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Title: "I own a famous knife..." (Austin/blast from the past)
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DFWStangs.net
URL Source: http://www.dfwstangs.net/forums/showthread.php?t=381721
Published: Jan 27, 2009
Author: Vertnut
Post Date: 2009-01-27 00:54:45 by X-15
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Views: 85
"How would I go about authenticating something like this. Long story short, my grandfather had a shoe repair shop in Austin for many years, at the corner of Oltorf and South 1st. Charles Whitman's wife used his shop for shoe repair. She dropped off some shoes right before her husband goes on his rampage. My grandfather picked up one of the shoes to work on it, and this pocket knife fell out of it. He stuck it away, meaning to give it to her when she picked up the shoes. He always said it was common for men to toss their pocket knives inside their shoes. She was killed the day Whitman went on his rampage, so the shoes were around a while. The police department came in a week or so later with his wife's claim ticket, and picked up the shoes, after asking my G-pa a few questions. Anyway, I have that knife, and have had it for the last 16 years (he died in '92). Any ideas? I'm not even looking for money, but along the lines of a historian or society who may have a spot for it. The knife is nothing fancy in itself. Just an inexpensive pocket knife."
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