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== Trivia == * It is currently the tenth deadliest [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] in modern American history. * Whitman inspired [[Nikolas Cruz]] to perpetrate the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting in February 2018.<ref>[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/im-going-what-did-youtube-12029749 'I'm going to do what he did': YouTube user 'Nikolas Cruz' revealed mass shooting plan NINE MONTHS before Florida school massacre], ''The Mirror''</ref> * Whitman expressed remorse for his actions in the suicide note found by police, and requested that his life insurance be donated to a mental health foundation.<ref name = Whitman></ref> * In the 1987 film ''Full Metal Jacket'', the character of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman praises Whitman's marksmanship, along with that of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], emphasizing that they were both former Marines. * A television movie was made about the shooting in 1975, called ''The Deadly Tower'', featuring Kurt Russell as Whitman.<ref>[https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Deadly_Tower,_The ''Deadly Tower, The''], ''Internet Movie Firearms Database''</ref>
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