Mass shooting at the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas. Student Charles Whitman opens fire from the University of Texas Main Building tower (110 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78705, United States). People running about in the campus to escape the fire. Students hide behind cars. Wounded students being carried away. Police cars in the campus. Rifles and guns discovered from Whitman being displayed. The University of Texas tower shooting killed nearly 15 people.
Texas Longhorns beat the Oklahoma Sooners in Dallas, Texas. Spectators watch the game at the Cotton Bowl. The game begins. Players include: Mike Cotten, Jimmy Saxton. Texas leads 3-0 as the game progresses. Spectators cheer the players. The Longhorns still lead 10-0 at half-time. Texas Longhorns beat the Oklahoma Sooners 24-0.
A football match between Texas Longhorns and Arkansas Razorbacks in Austin, Texas. Texas Longhorn fans form card stunt in the audience. Players during the match. The Texas Longhorns wins the match by seven to three points.
Aftermath of the University of Texas tower mass shooting in Austin, Texas. University of Texas student Charles Whitman fires bullets from the tower of the building killing 15 people and wounding 33. Exterior of the University of Texas Main Building tower (110 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78705, United States). Men kneeling on a street. Cars parked on the street. Men run. A crowd gathers outside the university. Men carrying a casualty away. Cars parked on the street. Rifles and guns on a table. The crowd rushes towards the building.
Reminders of World War 2, in France, 1945. A high bridge of about eight masonry arches with two bombed out, in mountainous region of France. Camera pans right, showing a number of substantial homes scattered across the valley, with tall mountains behind. Scene shifts to a different, flatter landscape, where about a dozen U.S. Waco CG-4A gliders are seen abandoned in a field, in various states of disrepair. Writing in chalk on the side of one glider reads, "Whispering Yoddles, Fort Worth Texas, Little One Alice". There are no D-day stripes on these gliders, indicating they were probably used subsequent to the Normandy invasion, in other operations such as "Bluebird & Dove" in the South of France, in August, 1944.
German civilian Matthias Gierens, a 37 year old railroad worker, is hanged in Rheinbach Germany for the August 15, 1944 murder of a downed American flyer, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss, from Forsythe, Montana. Reuss was the navigator on U.S. Army B-17 bomber #42-31183 which was downed by German aircraft after it attacked the Airdrome at Wiesbaden, Germany. Gierens and three other German civilian men, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, for the murder of the American airman after his parachute landing near Priest, Germany. The trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime. Military police are seen escorting Gierens toward the gallows in a prison yard in Rheinbach. A German Catholic priest performs the rites. U.S military officer reads charges as Gierens is readied for execution (the officer is possibly Lt. Col J.V. Roddy, of San Francisco, who was in charge of the hanging). Trap door opens and Gierens is hung. The U.S. Army executioners were Master Sgt. John C. Woods, a former Texas State executioner, and Staff Sgt. Thomas Robinson, of Bronx, New York. Witnesses present included seven U.S. Lieutenant Colonels and one British officer, a number of Military Police, news correspondents, and photographers.
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