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Jessica Cadena Instructor Farrington5 English 102 2 November 2011 Charles Whitman Charles Joseph Whitman was born June 24, 1941 and died August 1, 1966. He was shot by a police officer on the twenty-eighth floor of the University of Texas tower (Charles Whitman). This event came to be known as the Texas Tower Massacre. Before the Massacre Charles Whitman was seen as an ordinary man, then one day he murdered his mother, wife and sixteen civilians. As a child Charles and his two younger brothers were raised in Lake Worth Florida (Charles Whitman). The Whitman’s were an upper middle class family, where Charles Senior had a successful plumbing business which provided well for his family (Charles Whitman). At the age of six Charles scored a 138 on a IQ Test. His parents, teachers and preacher all knew young Charles was an intelligent young man and destine to do great things. Charles even took five years of piano lessons and excelled remarkably quick making his mother and piano teacher immensely proud. Then at the age of twelve Charles was the youngest boy to achieve Eagle Scout (Lavergne 212). Despite Charles perfection as a child nothing was good enough for his father. Later when he was nineteen, Charles came home drunk one night and his father in a rage beat him and threw him into the family
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swimming pool where he almost drowned (Charles Whitman). It was after that incident that Charles joined the Marines with the approval of his mother and disapproval of his father. On July 6, 1959 he enlisted in the Marines. It was reported that his father called “some branch of Federal Government to have Charles enlistment canceled (Charles Whitman).” Charles was an outstanding marine. He was promoted to Lance Corporal and was looked at as a role model for other marines. After he was dismissed he went to school at the University of Texas in Austin on a scholarship from the United States Marine Corps in September of 1961(Massacre and Myth)....
