The use of sniping ( in the sense of shooting at relatively long range from a concealed position ) to murder came to public attention in a number of sensational U.S. criminal cases , including the Austin sniper incident of 1966 ( Charles Whitman ) , the John F. Kennedy assassination ( Lee Harvey Oswald ) , and the Beltway sniper attacks of late 2002 ( Lee Boyd Malvo ) . However , these incidents usually do not involve the range or skill of military snipers ; in all three cases the perpetrators had U.S. military training , but in other specialties . News reports will often ( inaccurately ) use the term sniper to describe anyone shooting with a rifle at another person
Austin sniper incident
University of Texas tower shooting
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