Posted on 06/05/2018 3:54:55 AM PDT by Nextrush
"heads lying in pools of blood. The calmest one in the room was Ethel (Kennedy). Robert Kennedy had a rosary in his hand, at one point he asked the people to stand aside to give him air.....there was an awful lot of excitement and an awful lot of confusion and hysteria among practically everyone here....."
NBC reporter Charles Quinn describes the scene when Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles early in the morning of June 5, 1968
"get the gun Rafer"
Radio reporter Andrew West as the struggle with assassin Sirhan Sirhan is underway
In the early hours of Wednesday June 5th (315am Eastern, 1215am Los Angeles) Senator Robert Kennedy was shot in the pantry-kitchen area behind a ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He would die almost 26 hours later.
Kennedy had just proclaimed victory in the California Democratic Primary over Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy before a cheering crowd of a thousand people.
The then cutting edge of the media was on hand as in television and the major networks of the time with two of them on air (ABC and NBC) with the third CBS rushing back on the air after an earlier sign off for the night. (24 hour television was not the norm in 1968 but the networks were on late for political coverage).
In the hours after the shooting Howard K. Smith (ABC) would offer up a commentary in favor of gun control just as he had for the JFK Assassination in 1963. Smith lived in the UK for many years ans its worth noting that the gun laws there were enacted just after World War I were also enacted in a climate of fear about Communist revolution.
And now fear of violence like the assassinations and riots in the streets in the 1960's would drive passage of a Gun Control Act of 1968. It would be a compromise not licensing firearm owners in the United States, but licensing firearm dealers for the first time.
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Sirhan is a Christian brought up by Greek Orthodox parents. He has never said is a Moslem.
I saw much the same reaction to RFK’s death in my Catholic high school and Catholic community. Since my parents though were ardent Republican and conservative by then, none of us were in sympathy with operatic displays of grief at RFK’s assassination. To us, his tragic death was yet another sign that the country had taken a wrong turn under the Democrats. Even as a first generation Irish Catholic, my mother worried far less about the Kennedys than the risk that her three sons would get drafted and sent to Vietnam if the Democrats won in 1968.
You were a few years wiser than us
But we all eventually saw the hypocrisy, corruption, unpatriotism, and PC ass kissing, and switched allegiances accordingly
Yup, no problem pointing out the racist whiteness of James Earl Ray, but Sirhan?
Naw, just a crazy guy
ABC (the only network in Santa Barbara) was rolling credits when the shots rang out. By the time they got cameras into the kitchen, RFK was already on the floor dying while there was still a struggle going on to get Sirhan’s gun.
FYI — from wikipedia
Sirhan was born into an Arab Palestinian Christian family in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. When he was 12 years old his family emigrated to the US, moving briefly to New York and then to California.
As an adult, Sirhan changed church denominations several times, joining Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches. Then in 1966, he joined the occult organization Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross, commonly known as Rosicrucians.
I remember that day well and how America’s gun owners were blindsided as the news media led the hysteria stampede for more useless gun laws.
The blame was placed on the “glorification” of violence on TV, movies, pulp fiction, comic books, guns, the NRA. Actually, in the 1960s all these were very mild and safe for kids.
So adult (still safe for kids) TV shows dumbed down to kiddie shows, movies shown on TV were butchered to remove “violence”, pulp books changed their covers, the 1968 GCA was passed, the NRA went over a million members for the first time.
The MOVIE INDUSTRY said they would “police themselves” with a joke of a ratings system and proceeded to reshoot scenes and add more blood, guts, sex to get the coveted “R” or “X” rating.
Today, TV and movies are worse than ever, showing things that would never have been shown back in 1968. Today PSYCHO is on several times a year, and I remember when it was to be shown, then the TV broadcast stations backed out at the last minute.
Mow the screen and TV is filled with far worse vile shows.
*** Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross, commonly known as Rosicrucians.***
I remember their adds in the backs of all the men’s magazines in those days.
***Mow the screen and TV is filled with far worse vile shows.***
**NOW.** To ward off the spelling nazis.
I think the key question is, what was Sirhan Sirhan doing in this country? Did he benefit from the other Kennedy’s (Ted) sponsorship of the Immigration Reform Act of 1965? Ironic if so...
My point is that Sirhan is guilty whether there are other guilty parties or not and Kennedy is publicly giving him a pass to pander to the muzzies.
Sirhan Sirhan isn’t a Muslim:
Early life
Sirhan was born into an Arab Palestinian Christian family[5][6] in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. When he was 12 years old his family emigrated to the US, moving briefly to New York and then to California. In Altadena, he attended Eliot Junior High School, followed by John Muir High School and Pasadena City College, both in Pasadena. Sirhan’s father, Bishara, has been characterized as a stern man who often beat his sons harshly. Shortly after the family’s move to California, Bishara returned alone to the Middle East.[7] Sirhan never became an American citizen, retaining instead his Jordanian citizenship.[6]
As an adult, Sirhan changed church denominations several times, joining Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches.[8] Then in 1966, he joined the occult organization Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross, commonly known as Rosicrucians.[9]
I give my parents credit for the wisdom.
All the killings and riots are by the democrats, socialists, commies and muslims. Not republicans but you would never know it by the corrupt news media.
FYI — from wikipedia
Sirhan was born into an Arab Palestinian Christian family in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. When he was 12 years old his family emigrated to the US, moving briefly to New York and then to California.
As an adult, Sirhan changed church denominations several times, joining Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches. Then in 1966, he joined the occult organization Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross, commonly known as Rosicrucians.
SO had nothing to lose by dying ...
SO ... Sirhan Sirhan was NOT a muslim as some people have stated.
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