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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1973
Page
4
Reporter Guy Coating details a deadly sniper attack in a New Orleans hotel scene. Barricades, gunfire, and trapped journalists describe a chaotic morning as officers and guards shield colleagues and bystanders while writers improvise to relay information to the office.
In a high rise siege over a downtown hotel, police helicopters engaged armed shooters on the roof while bullets cracked through windows. Officers battled to rescue civilians as the chase and gunfire spanned multiple floors and stairwells.
Fragmented account recalls the August 4 1964 UT Austin tower massacre by Charles Whitman. The shooter killed 13 people from the observation deck, wounding many, before being shot by police and ending his rampage.
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