balls we've heard an alarming reports that robert kennedy was shot in that ballroom at the ambassador hotel in los angeles a very loud noise like a clap of thunder was heard a small explosion we waited to see what it was and then came a report that senator roberts several other people on the platform at least three at last count had also been wounded in an exchange of gunfire shaking hands with us as a staff that was in the kitchen as he was coming through and there's this guy running against  for sure and all and all of a sudden there was another guy alongside of him about two feet he started to fall down you know taken out first was there any warning whatsoever that no warning no no yells no anything there is no yells or anything preceded the first shot at the done man say anything did you hear any shots after i didn't hear any shots after a green man was described simply as being approximately twenty five years old five feet five weighing one hundred thirty five pounds apparently mexican american dark skin and shouted as after the shots had been fired very simply i did it for my country i love my country and beyond that no other identification of the assailant you  with the man with a gun looked like well he had curly hair and he looked like a filipino sayer shot anything not nothing that i described simply as a man appearing about twenty five years or five feet five hundred thirty five pounds wearing blue jeans and mumbled or shouted something after he had shot several bullets but he did it for his country no more than that roy wilkins expressed horror in his words do you think that this type of attempted assassination had become an american to happen as it would appear a soldier in vietnam asked what the hell was going on back there a man has to risk his life to run for the presidency some communist news organizations use the occasion for propaganda tacks the official commentator for task said that the vietnam war has stimulated a criminal mentality in america and suggested that the shooting was linked to the assassination of president kennedy and radio hanoi said the incident illustrates quote the dirty face and tactics of u s politicians who will not hesitate to spill blood in order to even the sc after he had been seized and turned over to police and taken outside the hotel the crowd there seemed to many eyewitnesses to the members of the kennedy family were let out through the crush for more on the assailant in the shooting incident itself c b s news correspondent walter cronkite joe police chief thomas resident of los angeles has issued a short statement regarding the suspect the alleged gunman he says this about him we don't know who the suspect is he has made no statement he would not speak except once he said yes we describe him as a male caucasian around twenty five five feet five and about one hundred twenty pounds swarthy complection his hair is described as wiring or a bushy a apparently fired all of the eight shots in the magazine of a twenty two caliber revolver those shots taking effect and senator kennedy and four other persons as far as we have been able to determine with some still rather confused reports and incomplete identification on all of the others wounded one what most of those shots came so close together that he could scarcely believe they were fired from one gun reporter heard the shots from adjoining room said they sounded almost like they came from a machine gun so short it was the burst of fire the question is what kind of country is the united states that in just the last few years  states as a permanent resident in january of one nine hundred fifty seven is not a united states citizen residence is in pasadena california where he resides with his mother and his brother joe police search the premises this morning and according to los angeles mayor samuel york found a notebook in the suspect room mentioning the necessity to assassinate senator kennedy another brother went with police to headquarters but not as a suspect police college one thing appears certain about surrounds personality he is not highly excitable and does not appear to be mentally unstable the crowds outside st patrick's cathedral have increased so dramatically that it's almost park avenue they have to move on are they have the new move north to blacks the fifty third street and back down park avenue south on fifty third street south to grand central station identification of the suspect in the shooting was made within the last hour by the mayor of los angeles sami already already it appeared appeared at a news conference in los angeles first of all let me say that every right thinking person  from the outside the shooting of robert kennedy seemed an open and shut case soreheads or hand eventually confessed to the murder and no one was apparently troubled by the fact that he couldn't seem to remember it in his pocket was a ten day old newspaper article attacking robert kennedy for support of israel it might have been a bit more help to investigators if the clipping had been pin dysart hand shirt and labeled the motive but no matter so henna been caught going in hand  now a professor of criminal justice we spoke several months ago one the night bob he was assassinated i was working in the los angeles office of the f b i i was called out to were two thirty in the morning  i was told to report to the ambassador hotel and probably spent fifteen or twenty minutes in the pantry area itself i was walking around looking at the various locations trying in my would if it was around the hole was freshly broken away billy's description of the hotel pantry would have first seem to carry no special significance he went to the scene of a shooting and saw bullet holes quite a few others had as well in fact photographs were taken of police officials and others pointing proudly to bullet holes in the walls and ceiling but by the next day it was known that five bullets had been recovered from the five wounded bystanders and that kennedy had been struck three times with another bullet passing through his suit jacket the problem for the l a p d was that's our hands for johnson twenty two caliber pistol held only eight bullets first for only a single gun to be firing there could be no extra bullet holes in the walls and ceiling with some creative accounting using ricochets the police managed to make the numbers work but to do this the holes in the wood by the doorway which the night before had been trophies are the other but they weren't there but to the chagrin of the l a p d there was a great body of evidence pointing to the existence of these bullet statements from witnesses statements from police officers wire service photographs and most damning of all clearly labeled f b i photographs which surface in one nine hundred seventy five which included close ups a den of firing bullet holes in the wood by the doorway the l a p d however continues to claim that the witnesses were mistaken and the photo was mislabeled at the deep picks in the wood are only nail holes that's ridiculous i was there they were positively bullet holes anyone who is saying anything different either didn't see the holes the way i did or they have some other agenda as far as extra bullets are concerned why not settle the matter by a scientific examination of the door frames in the ceiling  well this is not possible because as it was revealed in one nine hundred seventy five not only had the door frames and the ceiling tiles been removed by the police the night of the murder they had been secretly destroyed in june of one nine hundred sixty on april thus in one of the most important murder investigations in the nation's history the los angeles police ask us to believe that a few pieces of wood and several ceiling tiles were too much trouble  they were giving me direct responses to my direct question and about twenty of the people i talked had clearly identified bullets bullet fragments or bullet holes at the crime scene itself in the  removed to twenty two caliber bullets from the center divider now according to the los angeles police department official report there should have been no bullet damage in the walls and the door frames of the crime scene that frames in the ceiling tiles were not the only things that disappeared on the night of the murder scott and you're with a fifteen year old student with dreams of becoming a world traveling photojournalist using stolen press credentials he worked his way into the embassy room to photograph robert kennedy at the moment of triumph i was about five feet from the podium as he finished his speech i followed him into the pantry area as i got into the pantry i was about ten feet behind him continuing to take pictures as  hands with people and also that's on a drop from the frying he fell and i continued taking pictures and i backed off i jumped up on a table everyone from me had been shot and fell i jumped up to get out of the way i continue taking pictures for a while a friend of ours got passes just thought you know it would be fun we get some pictures so that's where we came there are some missing from it i took a thirty six exposure role and i got twenty six prince back as he tried to leave that my photographs are going to be used in the trial sort of answer hand they gave me back photographic prints of the speech and then everything after i left the pantry but they took all of the pictures that i actually took in the pantry those were missing that's basically it and i waited twenty years they told me you know evidence had been destroyed by the l a p d three weeks before sir him strong contrary to popular belief there was no photographic or video record of the assassination of robert kennedy scott and your pictures were the only ones taken of the shooting as it was occurring it is therefore impossible to believe that both the prints and the negatives would have somehow been lost by accident we know that they were developed because and you'd receive prints of both before and after the shooting and  has told us he was screened from her hand all we would have seen in any arts photos is what was going on behind senator kennedy what subversive image then at scott and your camera captured a strong clue may be morning briefly stated the autopsy found that the wounds inflicted upon senator kennedy were inflicted from behind a sharp aboard ingle and in extremely close range using powder burn analysis n los angeles as he went to testify before the grand jury you could see was reportedly approached by an assistant district attorney and asked to change his asians on the firing distance from him choose to feel because he refused he then became the target of a vicious campaign to destroy his credibility in the autumn of one nine hundred sixty eight he was suspended as corner and defense attorneys prevented the details of his autopsy from being introduced at the trial of her head nevertheless the wounds as described by talking to me seem entirely inconsistent with a sore head whose place by most witnesses wrestling with maitre d carl euchre about four to six feet in front of senator kennedy attorney godfrey logic defended him well the first question that i ask of a witness with reference to showing what a cop wouldn't really extraordinary autopsy document for the deputy county council asked to approach the commissioner define what he meant by that but he seemed to indicate that it would cast a great deal of doubt on what we heard about robert kennedy's death the headlines at the time said that there was a mystery to the robert kennedy autopsy well a paradox that's never been explained is how the los angeles county through the district attorney's office put base a murder charge on the autopsy doctor to go gee and then in the hearing a relative to his firing  tried to take the same autopsy to show that he should be fired as a matter of fact i don't think this is something that can be explained and i think that anyone who reasons and thinks would be naive not the feel there might be some connection and with regard to assassinations and what occurred my wife rowena elected as my legal aide throughout the hearing which as you know resolve the doc in a good he's big completely cleared of all the charges and reinstated as coroner received a call from a lady who in fact made the appointment to come to our home and who wanted to speak with us because she had been at the ambassador that night and she herself had seen a security guard fir if we follow the path of the bullets that struck robert kennedy they seem to point not to sore hand but to an assassin directly behind and to the right of the senator the police initially claim that there were no other guns drawn in the pantry there was a person directly behind robert kennedy to his right with a gun drawn got on your saw him getting up off the floor he had his his weapon out suspicion directed at the new gene caesar an employee of a security service does not know it was the central thesis of pitcher rex groundbreaking one nine hundred seventy three film documentary the second gun according to his own testimony caesar was a last minute recruit for duty at the ambassador that night he had worked brace for less than a week caesar has admitted that he had his gun drawn that night but he says he never fired it but another witness journalist on schulman claimed to a radio reporter immediately after the murder that he saw caesar firing his gun i was in the entryway following the senator he stopped shook hands with several people and started to progress again we're back in there like sardines lights cameras people a lot of excitement center just finish a key hands with someone and another man i think it was the maitre d walked up and took his hand as we were slowly pushed forward another man stepped out and shot just on the guard who was standing behind kennedy took out his gun and he fired also the next thing i knew is that kennedy was shot three times now how far was hand from senator kennedy at the time to any police authorities i told the story to several different people including several police authorities right after it happened i insisted the senator was shot three times i was told by the police which police i was told by the f a tape recording with jeff brant and several people i tell in fact i also told him that the guard pulled out the gun and everyone told me that in the confusion i i didn't see what i saw well i didn't see everything that happened that night  like the black man the black man down from last forty eight years has been cramming this integrated idea down aren't shown and so you've learned to hate them and one of these days in the rates are going there's go ten guys there that night and different guards were being very good at their posts and checking people's idea and only letting certain people in the for whatever reason the kitchen was constantly unguarded there one of the kennedy staffers was complaining to the cleese of the file about how she had to was there so i mean if you wanted to have a guy you know in there to make sure sir him got into the room because frankly if you're patsy doesn't get in the pantry the whole plot is all right you know you got to get him into the pantry the way to do that cesar is strong it should also be mentioned that there are reliable reports of other guns in the pantry dr philip williams and is the director of the art of cases nation archives at the university of massachusetts and he has investigated these reports to date there have been four witnesses whose accounts seem probable to me who have talked about seeing a man in plain clothes with a gun in the pantry and three of those four witnesses allege that such a many guns being sold our one gun was pulled out my a security guard and it was hard and that's what i saw the first policeman to arrive at the master hotel room when a young couple in their late teens early twenties a girl wearing a polka dot dress came running by them shouting we shot him we shot him we killed him and the older woman asked who did you shoot they described he would report in triplicate with this information and send it to headquarters drougas a p b would soon be cancelled over his objections as reports would finish a couple weeks later i want to refer to  for one reason or another and they were all missing and i asked when the day watch sergeant knew anything about it and he stated that to ask us man had been there that day and cleaned out all the reports and i called them and they denied that they' even been there and then apparently they felt they had to make another report and they made a phone off the interview report which stated that they interviewed me and i retracted my statement about we shot him to they shot him i never was interviewed and never contradicted my first two statements but nevertheless apparently they thought that the reports would not be scrutinized radio communications for peta forty to forty five minutes something was very strange it never happened before at present there's no place to my mind the elements of the cia were involved two of the an exit staircase outside the hotel at about eleven forty five she claimed three people a woman and two men one of whom she would later identified as her hand pushed by her on the staircase and went into the hotel about a half hour later she said the same woman and one of the men came running down the stairs the woman and she serrano had a bizarre exchange of words with serrano described life on t v just a little while later i was standing there just thinking you know thinking about how many people there were and how wonderful it was then this girl came running down the stairs in the back came running down the stairs and said we've shot him we've shot him and i sa were able to get a police artist to make a composite this portray was later on shown to lynching the pair of mention the pirro had seen in the bulk of the british a few minutes prior to the shooting in the company officer of the witnesses saw him seemingly in the company of a young attractive woman and that would happen in the ballroom and others would say it happened in the pantry just before the shooting and in different places during the  repeatedly by police her phone rang constantly her house was broken into on june twentieth to run it was told to come down to headquarters and ask the commit to a polygraph test given by sargent and ricky hernandez the theme ha begins in a normal enough fashion hernandez explains that the l a p d desires to conduct a thorough investigation and want to leave no stone unturned he asked serrano several different times whether he was telling the truth about the night of the murder