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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - June 6, 1968, Norwich, New York The f. Vening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper vol. 78, no. 58 thursday june 6, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy Assassin a Bullet is fatal to blk shot twice just after his Victory statement in the California primary Robert Kenedy lies on the floor of assassination note disclosed los Angeles apr his name is Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. Police say he is a Cool close mouthed jordanian who fired a Bullet from close Range into the brain of sen. Robert Kennedy. Mayor Samuel w. Yorty says Sirhan apparently wrote in a 9-by-12 Inch notebook about a the necessity to assassinate sen. Kennedy before june 5, 1968.�?� Many a neighbors former employers and the authorities a say he hates jews. He Hurt his head in a fall last year says his Mother. A fall i know is he is a Nice kid a says one of his four Brothers. A District attorneys investigator revealed today he was told Sirhan had been jailed by Pasadena police last december. But investigator Milt Smith declined to say on what charge Sirhan was arrested. The record says Sirhan is 24 years old 5-feet-5, weighs about 120 pounds has a Swarthy complexion and wiry hair. He has been an exercise boy at a race track wanted to be a jockey and worked in a health food j store. He was under maximum Security guard 4n a Hospital Ward at the los Angeles county Central jail charged with six counts of assault with intent to commit murder. He is to appear at 8 30 . Monday for a preliminary hearing before municipal judge Joan Klein. Sirhan a Index Finger was broken and his left ankle sprained in a tussle that ended in his capture seconds after Kennedy was shot Early wednesday. Sirhan has talked to police but not about Kennedy or the shooting. Officers said he was advised of his rights but did no to want an attorney. He refused to give officers his name. A ifs Nice to remain incommunicado a a inspector Pete Hagen quoted him As saying. He a May have been inflamed by Kennedy Scall for . Jets for Israel during a televised Campaign debate saturday night said a new York committee on american. Arab relations. A the was violently pro Jordan and anti Israel a said John Shear who worked with Sirhan at Hollywood Park race track. A when there was trouble Between Jordan and Israel he would become with permission from Sirhan a family police recovered two notebooks from his room. They contain 18 to 20 pages of handwriting. Some in arabic most in English. In a notation entered either May it or 18, the mayor said Sirhan apparently wrote a a direct reference to the necessity to assassinate sen. Kennedy before june 5, 1968.�?� Kennedy was shot when june 5 was Only a few minutes old. It was the first anniversary of the beginning of the six Day Arab Israel War. A my son a it can to be. No. Of no a cried Mary Sirhan when she Learned her boy was arrested. Mrs. Sirhan is a housekeeper at a presbyterian Nursery school in Pasadena. A never since he had a fall about a year ago. He Hasni to been the same. I can to talk to mrs. Sirhan said her son fell from a horse and a Hurt his head she pointed to her right Temple. I m sorry says father Oil accused Tayyeba israeli occupied Jordan apr the father of the Young Man accused of shooting sen. Robert f. Kennedy locked up his House today and cried from a window a i am sorry. I brought up my children to be scores of journalists con. Verged on this sleepy Mountain Village 2,300 feet High Overlook ing the City of Jericho. Bishara Sirhan 53, a Short Swarthy Man who lives alone in his Stone cottage in a Field then retreated behind the shutters and would Only say a i am very very sorry. I brought up my children As Best i could and to fear god. I am sorry for what neighbors said Bishara Sirhan first went to the United states in 1950, and brought his wife Mary and sons Sherif Adel Munir say Adullah and Sirhan to America in 1957. Bishara quarrelled wit i his wife and returned to Jordan in 1961, neighbors said. In Tayyeba he built his two Story cottage. Sirhan who is jobless said he had had no letters from his sons since he returned to the Village which fell under israeli Rule in the Middle East War a year ago. Courts Jose both Norwich City court and Chenango county court will be closed Friday in respect for the late senator Robert f. Kennedy. The announcement was made this morning from the of fice of Chenango county judge Lynn n. Peterson. To share fallen Brothers grave tragedy to affect Campaign Washington apr sen. Robert f. Kennedy a death Lias removed in a tragic manner the chief challenger to vice president Hubert h. Humphreys quest for the democratic presidential nomination. With the new York senator s death the fateful 1968 election year turned a fatal Corner and left what Many observers see As an uneven race Between Humphrey and his fellow minnesotan sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy. Although the Humphrey name has not appeared on any primary ballots he claims to have built up a Long Lead by picking up delegates in the Tough backstage Battles in the no primary states while Kennedy and Mccarthy were battling it out in primaries. Many observers Felt Only the Kennedy mystique and dash could overcome Humphreys Strong base of democratic a a establishment support among party leaders and labor unions. Humphrey and his aides had refused to speculate on the Polit ical Impact of the Kennedy shooting and along with Mccarthy clamped an indefinite moratorium on campaigning even before the senators death. A we think ifs not Only inappropriate to speculate a said a Humphrey aide a we think it s after the Kennedy shooting a strategist said Humphrey aides sent appeals to supporters asking that planned caucuses of Ohio and Michigan delegations where the vice president hoped to Nail Down More support be postponed. And the strategist said Humphrey called off plans to begin campaigning in new York for the Empire states primary. He cancelled a schedule calling for him to open his California Campaign june 13. Mccarthy returning to Washington wednesday night said he Ai Ai 1-01 Washington apr the House heeding appeals to approve legislation the late sen. Robert f. Kennedy had fought for in the Senate appeared ready today to pass a Bill that would ban interstate mail order sales of pistols. A if there is one Man who would want this Bill passed it is sen. Kennedy a rep. William t. Cahill r.n.j., told the House wednesday. Kennedy and his brother sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., sought during Senate consider. Tion of the Bill to include a ban would Confer with president Johnson and the vice president a before taking on other political activities of any a Humphrey aide had said the vice president would Welcome a meeting with his old Friend and political ally from Minnesota. Even while competing for the democratic nomination Humphrey and Mccarthy have reportedly continued to have Pri vate chats. Kennedy s death came at a critical turning Point in the pre convention Campaign. With their primary show Der gun a on interstate mail order sales of rifles and shotguns but the Senate declined to do it. A mail order Rifle killed their brother president John f. Kennedy. A if we act Robert Kennedy told the new York City Council last August a we can save hundreds of lives in this country and spare thousands of families All across this land the grief and Heartbreak that May come from the loss of a Hus. Band a son a brother or a acting within hours of the los Angeles shooting the House Vot Downs concluded Kennedy and Mccarthy were preparing to wrestle Humphrey for votes in states that pick their delegates in caul uses and convention a or by non binding primaries. After his victories tuesday in the California and South Dakota primaries which he had proclaimed Only moments before being shot Kennedy had 274 /2 votes in the associated press tabulation of democratic National convention delegates a1-ready selected. Humphrey has 308/2 and Mccarthy 234�?T/ in the a tabulation. N due de wednesday against sending the Bill to a Senate. House conference committee where there was any possibility it could be altered. Pickets gathered outside the National Rifle association head quarters in Washington. One placard read a Congress must act on gun the Kennedy shooting was de. Bounced As a a terrible tragedy. A senseless act by Franklin Orth executive vice presi Dent of the or a by far the strongest group opposing the legislation being debated by Congress. Los Angeles apr sen. Robert f. Kennedy felled like his president brother by an assassins Bullet died Earl today. His mourning family prepared to take his body Home to new York across the nation Kennedy had hoped to Lead As presi Dent. And on saturday the senator is to be buried in Arlington National cemetery at the Hillside plot which is the resting place of his brother the late John f. Kennedy. Robert Kennedy 42, never regained consciousness never showed signs of recovery after a Savage burst of revolver fire sent a Bullet plunging into his brain at the Pinnacle of his own Campaign for the White House. Kennedy his pregnant wife Ethel at his bedside died at 1 44 . Put Little More than 24 hours after the assault at the ambassador hotel. Kennedy a body was to be flown from Ixos Angeles to new York later today on a Jet air plane provided by the White House. Pierre Salinger former presidential press Secretary said the body would lie in state Friday at St. Patrick a Cathedral in new York City. A requiem mass will be held there saturday morning. Salin Ger said Kennedy would be buried late saturday in Arlington across the Potomac River from Washington where an eternal flame flickers in memory of John Kennedy slain four years and seven months ago. In preparation for Kennedy a St Gurney a postmortem was under Way at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown los and Geles. President Johnson the Man who succeeded president Ken Nedy issued a proclamation calling for a National Day of mourning for the senator next sunday. Gov. Ronald Reagan declared a state of mourning in California for the period through the senator s funeral. As Kennedy died the Man accused of shooting him was under heavy guard at a downtown prison Hospital held in $250,000 bail for a court appearance which had been scheduled monday. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was accused of wielding the .22-caliber revolver which Cut Down Kennedy and wounded five other people Early wednesday As the senator and his supporters celebrated Victory in the California presidential primary. The los Angeles sheriffs of. Lice refused to say whether Sirhan had been advised that Kennedy was dead. Sirhan a jordanian who had been living in Pasadena was described by those who knew him As a Man inflamed Over the hostilities Between his native state and Israel. A former employer said he might have been enraged by Kennedy a past words of support for Israel. Kennedy smother mrs. Rose Kennedy was told of the death of her son by a Niece Ann Gar Gan. She was at Hyannis port mass. Mrs. Kennedy who had campaigned for Robert in the presidential primaries went to mass at St. Francis Xavier Church. Mrs. Kennedy had talked by Telephone with sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., the family a Lone surviving son who was at Robert s bedside at the end. Kennedy was surrounded by members of his family when he died. Salinger said Ethel the widow a is bearing up very mrs. John f. Kennedy widow of the assassinated president was in her brother in Laws Nom when he died. Two of Kennedy a Sisters mrs. Stephen Smith and mrs. Patricia Lawford were there too. Salinger said three of Kennedy s to children were in Nadja. Cent room and saw their father before he died. Pale and Haggard Frank Mankiewicz Kennedy a press Secretary announced the death to newsmen. A sen. Robert Francis Kennedy died at 1 44 . Today a he began. Then he answered questions. What was the specific cause of death Mankiewicz looked up numbly. A the gunfire attack a he said. He said a the Bullet that went into the head near the right earn was the fatal shot. It entered Kennedy a brain surgeons operated for 3 hours and 40 minutes to remove All but a fragment in a vain attempt to save the senators life. But Kennedy never rallied. A it was not a question of his sinking a Mankiewicz said a but of not rising. He needed a rally and steady improvement in his condition and that did not Salinger announced the body was to be taken from los an Geles Between to and la . Put. He said the family friends and some staff members were to be aboard. The requiem mass will be held at to . Saturday. The body will be placed on a train at 12 30 . For the last journey to Washington. It is expected to arrive at about 4 40 . The funeral route will take the cortege past the . Senate office building where Kennedy worked and the department of Justice where he served As attorney general. Salinger said Kennedy will be buried at about 5 30 . Saturday in Arlington probably at the Hillside site where his brother s body lies. Salinger said a fall Legal requirements would be met before the body is removed from California. This apparently was in reference to an autopsy. Los Angeles ambassador hotel clutching Rosary beads placed in his hands by a priest. He died Early today. Protected by police from assault by angry crowds the Man seized after the Kennedy shooting is hustled out of the ambassador hotel. Sen Robert f. Kennedy victim in Victory Johnson violence Washington apr a somber president Johnson has named a Blue ribbon commission to seek the causes of violence in the land violence that has now stricken Fen. Robert f. Kennedy. The chief executive expressed his Shock and dismay Over the shooting of Kennedy in los Angeles and told a National Televik. S Ion. Rad to audience wednesday night that violence murder and assassination must Stop. A my fellow citizens we cannot we just must not tolerate the Sway of violent men among us a he said. A we must not permit men who Are filled with hatred and careless of innocent lives to dominate our streets and fill our Homes with declaring that a i Hope Aud Pray that we can learn How to Stop it a Johnson announced creation of a 10-member com Mission to immediately examine what lie termed a this tragic phenomenon a of violence and assassination. He enjoined the commission to seek the help of medical and social scientists in searching for Root causes of violence. The panel also will study further Steps to prevent assassination and How better to protect Public figures. Commission members include or. Milton s. Eisenhower former president of Johns Hopkins University and brother of for. Mer president Dwight d. Eisenhower roman Catholic Arch Bishop Terence j. Cooke of new York and Veteran Congress members. No chairman was named immediately. During his 11 minute address the president spoke with considerable Force and intensity Fie deplored the Kennedy shooting and praised the senators a Ebril loan career of Public service a his a a uncommon Energy and Mcalilly Quot founds Florida Beach Jacksonville Fla. Apr tropical storm Abby blamed for seven deaths in Florida hurled a 65-uple-an-hour winds at Jacksonville Beach today toppling Trees and Power lines and flooding streets. Described by weather men As a poorly organized storm Abby spun North in he Atlantic near latitude 29.3 North Longitude 81.0, a Short distance North of Daytona Beach. Storm warnings and a Hurri. Cane watch were in effect from Melbourne to Charleston . Calls probe he said a we Pray to god that he will spare Robert Kennedy and will restore him to Filiti health and vigor. A the Kennedy family has endured sorrow enough and we Pray that this family May be spared More but Early today Kennedy died. Johnson said there was a connection Between hatred and Law Les Ness and the individual act of violence against Kennedy. But he said it would be wrong to conclude a that our country is sick that it has lost its sense of balance its sense of direction and common i tusks Moll Iii Paris Paris apr Public trails port began moving today throughout most of France after 20 Days of strikes and social turmoil. Paris subway and bus lines quickly reached a virtually Normal level of operation. Railroad services both Long distance and suburban started up at the North St. Lazare Montparnasse invalids and Lyon stations. Only the taxis were still absent from the streets of Paris. The Drivers Are to decide Friday whether to return to work. In View of the uncertainty of the transport situation Early this morning Many suburban Pari slams drove to work. Huge traffic jams built up and Drivers a. Geared to lose the unaccustomed patience and Good humor they had shown earlier this week. Peace talks Iii font a recess Paris apr the Vietnam ceasefire talks were bogged Down today in their longest recess so far but both the United states and North Vietnam have Given the impression that they want to keep the talks going in. Definitely. . Ambassador w. Averell Harriman and ambassador Xuan Thuy of North Vietnam talked for almost four hours wednesday in their seventh ses. Sion in four weeks made no apparent Progress toward de Esca lating the War and adjourned until next wednesday. Thuy maintained his demand that All attacks on his country must Stop before other issues Are discussed. Harriman Contin. Tied to Call for North Viet namese de escalation to justify any further limit on american military operations

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