Akers, Monte, and Akers, Nathan, and Friedman, Roger
Houston, TX: John M. Hardy Publishing, Inc., 2016. First Printed Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 354 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by Roger Friedman on fep. Inscription reads Dear Paul, My Team Manager & great friend-Thanks for being here tonight. My Best, Roger 10/23/16. The heartbreaking currents of August 1, 1966 still ripple through the history of the University of Texas and in the memory of the victims of Charles Whitman. That was the day the engineering student at the University of Austin rode the elevator to the top of the 30 story university tower armed with seven firearms and a foot locker filled with ammunition, food, and supplies. His "reverse siege" of the campus and surrounding area lasted 96 minutes, during which he shot 56 persons, 14 fatally. When the murders of his wife and mother, plus the death of a victim in 2001 from wounds sustained that day are included, the total horror was 17 killed and 31 wounded. It was the first of what has become a sorry and sorrowful chain of similar events - campus mass shootings - in the United States. The former Director of Legal Services of the Texas Municipal League, Monte left TML in 2002 and in 2007 founded Akers & Akers. Mr. Akers became well-known to most Texas cities through conferences, speeches, educational training sessions, publications, and legislative advocacy. Two months after Roger Freidman graduated from high school in Austin, his closest childhood friend, Paul Sonntag, was shot and killed by the Tower sniper. More