Lisa Lopez-Galvan has been identified as a victim of the
Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting that saw 29
injured, including nine children.
Lisa Lopez-Galvan has been identified as a victim of the
Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting that saw 29
injured, including nine children.
On December 29, 1890, in one of the final chapters of America’s
long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry killed 146 Sioux at Wounded
Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
A depiction of the Ghost Dance.
Civilian burial party, loading victims on a cart for burial.
Mass grave at the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
On this day in 1966,Charles Whitman took a stockpile of
guns and ammunition to the observatory platform atop
a 300-foot tower at the University of Texas and proceeded
to shoot 46 people, killing 14 people and wounding 32.
Whitman, who had killed both his wife and mother the
night before, was eventually shot to death after courageous
Austin police officers, including Ramiro Martinez, charged
up the stairs of the tower to subdue the attacker.
Ramiro "Ray" Martinez turned 86 in January.
Charles Joseph Whitman
(June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966)