The Texas Tower Sniper
The Terrifying True Story of Charles Whitman
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Charles Whitman, Jr. was born and raised with his two younger brothers in a nice neighborhood in the suburbs of Lake Worth, Florida. From the outside, the Whitmans appeared to be living the American dream but within the household, lay a much darker reality. Charles Whitman, Sr. made sure his family wanted for nothing, and in return, he demanded perfection. Lethargy or failure were unacceptable and resulted in violence.
Growing up under the brutal rule of Charles, Sr. took its toll on Charles, Jr. He could not live up to the impossible expectations set by his father, nor could he accept his failures.
Charles, Jr. struggled to control his inner thoughts and temper, and his life started to unravel. He needed to put an end to his trajectory. He wasn’t going to slide into mediocrity. He wouldn’t go silently into suicide and oblivion. The world needed to know his name and what he was truly capable of, for the rest of time.
The Texas Tower Sniper is a chilling account of one of the largest campus shootings in American history. Ryan Green’s riveting narrative draws the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims and has all the elements of a classic thriller.
Caution: This book contains descriptive accounts of abuse and violence. If you are especially sensitive to this material, it might be advisable not to listen to it.
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- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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You Are Worth It is a memoir about the War in Afghanistan and Kyle’s heroics, yes, but it also is a manual for living. Organized around the credos that have guided Kyle’s life (from “Don’t Hide Your Scars” to “Call Your Mom”), the book encourages us to become our best selves in the time we've been given on earth.
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Beautiful and emotionally draining
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By: Kyle Carpenter, and others
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Point of Impact
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He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, 20 years later, all Bob Lee Swagger wants is to be left alone. But a shadowy military organization seduces him into one last mission for his country - unaware until too late that the game is rigged. The assassination plot is executed to perfection until Bob Lee Swagger, alleged lone gunman, comes out of the operation alive, the target of a nationwide manhunt, with his only allies a woman he just met and a discredited FBI agent.
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Beau Bridges ruined it for me...
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One Day
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- By: Gene Weingarten
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On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - was Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, and much more....
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I'm giving this book more credit for its concept
- By J. F. Boyd on 12-24-19
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Trident
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- Narrated by: Erik Bergmann
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Decorated Navy SEAL Lieutenant Jason Redman served his country courageously and with distinction in Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces. But his journey was not without its supreme challenges. He was critically wounded in 2007 when he was struck by machine-gun fire at point blank range. During his intense recovery period, Redman posted a sign on his door, warning all who entered not to "feel sorry for [his] wounds."
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SEALS and Leadership
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By: Jason Redman, and others
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Killing Zone
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Born ‘a ragged-arsed kid from the backstreets of Glasgow’, McCallion joined the Paras to escape a miserable home life and find the family he longed for. After six tense tours in Ulster, McCallion gave up everything to move to South Africa in the hope of qualifying for the highly elite South African Special Forces. Having succeeded in joining the Recces, McCallion was involved in plots to assassinate Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo.
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What a Life
- By J.Brock on 10-01-21
By: Harry McCallion
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Children Under Fire
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- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
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In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection - both were traumatized by gun violence. Ava’s best friend had been killed in a campus shooting at her elementary school, and Tyshaun’s father had been shot to death outside of the boy’s elementary school. Ava’s and Tyshaun’s stories are extraordinary, but not unique.
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What about the kids that are left behind?
- By Denise on 04-11-21
By: John Woodrow Cox
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People Kill People
- By: Ellen Hopkins
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
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People kill people. Guns just make it easier. A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse, bought by a teenager for needed protection. But which was it? Each has the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of a white supremacist youth organization? Daniel, who fears retaliation because of his race, who possessively clings to Grace, the love of his life? Or Noelle, who lost everything after a devastating accident, and has sunk quietly into depression?
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Ellen You've done it again!
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Blaze of Light
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- By: Marcus Brotherton
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
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After dawn the siege began. It was April 1, 1970, and Army Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch knew the odds were stacked against their survival. Some 10,000 enemy soldiers sought to obliterate the 12 American Special Forces troops and 400 indigenous fighters who stood fast to defend 2,300 women and children inside the village of Dak Seang. For his valor and selflessness during the ruthless siege, Beikirch would be awarded a Medal of Honor, the nation's highest and most prestigious military decoration.
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Hope for the future
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Night Stalker
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After Special Agent Adam Whitfield’s ex-wife is nearly killed when she stops an abduction, the serial killer that Adam’s been hunting turns his focus on Charlotte Murray for getting in his way. Now, as the Night Stalker closes in, Adam has two missions: bring the murderer to justice and save Charlotte - because failure isn’t an option.
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Christian faith throughout story
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Mission to Protect
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- By: Terri Reed
- Narrated by: Angie Hickman
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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When the Red Rose Killer leaves his calling card for Staff Sergeant Felicity Monroe, she knows exactly what that means-she's on his revenge list. Her boss, Master Sergeant Westley James, and K-9 German shepherd Dakota become her guardians, but they'll have to act fast to escape the man who wants her dead.
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Lots of Christian Emphasis
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All Secure
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- Narrated by: Tom Satterly
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As a senior non-commissioned officer of Delta Force, the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the US military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country's most fearsome enemies. Tom is a legend even among other Tier One special operators. Yet the enemy that cost him three marriages, and ruined his health physically and psychologically, existed in his brain. Told through Satterly's firsthand experiences, it also weaves in the reasons for his career-long battle against the most insidious enemy of all: post-traumatic stress.
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- One of those books that truly make a difference
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By: Tom Satterly, and others
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- Douglas
- 11-13-21
Stunning
Captures the deep complexity and travesty of this horrible combination of awful environment and compromised neurology. An American tragedy.
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- Amanda Kliebert
- 06-10-20
Great book
I loved it. I read the book and listened to the Audible. I love being able to listen to the story while doing other things. I can't wait for more.
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- Neesie315
- 05-30-20
Terrifyingly true
Ryan Green has written another insightful true crime book, this time about the Texas Tower Sniper, Charles Whitman. Whitman is probably the first mass shooter of his type and many others have emulated him.
Having visited the Tower on the University of Texas campus many times, hearing the methodical, calculated way that Whitman planned to kill so many from this beautiful vantage point was especially poignant.
Mr. Green does an excellent job in weaving together facts with enough speculation to make it easier for the listener/reader to get a feel for the crime. He manages to make the perpetrator more human by adding in personal touches. Most true crime books tend to be fairly clinical in their tales and I like the fact that Mr. Green adds his own spin on his true crime books. Also, he does not romanticize the perpetrator in any way, even when the reader can see the humanity in their twisted psyche.
The narrator, Steve White, does an excellent job, with perfect pacing and careful pronunciation throughout the book. HIs performance adds a lot to an already excellent book.
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- txdoc
- 05-02-20
Sad and terrifying...
In what is, in my opinion, Ryan Green’s best work yet, the life and horrifying crimes of Charles Whitman are explored. From his childhood spent trying, yet never quite managing, to gain the approval of his domineering and abusive father to his service as a marine and, ultimately, to his time as a young husband and college student, the life of Charles Whitman was never what people were led to believe. The Whitman family made every effort to appear as the quintessential upper middle-class family to be admired and emulated but this was only a shiny façade concealing a dark truth. This fascinating book details the appalling physical and psychological abuse he endured which left permanent scars on his body and his mind. It chronicles both the remarkable achievements and the faltering steps that led a promising and intellectually gifted young man down a dark path of skewed reality, self-loathing, and desperation until he lost all concept of empathy and humanity. Such a vivid picture of his life is painted that it plays out in the mind as clearly as watching it on the big screen. The myriad factors contributing to Charles’ ultimate downward spiral are presented for consideration and, while it is impossible to be certain exactly what happens in the mind of a killer, Charles left many notes and clues which afforded reasonable and cogent conjecture into his thought processes concerning the murder of his beloved family and the UT Austin Tower shootings. This is an absolute must-read/must-listen for all students of abnormal psychology and for anyone who enjoys the true crime genre.
Also of note is the wonderful job the narrator, Steve White, did with the reading of this book. He is one of those narrators, in my opinion, that keeps the flow of the story going smoothly and is able to hold the interest of his listeners from start to finish.
I was provided with an audio copy of this book by the author but I also chose to purchase a copy and I am voluntarily offering my honest and unbiased review.
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- Ashley Hedden
- 07-03-22
Great Read
The Texas Tower Sniper: The Terrifying True Story of Charles Whitman was a great true crime read by Ryan Green. Charles Whitman Jr was born and raised in Lake Worth, Florida. It seemed on the outside that they were living the American dream, but inside the house was much different. His father gave the family everything they wanted but also demanded perfection in return. The violence of his upbringing took its toll on Charles Jr. He struggled to control his inner thoughts and temper. This is the chilling account of one of the largest campus shootings in American History. I enjoyed reading this true crime story and can't wait to read more by the author.
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- Sena Schneider
- 05-07-20
The Man Who Stretched Until He Snapped!
Charles Whitman was held to ultra-high standards when he was a child. His abusive father would beat him for not meeting said standards. This created a serious flaw, as he was taught to ignore when he had far too many responsibilities to handle. When he was failing to handle them all, he decided to leave this world doing the only thing he ever thought he was good at, marksmanship. This lead to one of the most gruesome massacres in the 20th century.
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- Cheryl
- 05-19-20
This may be Ryan Green's best book yet...
I really enjoyed The Texas Tower Sniper. It was one of those books that when I had to hit pause and walk away, I would instantly start planning when I could listen to more, I have read other Ryan Green books, but this was my favorite so far!
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- William W. Taylor
- 08-28-24
Not great.
Book lacks the detail of a documentary or true crime. Reads more like a novel. Takes liberty with the shooters thoughts during the incident.
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- Red
- 02-22-22
ridiculous
I read another book about Whitman that was much better than this one. Also I found the fact that he tells us what Whitman was thinking through out the book. How does he know? Whitman died at the scene without ever giving an interview, so how does he know what Whitman was thinking? The whole premise is ridiculous.
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