On Aug. 1, 1966, a sniper climbed the steps of the University of Texas at Austin’s 27-story tower. Seventeen people were killed, and more than 30 others were injured. Fifty-six years later, mass shootings make headlines nearly every week. And the...
During my first semester here at the University of Texas campus, I took a class with Professor Robert Quigley, who mentioned creating the Drag Audio Production House and its series called “Darkness.” At the time, audio journalism wasn’t...
In December 2021, Sara Kinney sat across from me and Robert Quigley, the founder of The Drag, and pitched us a six-episode series about the University of Texas Tower shootings in 1966. She told us that she, a sophomore journalism student at UT at...