fled his problems through death-and had not the courage to take his own life, but forced the responsibility on another...
...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...