The RFK Assassination(Remembering 1968)

6/2/08 | Self

[TXnMA]

When our CO came in, as soon as he got updated, (JFK had died by then) he asked why the CQ (by name) hadn't called him. My response was, "Sir, he's in the commo room."

The CO immediately woke the CQ up, and things got awfully noisy in the commo room for a while -- but we never (officially) heard exactly what punishment the CO had handed out.

OTOH, we noticed that, for several months afterward , that particular troop did spend most his "off-duty" time with a mop in his hands... '-)

[oneolcop]

Here's a little footnote to the RFK assassination: A friend and police partner told me that he and other LAPD Metropolitan Division officers were detailed by the LAPD to provide security for the RFK visit. They were told by the RFK staff that RFK did not want any LAPD protection. They were withdrawn from the immediate site.

The rest is history.