Early Life
Williams grew up in Odessa, Texas where he was educated in the public schools of that city. He played on a district championship football team at Permian High School. He attended the University of Texas at Austin from 1962 until 1966, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. degree and Honors in Government.
As a student at the University of Texas at Austin, he found himself caught up as a potential target during the Tower shootings perpetrated by Charles Whitman on August 1, 1966. Williams, who was driving along Guadalupe Street near the Tower building as the shootings began, personally saved several individuals from harm by his quick actions. His experiences that day later became the subject of an article in the Texas Monthly magazine and in a book about the shootings.
After graduating from the University of Texas, Williams attended what is now the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, located in Washington, D.C. He received a Ph.D. from SAIS in 1971. During those years, he also published his first book in 1969 with the Johns Hopkins University Press, The United States, India, and the Bomb.
Read more about this topic: Shelton Williams
Famous quotes containing the words early life, early and/or life:
“... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,—if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.”
—Hortense Odlum (1892–?)
“In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)
“There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man’s duties in order to be equal in rights.”
—Muammar Qaddafi (b. 1938)