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The University of Texas Shooting

The first campus killings in the US; an arts festival in Lebanon; meeting JD Salinger

On 1 August 1966, student Charles Whitman shot dead 14 people and injured another 32 in America's first mass shooting at a university. Plus, the oldest arts festival in the Middle East; how President Reagan smashed the power of the trade unions; and meeting JD Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye".

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Mon 8 Aug 201603:06GMT
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