 | | Thanks for sending it. She'll never know about that Grandmother or not.
Charlie
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Whitman's final letter to his father, C. A. Whitman, has never been made public.
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Whitman's grandiose schemes for mass murder required meticulous planning. For the next seven hours Whitman remained focused to an extent he had seldom, if ever, demonstrated on other, more wholesome pursuits. First, he retrieved from the small garage a green footlocker in which he would store his arsenal and other supplies. A forwarding address was stenciled in white letters on the marine locker: "C. A. Whitman, PO. Box 1065, Lake Worth, Fla., USA" along with "Lance Cpl. C. J. Whitman" followed by a fleet marine address. He packed as though remembering his assertion that "an army could be held off" from the Tower. The Austin Police Department later catalogued an amazing array of supplies including but not limited to:
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| | Channel Master 14 Transistor AM-FM Radio (portable) with brown case
Robinson Reminder (note book, no writing)
white 3-1/2 gallon plastic water jug (full of water)
red 3-1/2 gallon plastic gas jug (full of gasoline)
sales slip from Davis Hardware for 1 August 1966
four "C" cell flashlight batteries
several lengths of cotton and nylon ropes (different lengths)
plastic Wonda-scope compass
paperMate black ball point pen
one Gun Tector, green rifle scabbard
hatchet
Nesco machette with green scabbard
Hercules hammer
green ammunition box with gun cleaning equipment
Gene brand alarm clock
cigarette lighter
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