Primer: Charles Whitman to Today
The Legacy of the Warren Commission
Charles Joseph Whitman was the Marine veteran who became known as the “Texas Tower Sniper” on August 1, 1966, when he went to the 28th-floor clock tower observation deck of the University of Texas Main Building and fired at random people for 96 minutes, killing and wounding dozens before he was shot dead by Austin law enforcement. The mass murder was officially deemed an open and shut case caused by an alleged brain tumor.
The key to the Whitman case is the “blue ribbon” commission set up by Governor John B. Connally to end legitimate inquiry about Whitman’s mental state and his visits to Waco — home of MKULTRA at Baylor University — as well as other fingerprints of intelligence.
Issued only two years after the Warren Report on the assassination of President Kennedy and wounding of Governor Connally, the “Texas Governor’s Fact-Finding Committee Report on the Charles J. Whitman Catastrophe” created a Mandela Effect that still exists: belief in Whitman’s nonexistent brain tumor.
David Eagleman gives the neurobiology behind it in episode two of his documentary, The Brain. Ironically, he exposes one mistaken narrative of his own by implying that Charles Whitman’s tumor caused his mass murder, contrary to all the pathological evidence. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qf3ak
The place to start is the ongoing mystery of Whitman’s missing brain — a winding trail from the autopsy pathologist to the University of Texas to San Antonio. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/brain-collection-at-the-university-of-texas-at-austin
The San Antonio connection:
https://www.inquisitr.com/1653071/missing-brains-found-in-texas-but-where-is-charles-whitmans/
‘After my book came out, I met two doctors who didn’t believe he had a brain tumor at all,’ Lavergne said.
https://thedailytexan.com/2016/07/30/experts-still-disagree-on-role-of-tower-shooters-brain-tumor/
Whitman’s fingerprints of intelligence:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/signofthetimes/8-1-66-u-of-texas-austin-tower-sniper-t1399.html
Very interesting. However, the Warren Commission was sold as a “Blue Ribbon” but in reality was nothing more than a public relations exercise designed to sell the lone gunman nonsense. In hindsight it was nothing short of pathetic.
Jules Emig was a prof of mine at Univ of North Dakota. One day in about 1968 he described his experience when a student at U Tx. He worked in the library which was the Texas Tower. The morning of the shooting he & others working there saw a man dragging a wooden box through the lobby & up the stairs leading to the observation deck. They thought he was a maintainance person. When the shooting started they made a plan to stop him when he came down. Jules Emig got up on a balcony above the doorway leading up the stairway & planned on jumping on the shooter if he came down. Fast forward to today. When visiting the Tx campus I went into the tower & asked about the tour up the tower & if they mentioned the shooting to tourists. The guy selling the tour tics said it was a family tour so, no, they don’t mention the shooting.