He played baseball in his high school days and participated in football.Ĭharles Whitman got married to Kathleen Leissner in 1962 (Lavergne, Gary M, pg 94). Whitman had been involved in a five year piano lessons class and was active in sports. Despite this, he did not initially show any signs of violent behavior. From a young age, Whitman had a passion for firearms as described by his childhood friends and neighbors. He was an altar boy at the Sacred heart Roman Catholic Church where his mother was a staunch Catholic who insisted that all her children must attend church every other Sunday. At the age of 12 he was achieved the Eagle Scout a historic feat at the time for such a young boy. He is said to have scored 138 in an IQ test just at the tender age of six years (Lavergne, Gary M, pg 12). His intelligence was quite evident at a young age. He possessed admirable qualities and was the kind of child every parent would have wished to have. In his early life, Whitman was a young, energetic and intelligent boy who his father described as “all American boy”. This paper fries to unearth how the society around Charles influenced him to become a mass murderer over a time. Whitman’s mass murder is one of the most remembered as murder accounts in the history of the US. Whitman had two brothers, John and Patrick. Whitman was brought up in a well and stable family where his father was a successful plumbing contractor who took great care of his children and was very strict in his disciplining.
Events leading to this mass killing are at times conflicting especially in making conclusive arguments. The reasons as to why Whitman did this remain more of uncertainties. Charles died on the same day as he succumbed to injuries resulting from the retaliating fire from the police and the civilians who were assisting the police to overcome him.
On the fateful day of August 1 1966, confirmed reports indicate that he killed 15 people and injured some other 31 people during a mass killing spree at the University of Texas Tower (Lavergne, Gary M, pg 4). Charles Joseph Whitman was born on Jto Charles Adolph Whitman and Margaret Whitman.
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