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A composite image: At left, the cover of Unheard Witness shows a grainy photo of Kathy Leissner Whitman smiling, with Charles Whitman, the tower sniper, just out of view with his arm on her shoulder. To the right, a low angle view of the UT Clock Tower with trees in the foreground at the University of Texas at Austin, under a partly cloudy blue sky.

The Tower Sniper’s Wife

A new book from UT Press provides a troubling twist on the vow “until death do us part.”

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