Pregnant Freshman Recalls the Moment She Was Shot
Clip: Season 18 Episode 9 | 1m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
TOWER premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Tuesday, February 14, 2017.
In this excerpt from Independent Lens documentary TOWER, Claire, a pregnant, 18-year-old freshman at the time, gives us a sense of the moments on the University of Texas campus on August 1, 1966, when her and her boyfriend, were hit by a sniper's bullet.
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Pregnant Freshman Recalls the Moment She Was Shot
Clip: Season 18 Episode 9 | 1m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
In this excerpt from Independent Lens documentary TOWER, Claire, a pregnant, 18-year-old freshman at the time, gives us a sense of the moments on the University of Texas campus on August 1, 1966, when her and her boyfriend, were hit by a sniper's bullet.
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