If mass school shootings seem commonplace in 2016, they were anything but in 1966, when a student killed 17 people and injured 31 at the University of Texas-Austin. It remained the first and deadliest campus massacre in the United States until the Virginia Tech carnage in 2007. Fifty years later, the new documentary "TOWER," which premiered at South by Southwest on Sunday, blends archival footage and rotoscope animation (think "A Scanner Darkly") to re-create the harrowing 96-minute standoff f...
'TOWER' Recalls A Time When Mass School Shootings Weren't So Routine
The Huffington Post - 15 Mar 2016 20:51
If mass school shootings seem commonplace in 2016, they were anything but in 1966, when a student killed 17 people and injured 31 at the University of Texas-Austin. It remained the first and deadliest campus massacre in the United States until the Virginia Tech carnage in 2007. Fifty years later, the new documentary "TOWER," which premiered at South by Southwest on Sunday, blends archival footage and rotoscope animation (think "A Scanner Darkly") to re-create the harrowing 96-minute standoff f...
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