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Previously on this season of darkness.

All of a sudden I felt like I had stepped on like I was being electrocuted.

We have a report of shooting at the University of Texas Tower.

I got an ambulance at the 24th and real brand.

What do you need?

I need him at 23-10, go on loop.

Somebody is shooting from the tower, which had the immediate effect of making us all run to the

windows and see what was happening.

And that was when we saw people lying on the mall.

Monday, I met Drummond for lunch and he was coming back from a someplace I hadn't eaten.

In the summer of 1966 Bob Higgly was working for University of Texas's student body president Cliff Drummond.

Cliff had sent him to meetings in his place, and Bob had planned to catch him up over lunch.

He came in and was stoked up. Sounds to me like there's

somebody up in the tower. They're telling me there's somebody up in the tower.

And he said, let's go out and see what's happening. So we went down the back stairs to the Student Union building.

Neil Spels's K-T-BeeC radio broadcast

had alerted most Austinites about the campus shooting.

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