Shelton Williams was there when the shooting started, but it was not his first encounter with the young man who wreaked so much havoc on that hot August day in Austin, Texas, in 1966. While Shelly and Charles Whitman, the Tower Sniper did know each other, they were not friends and they were not adversaries at the University of Texas in the summer of 1966. They were just two guys with troubled families, personal insecurities, and challenged young marriages Summer of 66 is not about Charles Whitman and it is not about why the two young men took such different paths, it is a memoir about life at UT, about a mystery man, and about a young man and woman who faced a changing and dangerous world in a courageous way. Charles Whitman is simply a character in this true story.
Summer of '66
