Public Affairs; Robert F. Kennedy Assassination

It was a time bomb he is on the Google telephone switchboard dissolve news agency and newspaper offices were blocked for a time this morning by people asking for more details of the Kennedy shooting. A spokesman for the coalition government said yeah shocked at the tragedy of this family. A spokesman for the Christian Democrats the party of the Council adopt accusing us also spoke of the shock his party for whatever what he called this abominable murder attempt. The leader of the opposition free democratic body his shadow said the shooting was a warning that politics throughout the world must get back to a situation where violence was excluded. In MacDougall BBC thought. In Nairobi the news of the shooting broke as President Kenyatta was about to say goodbye to friends and colleagues at the end of the Zambian presidents state visit to Canada. We received this cable from Ronald Ross. The news was relayed to President Kenyatta and President Hollande as they were in the VIP half an hour before President colander was due to leave for Kampala. A senior press officer of Kenya's ministry of information read the news item. Both

presidents expressed shock and sadness. President I want to manage this is very shocking. The two presidents exchanged some words in private. And then. President Kenyatta said it is very shocking. The United States ambassador to Kenya Mr. Glenn Ferguson also had the news of the airport. Oh my God he said. He told newsman it would be inappropriate for him to say anything at the moment he was too shocked. But he said he must get back to his office and get together as much information as he could. One newspaper the Daily Nation saw the news as so serious that there was a special edition of the paper on the presses within an hour of the news having been received by the wire services. Gunman shoots. Senator Kennedy said the now front page headline. The reaction of ordinary Africans here was also of shock and indeed grief. That America has a sick society one said to me. How can they have people who do such things. President Kennedy Luther King and Robert Kennedy who myson de escalated the war in Vietnam. They've all been shot. Who is behind it. Why are these people so

sick. Another 10 different operator in a newspaper office and well up with pride of affairs said to me it's quite true that President calendar told the International Press Institute conference when some fairly small thing happens in Africa. The world press blows up. But what about America. What about petty things I thought Wes and more uncivilized if you ask me. Outside the continent of Africa. We read you that report from Ronald Robson and Nairobi. Now we've just received this report from General Priestland in Los Angeles. What about. Point from the candidate. It ended right here. Been operating with Senator Kennedy and blah blah blah and he

was not breathing with the help of a mechanical. Operation at. The blood brain and governing long in the Senate. For the time being it would be. A young man. I may be off of the shooting and all being frightened by the fact that nothing they think of the Washington Navy had any. Great thing taken to protect them from the fate of Kennedy

and I'm still wanting to put it up. Find out why the whole thing. And with a report from General Priestland in Los Angeles we come to the end of this edition of Radio in New York. You have been listening to Patrick Smith BBC broadcast as emanating from Rome and now from the local scene news sources. Here is the latest Doing course reporting. A famed Massachusetts neurosurgeon has flown to California on a military jet plane to a Ton Son of the Robert Kennedy at the request of Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Dr. James Poppins wife said in Brookline today that Vice President Humphrey called him personally from Colorado Springs shortly after the shooting and asked him to fly out. Dr. Popkin is a long time Kennedy family friend and treated the late President Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy in the past. Dr. Popkin is on the stuff of famed Lahey Clinic in Boston. Senator Robert Kennedy has been taken from surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.

Neurosurgeons had labored for three hours and 40 minutes trying to remove the would be assassins bullet from the young presidential candidate's brain. First word on Kennedy's condition. Hope mingled with anxiety. The senator is extremely critical. Adding the next 12 to 36 hours will be crucial. A team of surgeons remove bullet fragments from Kennedy's head but did not take out a bullet still lodged in his neck until the operation he was able to breathe only with the systems. Doctors warn that the senator might have suffered impairment of the blood supply to that part of the brain governing the eye tracked the level of consciousness and directly his speech. Earlier deputy Los Angeles Mayor Joseph Quinn had quoted doctors as saying they were encouraged that Kennedy might recover with permanent brain damage. Kennedy was gunned down in a Los Angeles hotel only minutes after he had proclaimed victory over Senator Eugene McCarthy in California's bellwether presidential primary. Kennedy had stepped down from the podium and was making his way to the hotel kitchen behind a

flying wedge of campaign workers dark complection step toward Kennedy and snapped off eight shots from a 22 caliber pistol. News reports Kennedy cringed threw his hands up over his face fell to the floor bleeding from wounds to the head and shoulder. By of all the persons most of them newsman or Kennedy aides were wounded one seriously Kennedy's wife Ethel bent over him whispering and audible words of comfort the jubilant victory celebration was suddenly swept by shock shouts of Bobby has been shot crackled throughout the ballroom. Within minutes and ambulance was rushing Kennedy to central receiving hospital where examining physician Dr. Victor first believed the senator was dead the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church were administered. Dr. Oz placed a stethoscope to Kennedy's chest and I'm satisfied that there was a heartbeat. I love Mrs. Kennedy to listen before her husband was placed in an ambulance again and transferred to Good Samaritan Hospital for surgery.

Kennedy's assailant is still unidentified. He was subdued by the Senate campaign workers but only after he had fired all eight shots. Police Chief Thomas Redden says the suspect is a white male 25 to 28 years old. His fingerprints have been forwarded to the FBI Chief Bratton added. As near as we can tell there's only one person involved. Attorney General Ramsey Clark also says those no evidence of conspiracy. But President Johnson has assigned secret service agents to cover all presidential candidates. Senator Eugene McCarthy having halted his campaign is under heavy guard at his Los Angeles hotel. The information so far collected according to Attorney General Ramsey Clark indicates that this shooting was what he called just an individual act. Meanwhile former ambassador Joseph Kennedy still has not been told of the wounding of his son Robert. However the ambassador now at his Hyannis Port home has been

informed that the son of a won the California primary the elder Kennedy was given a sedative which is described as not normal. A family source. Normally they would give him a sedative later on in the day. Meanwhile in New York prices today open slightly lower in active trading on the Stock Exchange. Wall Street commentators generally felt the tragic shooting of Senator Kennedy might have an emotional impact today. But if you look for any long term decline Newton designer of Hutton's the effect of the shooting probably would be limited to the morning hours. You know what the market has been rising sharply on profit taking seem do anyway. The news probably will be used as an excuse. The analyst added that this theory depends greatly on events unfolding during the day. This is the news Dean course reporting. And now for listeners in the Boston area and view of the continuing concern about the condition of son of Robert F. Kennedy

WGBH TV Channel 2 has canceled today's fund raising auction and is making plans for special programming this evening. The Channel 2 auction will not take place today. More news in the Kennedy situation as it happens. We paused 10 seconds for station identification. This is the eastern educational radio network. This is WGBH FM eighty nine point seven mega cycles Public Radio in Boston. Think would be an advantage for the leasing lease negotiate or was it what I'm getting at is that this is a distance let's say which is somehow a normal runnable store distance. You end up having in a sense two facades of street facade which is a public facade and in theory a facade which is about what seems to me that one of the one of the advantages of the two story scheme is that with this kind of with

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