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Charles Whitman
A widely released image, of
Charles Whitman on a family vacation holding two rifles.
Charles with his father.
The Whitman family,
Charles in the back row.
Charles Whitman as marine.
Photo of Charles
Whitman from the 1963 Cactus,
the student yearbook of the University of Texas.
Charles Whitman in an
uncharacteristically relaxed moment at home.
Friends knew Whitman as
driven but without focus.
(Austin
Police Department Files)
The wedding of Kathy
Leissner and Charles Whitman.
Charles Whitman the day of his
wedding.
Charles Whitman sits
on the porch of the home at 906 W. Jewell St. he shared with his
wife, Kathleen, and their dog, Schocie. In the letter he left after
stabbing Kathleen to death, Whitman asked that Schocie be given to
Kathleen's parents because she cared so for the dog.
(Austin Police Department Files)
Asleep on his couch
with Schocie. Friends seldom found Whitman relaxed until the night
of July 31, when — in a letter he left at home for authorities — he
had already made up his mind to kill his wife.
(Austin Police Department Files)
Whitman at Barton
Springs with an unidentified child. For reasons no one has been able
to explain, Whitman asked whomever found the body of his wife to
develop rolls of film from which this picture was developed. The
rolls contained nothing more than Whitman, family and friends
relaxing at Barton Springs and visiting the Alamo.
(Austin Police Department Files)
Kathleen Whitman
posing in front of the Alamo. In his diaries, Whitman professed to
adore his wife, but he admitted abusing her, physically and
emotionally.
(Austin Police Department Files)
One of the photos
Charles Whitman left on two rolls of film shows him and his wife,
Kathleen, as he apparently wanted them to be seen: a happy couple
enjoying a visit to the Alamo in San Antonio.
(Austin Police Department Files)
Only two weeks before he
murdered her, Charles Whitman posed for this picture with his
wife Kathy during a trip to the historic Alamo in San Antonio.
The trip occurred during a visit by Charles' younger brother,
John Michael. While there he climbed the Alamo Monument for a
picture, probably taken by John. These and other pictures from
Charles Whitman's cameras are reproduced in A Sniper in the
Tower. (Austin Police Department Files)
Charles Whitman posed for this picture during a trip to the historic Alamo
in San Antonio.
Picnicking during a
day of boating. Whitman had boasted of his Marine-carved physique
and criticized his wife's heavy thighs, but he had put on
considerable weight in the summer before the Tower shootings.
(Austin Police Department Files)
Whitman reaching for a
bottle of beer on a boat outing, perhaps on Lake Austin. This was a
photograph from one of the two rolls of film he asked authorities to
develop after his death.
(Austin Police Department Files)
Charles Whitman liked
to write or type self-help notes to himself. This is a handwritten
version of a saying he also had typed on a page dated the day he
killed his mother, wife and then 14 strangers passing by the
University of Texas Tower.
(Austin Police Department Files)
Charles Whitman's
Austin Public Library card.
Charles Whitman's
diary, February - March 1964.
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