</s>FD-302 (Rev. 4-15-64) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 1 Date 6/21/68 WILLIAM EVENSEN, Co-Chairman, Young Professionals for KENNEDY, was interviewed at the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of California, Los Angeles Campus. It was interviewed by the Young Professionials for KENNENDY is made up of young working people who were not students. He furnished the applications made by all members of this organization and a roster listing who were no members of these of all members and a rooster listing the names and addresses of all names and a roster listing being maintained in the Los Angeles file. A review of the applications for the name JAMES TED revealed the name of JAMSHID TADJIKIJI, 1841 North New Hampshire, Number 9, Hollywood, California 90027, telephone number 655-3527, EVENSENS advised that he is not familiar with this name and cannot say whether this person was or was not identical with STIRHAN BISHRAH STIRHAH. EVENSEN said that he was on the stage of the Temple Isaiah, 1035 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, when Senator ROBERNEVER, KENNESSEE, Los ANGELES, about that, when President ROBERT KENNEEVER, does not recall seeing anyone ressembling SIRHAR and further stated that there were between 50 and 75 people on the stages, so that if SIRHAW was there, it is unlikely that he would recollect seeing him. EVENSENSEN observed a photograph of him has ever seen before. does not recognize a photograph beyond. but was not at the Ambassador Hotel on June 4, 1968, but observed was the assassination of Senator Kennedy by television in New York. He said that the following individuals are believed not to have been at the Embassy Room at the approximate time of the assassination: THAD HEATH. THAD OLYMPIAD STREET. 3668 Olympiad Street Los Angeles, California 9003 Telephone 652-8441 6/20/68 at Los Angeles, California Los Angeles 56-156 6/26/68 -668 - File # SA RICHARD P. DOUCETTE/ASI 6/28/68 by Date dictated This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions on the PBI. It is the property of the FBI. It's the property the FBI and is loaned to your agency, it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. 2025 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176

The investigation into the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy revealed various individuals and events related to the case.

On May 20, 1968, a reception was held for Senator Kennedy at Robbie's Restaurant in Pomona, California. Officer VERN ALLEN MILLER recalled that there might have been an incident where two women were detained momentarily as though they were being checked for tickets.

Officer WILLIAM H. SCHNEID stated that he was stationed inside the restaurant and noticed a girl standing by the kitchen door on the west side of the building. He told her she could not go in there, but later saw her on the stairs with a man, who resembled SIRHAN BISHARA SIRHAN.

Officer CARL P. JACKSON recalled that Senator Kennedy stopped momentarily on the stairs and pointed at Officer SCHNEID, saying "Let them through." He also stated that he saw a girl being detained by two persons at the foot of the stairs.

Mrs. BEVERLY BRONS attended a luncheon and rally for Senator Kennedy at the Lakewood Country Club on May 28, 1968. She described an individual who resembled SIRHAN BISHARA SIRHAN as sitting on a serving table side while Senator Kennedy spoke.

L. CHARLES BARON, a worker at the Lakewood Democratic Club, stated that he and his wife were present at the luncheon and rally for Senator Kennedy on May 28, 1968. He described various individuals who attended the event, including FERNANDO HERNANDEZ, but did not see SIRHAN BISHARA SIRHAN.

On June 13, 1968, Mrs. BRONS was shown slides depicting scenes at the luncheon and rally for Senator Kennedy on May 28, 1968. She stated that FERNANDO HERNANDEZ appeared to be identical with the individual she saw at the rally who she thought might have been SIRHAN BISHARA SIRHAN.

DON GRAHAM, a nominee for Congress, was contacted and advised that he had talked to a woman office worker whose name he could not remember. The woman had told him that Senator Kennedy would be killed.

DIANE VANDERBOF, the head office worker at Senator Kennedy's campaign headquarters in Santa Rosa, California, stated that she had talked to DON GRAHAM about an incident where someone had taken a shot at Senator Kennedy in Eureka, California.

LLOYD EVERETT WALKER, a race horse owner and trainer, observed a photograph of SIRHAN BISHARA SIRHAN and advised that he could not identify the individual. However, he stated that there was an exercise boy who resembled SIRHAN at the Golden Gate Fields Race Track in Albany, California.

EDWARD VAN ANTERP was located at the home of EARL COBB and furnished information about his past employment and activities. He claimed to have never worked on a horse ranch in Norco, California, or lived with SIRHAN BISHARA SIRHAN.

Various other individuals were contacted and interviewed as part of the investigation into the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

EDWARD VAN ANTWERP was reinterviewed on June 18, 1968, regarding his association with Lee Harvey Oswald in 1966. Van Antwerp stated that he became fully convinced that "SOLI" and Lee Harvey Oswald are identical after viewing a published photograph of Oswald.

Jerry De La Vega, a Yellow Cab driver, appeared at the FBI office on June 9, 1968, and reported an incident involving Senator Robert Kennedy's assassination attempt. On June 1, 1968, De La Vega was driving his cab when a man asked him to take two juveniles to the Hilton Hotel to give flowers to Senator Kennedy.

Fred Cannon advised that he overheard a bartender at the Sheraton-Wilshire hotel say that he had been accused of serving at a victory reception for Senator Robert Kennedy and later shot at the senator.

Janos Radvanyi, Charge D'Affaires of Hungarian Embassy in Washington, D.C., from 1962-1967, volunteered information about the Middle East. He stated that the Syrian Communist Party was the center of Communist Party activities in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan in 1958.

David Eugene Kates, an inmate at Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP), made available a letter to the FBI on June 7, 1968, suggesting that he had information about Senator Robert Kennedy's assassination attempt. He stated that he became associated with Max Stross and Mickey Belford while a student at Orange High School in California.

Kates described Stross as a white male American, early twenties, five feet seven inches in height, 190 pounds, heavy build, sandy brown hair, medium complexion, and an only child. He described Belfort as a white male American, five feet ten dark eyes, in height, 170 pounds, early twenties, black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion, medium build, two older brothers.

Kates was received at OSP on July 17, 1967, from Oklahoma County for robbery and firearms. He admitted that while he was an inmate at FCI, Englewood, Colorado, in 1964, he wrote two letters threatening to kill President Johnson.

The investigation into the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy revealed various individuals and events related to the case.

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