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THIS WEEK IN TEXAS HISTORY

At noon on Aug. 1, 1966, Allen Crum, the floor manager at the University Co-Op, looked out the window and witnessed several students dragging a limp teenager through the grass on the edge of the University of Texas campus.

The burly 40-year-old Air Force veteran, a retired tail gunner, walked across Guadalupe Street to break up what he believed to be a fight. But as he drew closer to the circle of …

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