page_title: William Cowper Brann
section_title: Legacy and death
hierarchical_section_title: William Cowper Brann / Legacy and death
caption_attribution_description: English: Grave monumnet W.C. Brann
context_page_description: William Cowper Brann was an American journalist known as Brann the Iconoclast and famous for the articulate savagery of his writing.
context_section_description: On April 1, 1898, Brann was walking alone on Waco's Fourth Street when he was shot in the back by Tom Davis, a Baylor supporter whose daughter was a student at the University. After being shot, Brann turned, drew his pistol, and fired multiple shots at Davis, who fell, mortally wounded, in the doorway of the Jake French Cigar Store. Brann was shot through the left lung with the bullet exiting his chest. He was forced to walk to the city jail but later escorted home by friends. Both Davis and Brann died the next day. Brann is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco. Engraved on Brann's monument is the word TRUTH, and beneath it is a profile of Brann with a bullet hole in it. Brann remains a controversial figure to this day.
caption: Brann's tombstone in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas
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