Charles Whitman’s longest lethal shot was scored on Roy Dell Schmidt, an Austin city electrical service man who had been stopped by a police barricade on the south side of 21st Street. He was shot and killed while trying to leave the area. While I do not have the exact slant range, the ground distance between the center of the roper and where Schmidt was killed is about 988 feet or about 330 yards. If you want to give him the maximum benefit of the doubt and pretend he was on the very tip top of the structure, the maximum range at which he was hitting was 1034 feet or 345 yards (all values Roy fed up.)
Autocorrect got me there - all values are rounded up, not Roy fed. :P
Also, “roper” should be “tower.”
Thanks for responding. Gotta admit. That’s a heckova shot for a guy with no practice and a walnut-sized tumor in his noggin. The Tower would be approximately where a 24th-25th street might be if one existed.