Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

I remember it well, first because I was a week away from boarding a train to travel to Camp Lejeune for my first summer camp. A train because there was an airline strike.

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/today-in-labor-history-airline-workers-strike-in-196/

And then again, 21 years later, when it was
immortalized/satirized, darkly, in Full Metal Jacket.

"Before you ladies leave my island you will all be able to do the same thing."

Close up on the face of the increasingly deranged private Pyle. A visage that could serve for all of the crazed mfr's who would follow him, and actually do the same thing.

Full Metal Jacket - Charles Whitman - Lee Harvey Oswald


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting

On August 1, 1966, after stabbing his mother and his wife to death the night before, Charles Whitman, a former Marine, took rifles and other weapons to the observation deck atop the Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin, then opened fire indiscriminately on people on the surrounding campus and streets.

Over the next 96 minutes he shot and killed 14 more people (including an unborn baby) and injured 31 others. One final victim died in 2001 from the lingering effects of his wounds. The incident ended when a policeman and a civilian reached Whitman and shot him dead.

The attack was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history until it was surpassed 18 years later by the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre.