INDIANAPOLIS -- Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John Kennedy with a shot fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building in Dallas in 1963.

Three years later, Charles Whitman shot 46 people, killing 12, with an arsenal that included a high-powered rifle from atop a 300-foot-high tower on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin.

In the summer of 2024, presidential candidate Donald Trump survived a would-be assassin’s bullet fired from a rooftop at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign stop.

On Wednesday, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed with a single shot fired from the roof of a building on the Utah Valley University campus.

”It hasn’t changed much in 60 years.”

Steve Robertson is a retired IPD SWAT commander who participated in planning for

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