Topic: 1966

The conversation focuses on the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting. Mike Hanson shares a newspaper clipping featuring his father, who was an ambulance driver during the event, and they discuss how armed citizens helped pin down the shooter, Charles Whitman.

The hosts read from a 1966 newspaper account of the UT tower shooting, noting the death toll and the eventual killing of Charles Whitman by police. Hanson then transitions into a story about his grandfather's fatal stress caused by a legal dispute with the City of Austin over creek drainage fees.