Episode 8: 'It's a bleak part of our existence'

Episode 8: 'It's a bleak part of our existence' | The UT Tower Sniper

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Forty-four years after the Tower shootings, another shooting occurs on the University of Texas campus. Survivors continue their lives while gun violence grows as a hot-button political issue. The physical wounds begin to heal, but the emotional ones remain.

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