Because the LBJ Presidential Library was mostly closed for renovations, I walked around a small part of the
University of Texas at Austin campus, which includes the
Texas Memorial Museum. The Texas Memorial Museum is the main exhibit hall of the
Texas Natural Science Center and has a collection of 5.7 million specimens in the disciplines of
paleontology,
geology,
biology,
herpetology,
ichthyology and
entomology. The museum was first opened on January 15, 1939. Ground was broken for the building by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, it currently has an enrollment of 51,000 students. The main campus has 150 buildings on 424 acres.
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| The Tower, completed in 1937, stands 307 ft tall. On August 1, 1966, Texas student Charles Whitman barricaded the observation deck in the tower of the Main Building. With two rifles, a sawed-off shotgun and various other weapons, he killed 16 people on campus from the observation deck, below the clocks on the tower and three more in the tower, as well as wounding two more inside the observation deck. |
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