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Higher Education clock tower commands respect #239037479
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The University of Texasââ¬â¢ clock tower is a Beaux Art-style tower completed in 1937. It stands at 307 feet tall in Austin, TX and and the fourth highest college clocktower in the world. The clockââ¬â¢s four faces measure 12 feet across. Sadly, a mass shooting took place here in 1966, when Charles Whitman shut himself in on the observation deck with a rifle and killed 14 people and wounded 31 others. Police eventually killed Whitman. Bullet holes still mark the towerââ¬â¢s facade.
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