Descriptive Summary
Austin American-Statesman
Austin
American-Statesman Pulitzer Prize Nomination Scrapbook
1966-1977
Materials are written in English.
1 in.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin
Newspaper and magazine clippings
comprise the Austin
American-Statesman Pulitzer Prize Nomination Scrapbook, 1966-1977,
documenting the 1966 sniper shootings on the University of Texas at Austin (UT)
campus.
Biographical Note
Founded in 1871 as the
Democratic Statesman, the
Austin, Texas, newspaper became the Austin Statesman
in 1904 after buying several smaller publications. Owned by the same company since
1924, the Statesman and Austin American combined in 1973 to become the Austin
American-Statesman. In 1966, the paper covered the story of University
of Texas at Austin (UT) student and former Marine Charles Whitman, who killed 17
people, including himself, and injured 31 others in a shooting that took place
largely from a central tower on the university campus. Dewitt C. Reddick,
director of the UT School of Journalism nominated the paper's coverage for a
Pulitzer Prize.
Sources:
Barr, Alwyn. "Whitman, Charles Joseph."
Handbook of Texas
Online. Accessed April 15, 2011.
Bishop, Curtis and R. L. Schroeter. "Austin American-Statesman."
Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed April 15, 2011.
Scope and Contents
Newspaper and magazine clippings comprise the
Austin
American-Statesman Pulitzer Prize Nomination Scrapbook, 1966-1977,
documenting the 1966 sniper shootings on the University of Texas at Austin (UT)
campus. Compiled for a Pulitzer Prize nomination, the scrapbook contains ten stories
published by the Austin Statesman on the shooting and
its perpetrator, Charles Joseph Whitman, in 1966. Additionally, the scrapbook
includes clippings from Life and Time magazines on the shooting, later Austin
American-Statesman articles on one of the shooting's victims and the man who
nominated the paper, Dewitt C. Reddick director of the UT School of Journalism, and
a large newspaper insert published upon Reddick's death.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research use.
Index Terms
Subjects (Persons)
Reddick, DeWitt Carter, 1904-
Whitman, Charles Joseph, 1941-1966
Subjects (Organizations)
Austin American-statesman -- Archives
Journalism -- Texas -- Austin
University of Texas at Austin -- History -- 20th
century
Subjects
School shootings -- Texas -- Austin
Places
Austin (Tex.) -- History -- 20th
century
Preferred Citation
Austin American-Statesman Pulitzer Prize Nomination
Scrapbook, 1966-1977, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of
Texas at Austin.
Processing Information
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.
Detailed Description of the Papers
Inventory:
2.325/D27a
Scrapbook, 1966-1977