40th Anniversary of the UT-Austin Massacre

[TexasStooge]

Today marks the 40th Anniversary of the University of Texas at Austin shootings that has left 17 people dead and 31 injured.
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40 years later, officer recounts tower bloodshed

He helped take down Whitman after deadly UT shootings

AUSTIN, Texas (DallasNews.com/AP) – Police officer Ramiro Martinez wasn't supposed to be at work until 3 p.m., but when he heard the noon television news of trouble at the University of Texas, he figured his colleagues at the scene could use some help.

He called in from home. His instructions were to go to the campus and work traffic, keeping people away from the area around the landmark 307-foot University of Texas Tower.

A gunman was on the 28th-floor observation deck and shooting people on the streets, 231 feet below. Several people already had been hit.

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So, where were you at the time of this horrific event?

I wasn't born yet at the time.

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I wasn't born yet.

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I was 3 and living in Cincinnati, OH.

Remember seeing a movie about that day...years later.