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The high-flying genius behind Kaepa shoes

Breaking a 54-year silence, an ex-priest best known as the creator of the Kaepa brand athletic shoe revealed his role in the UT tower tragedy in the Aug. 6, 2020, edition of the San Antonio Express-News.

Thomas Adams might not have lived to profit from his innovative idea for a new kind of footwear if Charles Whitman had caught him in his sights on that sunny Monday in August 1966. He never spoke p…

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