At the tender age of twelve, Charles Whitman of Florida became one of the youngest Boy Scouts ever to attain the rank of Eagle Scout.
But Whitman is principally known for a completely different achievement. On the first of August in 1966 he ascended the clock tower at the University of Texas campus and shot people at random from its observation deck. It was ninety minutes before two police officers were able to get into the tower to subdue him, shooting him when he turned his gun on them.
He killed fifteen people and injured 32 others. The observation deck of the UT Austin campus remains closed to this day.
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