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Walter Cronkite:
The horror of these, the sick among us, must be found in The horror of our hyper-civilization. A strange pandering to violence, a disrespect for life, fostered in part by governments which, in pursuit of the doctrine of self-defense, teach their youth to kill and to maim. A society in which the most popular newspaper cartoon strips, television programs, and movies are those that can invent new means of perpetrating bodily harm. A people who somehow can remain silent while their own civilization seems to crumble under the force of the caveman's philosophy - that might makes right. It seems likely that Charles Joseph Whitman's crime was society's crime
The horror of these, the sick among us, must be found in The horror of our hyper-civilization. A strange pandering to violence, a disrespect for life, fostered in part by governments which, in pursuit of the doctrine of self-defense, teach their youth to kill and to maim. A society in which the most popular newspaper cartoon strips, television programs, and movies are those that can invent new means of perpetrating bodily harm. A people who somehow can remain silent while their own civilization seems to crumble under the force of the caveman's philosophy - that might makes right. It seems likely that Charles Joseph Whitman's crime was society's crime
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The horror of these the sick among us
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must be found in the horror of our hyper civilization
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A strange pandering to violence a disrespect for life
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fostered in part by governments which
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in pursuit of the doctrine of self defense
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teach their youth to kill and to maim
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A society in which the most popular
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newspaper cartoon strips television programs
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and movies are those that can invent
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new means of perpetrating bodily harm
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A people who somehow can remain silent
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while their own civilization seems to crumble
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under the force of the caveman's philosophy
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That might makes right
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It seems likely that Charles Joseph Whitman's crime
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was society's crime
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Movie Summary
Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.