Editing University of Texas at Austin (section)

===1966 shooting===
[[File:UT-Tower-in-Orange.jpg|thumb|[[Main Building (University of Texas at Austin)|The Tower]], completed in 1937, stands 307 ft (94 m) tall and dons [[Main Building (University of Texas at Austin)#Lighting|different colors of lighting on special occasions.]]]]
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On August 1, 1966, Texas student [[Charles Whitman]] barricaded the observation deck in the tower of the Main Building. Armed with multiple firearms, he killed 14 people on campus, 11 from the observation deck and below the clocks on the tower, and three more in the tower, as well as wounding two others inside the observation deck. The massacre ended when Whitman was shot and killed by police after they breached the tower.

After the Whitman event, the observation deck was closed until 1968 and then closed again in 1975 following a series of suicide jumps during the 1970s. In 1999, after installation of security fencing and other safety precautions, the tower observation deck reopened to the public. There is a turtle pond park near the tower dedicated to those affected by the tragedy.

The first [[Presidential library system|presidential library]] on a university campus was dedicated on May 22, 1971, with former [[Lyndon B. Johnson|President Johnson]], [[Lady Bird Johnson]] and then-President [[Richard Nixon]] in attendance. Constructed on the eastern side of the main campus, the [[Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum]] is one of 13 presidential libraries administered by the [[National Archives and Records Administration]].

A statue of [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] was unveiled on campus in 1999 and subsequently vandalized.<ref name="deconstructingracismslattery">{{cite journal |last=Slattery |first=Patrick |date=2006 |title=Deconstructing Racism One Statue at a Time: Visual Culture Wars at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin |journal=Visual Arts Research |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=28–31 |jstor=20715415}}</ref> By 2004, John Butler, a professor at the [[McCombs School of Business]] suggested moving it to [[Morehouse College]], a historically black college, "a place where he is loved".<ref name="deconstructingracismslattery" />