. >> austin, texas, was held in the grip of a terror which began in killing and ended in killing. >> reporter: american television is riveted on a college student former marine charles whitman. the son of an abusive father. he climbs to the top of the university of texas tower, shoots and kills 14 people, wounding 32 others before he is taken down. it is hard to believe, after whitman, it would be another 30 years before a school shooting with such a high death toll. especially since after stream of assaults. law enforcement says 50 rampage school shootings and abc news has estimated at least 79 thwarted plots, more than half of them mentioning columbine. >> columbine was a new kind of shooting.
