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================================================== Page 1 ================================================== 2 of telegram to BOGGOTA LIMITED OFFICIAL USE Classification de una paz estable y de una convivencie provechosa y fecunda entre todas les naciones del orbe. Formulo votos porque vuestro gran pueblo supere esta nueva y dolorosa prueba y porque se restablezca el clina de concordia necesario para el normal desarrollo de s4 proceso democratico COmo el mejor homeneje & #en quien bus co incanseblemente el imperio de le justicia . Presento a vuestra excelencia les securidades de n1 mas elevada consideracion. Carlos Lleras Restrepo Presidente de La Republica de Colombia UNQ E END JRuste L LIMTTED OFFICIAL USE FORM 0-63 DS-322A Classification CONTINUATION SHEET Page ================================================== Page 2 ================================================== OUTGOING TELEGRAM Department of_ State SdekF INDICATE: COLLECT g CHARGE TO LIMTTEDQFFICIAL_USE 8 Classification Origin 8 ACTION: Amembassy RIO DE JANETRO |2AnnRb 14 1fz Info: STATE Please pass following message from President to President Costa e Silva : 1 QE The tragic ana untimely death of Senator Ke Robert F Kennedy has come as a great shock to all Americans On behalf of the people of the United States , I express my deepest appreciation for your words of sympathy .UNQTE 2 QE The knowledge that your countrymen share our grief 18 a source of great comfort and consolation I shall transmit your message to Mrs . Kennedy and members of the Senator' s family. Lyndon B, tax Johnson UNQTE 3. White House does not plan to release message, but has no objection to release by President Costa e Silva 4_ Following, FYT, is English translation of President Costa e Silva' 8 message to the President : M QTE In the name of the Brazilian people, I join with Your Excellency and the American people in their deep sorrow and in paying homage to Senator Robert Kennedy whose public life was always inspired by the ideals of peace and human brotherhood _ With regards , Arthur da Costa e Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil. UNQTE 'RUSki Draftod by: Tel , Ext _ Telegraphic transmission and ARA BR:RDScarforme:6/10/68 2627L_ classilication approvod by: ARA BR Mr Lewis Cloarancos: ARA Miss Regina s/s 5 Mr Parker 'fitz LIMTTED OFFTCIAL USE FORM Classification 8-65 DS-322 hnA4 ' uske ' 23} po 1 6-3 3 1 deep ================================================== Page 3 ================================================== RoL 6-2 US {Yone-4 OUTGOINGTELEGRAM 181 3 U 8 of telegram to LIMTED OFFICIAL JSE Classification ACTION: Amembassy , HELSINKI 2 Jun 68 17 |6z STATE PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM PRES IDENT TO PRES IDENT KEKKONEN: 1_ QTE The tragic and untimely death of Senator Robert F . 9 Kennedy has COme as a great shock to al1 Americans On behalf 0f the people of the United States , I express my deepest & appreciation for your words of sympathy . UNQTE 2 _ QTE The knowledge that your countrymen share our grief is a Source of great comfort and consolation. I shall transmit your message to Mrs Kennedy and members 0f the Senator's family . Lyndon B, Johnson UNQME 3 , White House does not plan to release message, but has no objection to release by President . 4 Following, is text of President Kekkonen S message to the President: QTE Deeply grieved by the great loss to the United States and to the world incurred by the tragic death 0f Benator Robert Kennedy . I extend to you and the American people my warmest sympathy . Urho Kekkonen UNQWE END Drafted Approved by: 'RuSki EUR /SCAN:RADwyer:acw X4207 EUR George S Springs teerz,icihg Clearances : EUR/SCAN Mr Ingram wl E/s Mr _ ParkexNp LIMITLD OFFICIAL USE FORM DS-322A 0-63 Classification CONTiNUATION SHEET Page Wlete 1 FYI, : by : ================================================== Page 4 ================================================== 8s k 6 - 2 #s/- 'Kuneyseaxs F OUTGOING TELEGRAM Department of State Il8 | 3 2 | 3 W INDICATE: COLLECT 3 CHARGE TO LIMITED OFFICIXL USE 8 Classification Origin ACTION: Amconsul PARAMARIBO 8 2 2 Junge 48z Into: STATE Ref; Paramaribo' s 325 PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT TO MINISTER PRESIDENT 1 QTE The tragic and untimely death of Senator Robert Fs Kennedy has come as a great shock to al1 Americans . On behalf 0f the people of the United States, I express my deepest appreciation for your words of sympathy . UNQTE 2 . QTE The knowledge that your countrymen share our grief is a source of great comfort and consolation. I shall transmit your message to MrS . Kennedy and members of the Senator 8 family. Lyndon B. Johnson UNQTE 3. White House does not to release message, but has no objection to release by Minister President. WICROFILHED ES KXXKXM VEYXYXKXXXXXKYX NYyKIu TVK HYXYYYKEYYXXXEXXXX XXGKNVNY XXHNYXYYYYXXXXKX &xxxrp XXKXXXYKXX XXYXXXXKxY KYXXYXXX Y@XXKI XXieE ExaUSK Drafted by: Tel _ Ext_ Telegraphic transmission and C+ EIR FBX;BBean :msa 6L1lL68 classification approved by: EUR Mr= ipgsteen Clearancos: S] S Mr . Parker LIMITED OFFICIAL USE Form Classification 8-65 DS-322 D/A U Plan Spp ================================================== Page 5 ================================================== Oze 6 - 2 US / Keaenabys Kerbev/- 24 6 |3 0 5 OUTGOING TELEGRAM Department of State 3 INDICATE: DcOLLECT 9 CHARGE To LIMTED OFFICIAL USE 8 Classification 2 Origin ACTION: Amembassy MONTEIIDEO 2 |un &8 11 |52 Info: STATE PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT TO PRESIDENT PACHECO: 1 QTE The tragic and untimely death of Senator Robert F Kennedy has come a3 8 great shock to al1 Americans On behalf of the people of the United M States, I express my deepest appreciation for your words of syupathy . UNQTE 2 QTE The mowledge that your countrymen share our is a source of & great comfort and consolation. I shall transmit your messages to Mrs. Kennedy and members of the Senator 18 femily . Lyndon B. Johnson UNQTE 3. White House does not plan to release message , but has no objection to release by President Pacheco . respectively 4, Following, FYI, isXqub text of President Pacheco ' s messages,dated June 5 and June 6, to the President: QTE Honrame presentar vuestra excelencia hondo sentimiento gobierno Y 9 pueblo Uruguay por alevoso atentado contra Senador Robert Kennedy manifestando nuestros mas fervientes votos por rapido y completo restablecimiento ilustre paciente Reciba vuestra excelencia las seguridades de mis mas alta consideracion_ Jorge Pacheco Areco UNQTE QTE Profundamente emocionado tengo honor presentar vuestra excelencia mas sentidas condolencias gobierno y pueblo Uruguay por irreparable perdida eminente Senador Robert Kennedy cong -cuyo fallecimiento enluta no solamente a _ Dralted by: Tel . Exh . Telegraphic Iransmission and ARA Drexfuss ARA/APU/U: ILSinders 2310 classificalion approved by: IABEJobr dloarancARA R.Eltz . 7 s/s APerker LIMTED OFFICIAL USE FoRM Classification 8-65 DS-322 grief 0 8 : stop ================================================== Page 6 ================================================== Page_2 of telegram to Amembagsy_MONTEVIDEO LIMTED OFFICIAL_USE Classification los Estados Unidos de America sino tambien a todo el mndo democratico Reitero a vuestra excelencia les seguridades de mi mas alta consideracion_ Jorge Pacheco Areco UNQTE END RUSK FORM LTMTTED_OFFICIAL_USE 0-63 DS-322A Classification CONTINUATION SHEET stop ================================================== Page 7 ================================================== DEPI_DISTRBUTIQN ORIGIN/AC TION DEP ARTMENT OF STATE 'LE_5 IIRGRAM 6L &-zx]E 5 RSIR REP A F A RA Original to be Filed in Decentralized Files: FILE DESIGNATION EUR FE NEA CU UNCLASSIFIED A-456 [NR 10 AANDLING INDIC A toR NO To Department of State FBO AID -atIz AGR COM FRB IN T FROM Amembassy LUSAKA DATE: June 12 , 1968 LA B TAR TR XMB SUBJECT Reactions to Senator Robert F Kennedy ` S Assassination AIR ARMY NA VY OSD 2022* REF Lus aka USI A NSA CIA KSc 10 3 b: Although the Embassy has already reported telegraphically on reactions to Senator Robert F Kennedy 8 tragic assassination, the account that follows and the enclosures are submitted as of possible SUGGESTED DISTRIBUTION historical interest. In general_ Zambian reactions were quick and bitter generally directed against the supposed sickness of American Ii society even against those in power. The Ambassador replied to the latter (Enclosure 8) but by June 9 most reactions had subsided _ Contrary to original fears , no demonstrations developed _ * * * * * * * * * * * * * post RQUTING The news first reached the Embassy about 11 AM, Wednes- June 5 , Action Info. Initials when several telephone calls were received requesting confirmation AmB Po DCM Enclosures 1. Clippings from Times of Zambia POL June 6 , 1968 ECON 2 . USIS News Release Memorial Book 7f ConS Opened for Senator Kennedy" ADM 3_ Clippings from Times gf Zambia, AId June 7 , 1968 43 Clipping from Zambia Mail U; JsiS June 7 1968 2 5 _ Radio Zambia News Talk 6 _ GRZ Press Release No _ 1023/68 7 . Clippings from Times of Zambia FICE June 8 , 1968 Action Taken: 8 . USIS News Release Ambassador Good S Response to Local Coments on Kennedy Assassination Date: FORM UNCLASSIFIED For_Department _Use_Onlx Initials; 10-64 DS -323 In Out Drafted by Draning Date: IPhone No. Contents and Cossification Approved by: Charge WBEdmondson 6-11-68 Clearances; 0 U. S_ GOVKRNMKNT PRINTING OFFICE 1966 0 202-219 (258) uslkr) Rsepf 20 day To: ================================================== Page 8 ================================================== UNCLASSIFIED Lusaka A- 456 2 of a South African radio broadcast that Senator Kennedy had been shot. We had no official word and could neither confirm nor deny . Pirated snatches of UPI news transmissions conveyed the story, though incompletely; it seemed that he had been hit but must still be alive A senior Foreign Ministry official called about noon and urgently requested information on behalf of the Acting Foreign Minister We had nothing we could say beyond the news reports he had already heard. Just at lunchtime a USIS Wireless File item came in reporting the shooting and the fact that the Senator was about to be operated on USIS the item as a news release . By afternoon it was clear that Senator Kennedy was critically injured and was undergoing a very delicate operation _ Local news reports the next morning were more complete than anything available officially _ See clippings Enclosure 1 Senator Kennedy S doctors were concerned at the lack of improvement things looked rather bad _ Shortly after 11 AM word was received that the Senator was dead _ Anticipating instructions from Nashington (finally received late in the day) the Embassy its at half mast , opened a condolence book and began to make plans for a memorial service _ Plans for coping with possible demonstrations against the Embassy vere also reviewed ) and it was decided to alert the police (through the appropriate ministries) of our concern that adequate protection be afforded in the event that any sort of demons tration should develop _ The Ambassador then prepared a brief statement to be released with the announcement that a condolence book had been opened (Enclosure 2) _ Shortly afterward_ Mr _ Stewart Marchand an Irishman from Kitwe, called to ask if the Embassy would object if he Were to open a condolence book in the Lobby of the Edinburgh Hotel in Kitwe We made no objection 3 suggesting only that he might find it useful to coordinate with the Catholic clergy in Kitwe, which Mr _ Marchand proceeded to do . Friday morning the independent Times of Zambia carried adverse coments by various local figures (Lusaka 2022) as well as an editorial and straight news coverage (Enclosure 3) One senior political figure expressed conviction that the murder had been masterminded by those already in power. m The government-owned Zambia Mail also covered the news but without editorial coment (Enclosure 4) From Luwingu in the Northern Province, Vice President Simon Kapwepwe was quoted as Mi calling the as_ 'Sassination "primitive, barbaric and undemocratic_ From Uganda, where he was visiting a political party meeting, President Kaunda bitterly of the loss denouncing violence in American society and characterizing this act as " the beginning of the end. M1 UNCLASSIFIED Put out flag put spoke ================================================== Page 9 ================================================== UNCLASSIFIED Lusaka A-456 3 Radio Zambia S Friday morning news commentary, prepared the evening before by its Head of News Naphy Nyalugwe 9 attributed the murder to "a society that is sick and growing sicker every M This was one of the most unfair news talks we have ever heard on Radio Zambia_ (See the full text Enclosure 5) President Kaunda returned to Zambia Friday evening and devoted most of his airport arrival speech to the assass ination, holding the United States Government responsible for inadequate protection_ (Press Release Enclosure 6) The Saturday morning Times %f Zambia (clippings Enclosure 7) reported the President S remarks and also carried most of a statement the Ambassador made earlier (Enclosure 8) to refute charges that the assassination had been schemed by 11 those in power in the U.S. A memorial requiem mass was held at St _ Ignatius Catholic Church at 5 PM June 8 attended by Vice President and Mrs _ Simon Kapwepre Foreign Minister Reuben Kamanga, and at least one other minis- plus a large number of expatriates and local people_ The Sunday papers on June 9 carried straight news about the capture in London of Martin Luther S assassin, the arraignment of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan , and the capture of a gunman at the requiem mass in New York _ No more editorial coments or other local reactions were reported _ By the time the Condolence Book was closed at noon there were some 433 entries (some covering more than one person) including a few ministers and senior officials As of Monday June 10 news media were still carrying straight news items related to the assassination and its aftermath but no editorials or other reactions the news having been eclipsed somewhat by critical local events especially the destruction by sabotage of an important bridge on Zambia S Great East Road _ Further comment and analysis will be submitted separately. EDMONDSON UNCLASSIFIED day . ter, King %68 ================================================== Page 10 ================================================== Page 1 of 2 Enclosure 1 Lusaka BANNER HEADL INE KENNEDY FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE" Times of Zambia, June 6 , 1968 'The nation was shocked py the shooting which came Blood 'only two months after the murder Of civil rights Pools of blood soaked the LOS ANGELES, Wednesday. leader Dr_ Martin Luther foor, King_and President Johnson Only seconds betore the ordered the secret gervice to shooting whlch came SENATOR ROBERT KENNEDY ree provide an immediate body- four and 8 helt years guard for all Presidential atter hls brother'& a8808- mains in "a very critical" condition after campalgn candidates and sInatlon the elated their families_ Senator Kennedy bad a three-hour operation to remove a The shooting will change promlsed tbat 98 Preel- bullet from his brain. This was stated the face Of the Presidentlal dent he W 0 ud end clectlon campaign, In whlch' volence In the United in a hospital bulletin issued ten hours he was one of the favourites States. to stand against the Re- Pollce sald later that eAften the-Benater Wagohot in thc head publlcans suspect Sirhan was Identlfed and neok at a hotel hore. through a get of fngerprints Others hit fled a8 a matter 'Of routie when Sirhan, 98 Sn MEANWHILE, POLICE SAID A MAN' 'Ihree Other men were shot epplied for a recreetiog HAD BEEN FORMALLY CHARGED WITH In the fusillade of bullets department jeb as an ASSAULT TO MURDER. HE WAS NAMD which felled Senator Kennedy. for horses. The men, ~standing_near the Four 1O0-dollar notes were AS SIRHAN SIR HAN AGPD OF Senator In the hotel 'ballroom, found on hlm, whlch mlght PASADENA BELIEVED Io HAVB BPPN were. BIIl Welzel, an associate indicate he was planning a BORN IN JERUSALEM producer Of the American getaway from the area, a Broadcastlng Company; Paul police chief sald. Hopes that the 42-year-old Senator'g life would Schrade, an ofcial Of the The suspect elso carrled a Unlted Auto Workers Unton, derogatory new8 cltpplng be saved rose with a report that the_ bullet which and Ira Goldstein, a radio about Senator Kennedy. ploughed into his head had caused no damage ta his newsmian_ According to police fles brain_ But doctors at the Catholic Good Samaritan Welzel, hlt in the abdomen, Strhan was born In the formgr wag In undetermined condl- Jordanlan sector of Jeru- Hospital warned that it would take four or five daye tlon, 88 was Schrade with a salem but had no Idea to determine the outcome of the operation. scalp wound; Goldetein, 8hot what hls nationality mlght In the and back; wa sald be. The operation was carried out about two hours and 50 to be In good conditlon In mlnutes after the gunman jumped out Of crowds In the hospital, Silent Ambassador Hotel a8 congratulated the Senator on hle There was speculatlon that primary election victory in Calfornla Over Sepator Eugeae more than one person was-In- He refused to %peak &s he McCarthy, one of his rivals for the Democratlc Party'8 Presl- volved after an eye-witness was charged; dential nomination_ Police said had cleared the owner of & car whose reported seeing a woman In had been found in Sirhan'8 Emptied revolver a polka-dot dress running to pogsession: A gun, an eight- wards an extt shouting; "We Shot 22 revolver taken from shot hlm, we shot hlm the suspect, was not regls- The assistant maitre d hotel; tered In his name. The swarthy, dark-halred gunman emptied hlg revolver Karl Uecker; told reportera The assassinatlon attempt In tha direction Of the Seaator, hltting Kennedy twlce and that he prevented the gunman was expected to bring re- wounding three other people. frlng alL eight bullets at newed demands for tighter Kennedy: federal and state controls on Bystanders hurled themgelves towardg hlm and he weg "Kennedy 'wa8 kns guna and other ` weapons hugtled away by police. Kennedy supporters clawed and hands with someono Nic Since the aseassinatlon of ecreamed at nim, shouting: "Lynch him; iynch hlm;' came through the ne his brother, the Senator hes At the Central Recelving Hospltal where Senator Kennedy said: "Someone jumpea Wp' himgelf been One of the lead- wab frst_taken, one "doctor thougnt at fret that he wa8 dead:' from the foor I 8w peper advocates of strlcter con- But Dr. Victor Barr said that when he elapped the Senator'9 fying_It might have been a trols on the sale and posges- face, calling out, 'Bob, Bob" Mr: Kennedy atirred paper the gun wa In_ sion Of armg Dr. Barr his stethoscope to Mr. Kennedy s chest and At the second shot However; strong . lobbles In heard & strong heartbeat; Then he let Senator Kennedy'8 wlfe, Kennedy fell, I quickly got 8 Congress and 'State legdo-' Ethel; expecting her Ilth chlld, uge the gtethoscope to convince headlock on the ` gunman but latures 80 far largely he kept shooting: resisted guch pressures, clalm- her that he was alive. Another eye-wltness gald that tlght controls would the arrested man ghouted: MI Infringe the constitutlonal did It for my country" 88 he rlght Of the American citizen was dragged away. to bear arms -Rtr: A-456 Negro 4> city boy 23, they leg they they key 085 Ing bag put have Ing ================================================== Page 11 ================================================== Page 2 of 2 Enclosure No . 1 Lusaka PROFILE Times of Zamb June 6 , 1968 Inheritor From then on, it seemed only a question of Iwhen would run?" whether he would to unseat the President in 1968 Or hold back until 1972. Bobby Kennedy was his brother's campaign manager when John Fitzgerald Kennedy of a myth; Hebeeaame Paitodecy_Geneso; n860 and Presidential right-arm to his elder brother who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. RFK is a Abrasive Married with 10 children , he was born in Boston, M lassachusetts, on November 1925. Though more abrasive than his brother Edward, Senator from Massachu- crusader sette and youngest member of the Kennedy dynasty, he is also more experienced and more aggressive_ He resigned as Attorney-General in Septem- ber 1964 and stood successfully in thc New York Senatorial elections two months later- He has been a staunch supporter of Negro and political civil rights: Despite his differences with the President, the question of civil rights Is one on which see eye to eye and much of the President's legislation fulfilled policies advocated by the Senator. As Attorney-General, Senator sent realist 20,000 Federal troops into 8xeordiment: sippi, in 1962 to enforce the Of James Meredith as first Negro student at the university there_ LOS ANGELES, Wednesday- He went to South Africa on a five-day visit SENATOR ROBERT F Kennedy: In June 1966 at the invitation of students of a visit which aroused sharp controversy energetic and wiry with some here. the glamour of his late brother John F_ Kennedy: is a man who had Apartheid his eyes set on the White House. He is the inheritor of a myth The Government refused to meet him and he cherished by millions of Americans made a spectacular speech branding apart- who discovered a taste for dynasty held a8 evil. when John Kennedy was President Benator Kennedy afterwards expressed con- Cern at a soclety based on the colour of and who now dream of "the the skin rather than on the ability Of the restoration:" People. He said: "This must cause a great' Bobby Kennedy, as he is generally deal ot. concern and wa8 disturbed by calied, still youthful but with grey the fact that there were many InJustlces to individuals because were black and flecking his tousled hair, is 42. not white:" His bid to his nation's highest The blue-eyed Senator once infurlated raclal office came sooner than expected; segregationlsts by prophesying that the Personal differences with President the Us would have Ite tirat Negro Presl- dent by the end 0f the Century: Johnson, although Iegen d in Aho embarked on hlo campaign, he denied Washington, did not bring on the a report that he had In effect Igsued an challenge. ultimatum to Mr: Johnson that hc would Instead it stemmed from the New challenge him for the nomlnatlon unlecs he apreed to a proposal to establleh a York Senator"s feeling that commleslon to examlne Vletnam war the Johnson Administration had not pollcy. been flexible' enough in seeking Alleging that Ine report was a distorted peace in Vietnam and that at home "leak" from the Whlte House, he sald; "Thls incldent reveale in the sharpeet the country was being torn poesible terms why the American People by dissension and racial strife. no longer belleve the: President and the In March 1967 Senator Kennedy proposed White House; why the credlbility of our an unqualified halt in the American bomb- political Ieadership has been 80 critically of North Vietnam to to initiate eroded and why It Is clear that the only peace talks: way we are going to change our Policy in Last February 8, in a widely-acclaimed Victnam is to change adminlstrations in sPeech, he attacked every major facet of Washington:"__Reuter: the Johnson Administration's Vietnam policy and called the President'& claims of progress "illusory: A-456 ia, Bobby try 20, they Rennedyissicof they gain deep apart ing try ================================================== Page 12 ================================================== Page 1 of 1 Enclosure No . 2 Lusaka A-456 News Release UNITED STA TES INFORMATION SERVICE PO: BOX 205J CENTRAL ARCADE, CAIRO ROAD, LUSAKA TEL. 73002 MEMQRIAL BOOK OPENED FOR SENATOR KENNEDY LUSAKA June 6 C 5 A book of condolences in memory of the late Senator Robert F Kennedy has been opened in the entrance lobby of the American Embassy David Livingstone Road here 9 the Embassy announced today - The American Ambassador to Zambia , Robert C . Good meanwhile issued the following statement . For Americans this is an hour of anguish and for count- ) less millions across the world a of dismay _ If senseless tragedy is to be invested with any meaning at all, we must hope that the life and the terrible death of Robert Kennedy will open the eyes of his troubled country and distraught world. He hated injustice and violence and gave a himself wholly to the quest for peace and brotherhood _ If we would truly honour him, we will do likewise memorial book will be available to those who wish to The to the late Senator daily fron 8 a.m_ to pay their respects and from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday and Sunday . 6 P.m_ 99 / 6 8 day ================================================== Page 13 ================================================== Page 1 of 5 PRESIDENT Johnson today proclaimed Enclosure No . 3 a day of national mourning for Senator Lusaka A-456 Robert Kennedy, victim Of an a8sa8- sination that has stirred the nation's conscience. THE SENATOR, WHO DED AT 1MAX (08.44 GMT) N TH GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL; IS TO BB BURID ALONGEDDE HIS BROTHER, PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY N THE ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY_ It is only four and 8 half yeers eince Preeldent Kennedy was himgelf buried in this ehrine 0t American heroee overlooking Weehington efter being_ shot dead in Dallas; Texes; by an eseesein: Senetor Edwerd Kenpeay. BDL cobQurticu: # the four brothero gropmed by thCir{ather 4 39 politicel Ofice; h dready belns #eatloned Vice-gresidendid 5o for the- Democratlc Perty&: nomination: The death of Senator Kenaed today trom an'aseesaln bullet meang that the youngeet sther; known' 08 "Ted; now the standard bearer for tbe Kennedy dypanty: He hlmgelf parrowly everted death tn 4 1984 Plane craob_ Hls back was broken and for & tlme It looked, a If he would be a cripple for life. President Johason, In hls ioleoclaroatiooi eald: 'Tho tragedy and the sengelesg Of Robert F_ Kennedy t death casts & deep ghadow o grlef acrogs Americe and acrOEs the world_ 2} He ordered that the Stars and Stripeg be fown . at ba- mast throughout the natlon, and Bet Sundey _ tbe atter the funeral as the dey of natlonel mourntng: 'The Presidene $ Jlalemenl refilected the rising concern o the nation over Jawleesness that has led to moves to curb the free sale of gung and to provide greater safety for political leaders Senator Kennedy's body wag being fown from Angeles t0 New York today In a spe- Times %€ Zambia, June 7 1968 clal jet ordered by Mr. John- gon Aboard were member8 Of the Kennedy femlly and frlends: among them the BANNER HEADL INE "THE WORLD MOURNS widows of three assagslnatlon BOBBY KENNEDY" victims Family members Included the Senator'8 40-year-old wife Ethel, expecting her Ilth child, and her three oldest children; the Senator'8 only survivlng brother; Senator Edward Kennedy;, and Mrb: Jacqueline _Kennedy, widow ot President Kennedy. Other passengers included Mrs: Coretta King, , widow Of Negro clvll rights leader Dr_ Martin Luther who wa8 agsassinated in Memphis, Ten- nessee, only two months ag0. Ethel, Edward and Jacque- line Kennedy were at the Senator's bedslde when he dled: In New York the Senator'8 body will be taken to 8t. Patrick'8 Cathedral where It will lle In state for 15 hours: A Requlem Mass, with New York Archbishop Terence Cooke offilciating,_will be cele- brated in St. Patrick'S on Saturday and It 18 likely that President Johnson and Other American and forelgn d1gpl- tardes will attend: today: dey Los Klng, ================================================== Page 14 ================================================== Page 2 of 5 Enclosure No _ 3 Lusaka 4-456 The alde, Frank Manklewlct walked glowly Into the tem- porary Pregs room get Up In the nurses' dlning hall % the hospital to make the death announcement. Looking grlm, hlg head bowed before & battery Of tele; vision cameras, he sald laconlcally: MI have 8 'atete- ment which I will make at thlietlmeen read the death Times of Zembia, June 7 1968 announcement, which beged: "Senator Robert Kenpedy dled at 1.44 a.m. today, Jupe 0, 1988. Continued trom Page 1 Sinking candidates VIce- 'Che previous pulletln On This has led to gpeculation President Hubert Humphrey Senator Kennedy, Iesued at that the motive for the killing for the Democrats and tormer 5 pm. (mldnlght ' GMT)_had was Senator Kennedy's bup" Vice-President Richard Nixon made It clear that doctor8 port of_ the Igraeli Csusedeeth for the Republicana feared the worst It gald thet reewathe Keericdy"'s politicel President Johnson announced the Senator'8 condltlon wab sceee into turmoil for the - last night that he had ordered "extremely criticel &8 to Ife:" second time in nine weeks a special 10-member commle; Asked If Benator Kennedy the arst being Pregident John- 'ion to try to fnd out why had been glnklng durlng the son'8 unexpected decision not we inflict such sufering on 1 time between the two to run for re-election: oureelves: announcements, Manklewlcz The scene is nOw more con- It will be headed by Dr 8aid: MIt wa8 not & question fused than ever in this wildly: Milton Eisenhower, 69-year; of sinklng, but of,not rlslpe: unpredictable Pregidentlal old brother of ex-President Senator Ken- race though some analysts Eisenhower; and will look Into Shortly after b elie v e the electioneering the causes control of nedy'8 death, Los Angelee moratium that has followed violence. Boricen B0 2 cbren"54 24 Senator Kennedy'8 deeth wiIl The House of Repregenta- Blehara Btrhan, give an advantage to the "ld tives is ako expected to glve keld %a Tod ootlnanivoua approval to a Bill today to for the ehootlng, control the gale 0f frearms In be automattcally chenged to the United States: murder_ The eage with whic h Inttially after belng actes- weapons can be obtained ted In 2 ptrussle @ the hoter; even by mail order ~hag been he wab accuBed of as8eult wlth cited by supporters %f the Btl intent to kill the Senator and as one of the key factors In fve other . peoplo wounded m the nation'g violence Security theirhootinciused to gpeak t In Jerusalem, the father %f pollce at e4l at fret; Leter he the man accused of shooting Ivew York are begen talking to hlg)mtero Senator Kennedy told repof- already maklng eecurity ar- getore; but not about tho ters today: I am shocked Hy rangements, like to be the Bhooting: the action of my son: tightest In 'the city'8 history, Sirhen, who has Uved Tracked down to the small for the servtce. Immedlately Calkfornle for the eest # Arab village_ of Taiyaba near after the Mass, Senator Ken- yearo was Identtded only atter Jerusalem, Beshara Salame nedy's body wIll be taken by the 222 calibre revolver used Sirhan, 52, said he wad en train to Washington for the In the shootlng had been admirer of the Iate Pregident burlel. traced to hlm: John Kennedy and felt The Senator's death wab He had four 1O0-dollar blk about the shooting of the announced by one Of hls aldee In hle pocket wben erzested Sanator_ writer and Just over 25 hourg after he and 0 tclipran: In Parix, French' to- was shot through, the head untavourable bewvcoepenator flm maker Romain Gary and neck in a Los Angelee nedy, eetd quoted Senator . Kennedy hotel &g he was celebrating hle Los Angeles Meyor 8em a8 telling him a fortnight ag0 electlon vlctory In Yorty told reporterno yebterday that an assasgination attempt 8elmornla thet en entry b 8 dlery would be made on him sooper Surgeons carrled out & three- elleged to Feaator to 8trban or "Ore: must rely On Juck, 9 and-a-half hour operation to etated thet Kennedy One Mr. Kennedy a6 remove the bullet from hl8 hed to be klled by June 5 he quoted braln; but he never regetned the fret annlvereary 0t the saying: consciousness There had beep start ot the Bbx-day Ieraelt- fears that even If he 8ur- Arab war; vlved, his facultles would be (8eo Pago 2). permanently damaged. guard" and pOllce grieved day pollce ================================================== Page 15 ================================================== Page 3 of 5 Enclosure No . 3 Lusaka A-456 Times @f Zambia, June 7 , 1968 SAVAGE ACT SHOCKS ZAMBIA Killing sschemed by those in power' he belleverl that the ayr488in THE assassination of wes # "mereenary_ Senator K ennedy was America had Iat potentlel "only what could be ex- "gecond hert Fresldent" #Iter Ms brother dohn K. Keanedy, pected from the cowboy 'The deuth Wi Kennedy of the United showo that to survive &s Pre: geveenmerar Zambian Minis- eldent of America one hxx tu} be 0 thug;' Mr_ ('hona ter of State for the In Ndola, the Chrinthlan Western Province, Mr. Church bar Joined i the Peter Chanda, said yes- mourning: "Kennedly stood (or humau terday; righto and equality for the The death wab regrettable Mr. zulv and a Jobo to bumanity. He Wes convnced tbat tbe Mur- #edy had endeared bimselt to Zamblang: Througbout Wednesdeyand yeoterdey the Timeb _ofced WOrB fooded wlth Inqulrles on te] condtion Of the Senator: Radlo Zambla interrupted Ito programmes to glve de- tallo; and fnaDy to announce bLy death yesterdey mornng. Echeduled progremmed were cencelled In the atternoon- Heplaced bysertous muslc items 0 newe trom Americe UNTPs retional secretery Mta8 Nyendwa Hr. Ohanda ad Malster wthout Port- Iolle Mc Melnea CLont sald Negroee and bed Plens to end der bad been master-mlnded tbe unsolved Vletnam war, by_those already In Idddeavert tbe Rev; Ben ulu sald; Mr; Chanda tbat Cblwale Secondary School Amerlce preached democracy teacher, Mr. Olver Munkante trom thie hill tope' yet wab seld: "Thls Ib 0 very W- tbe scene 01 "gucb 0 brutal, cvllsed act: If 1t bappened savage and unclvlllsed here the outcry wowld be tbat murder;" we stIIL Ived Jn Jungle:" V Presldent Kaunda, on blo Mles Mary Nyendwa, an errival back trom East Africe Ndola gchool" teacher, bxld the today: lv expected make 8 WWing was a culminatlon Uf speech on tbe ktlling: reclelism and activitied OI A survey conducted by the pelflsb Indlvduals who were 1 Times Ot Zambla yesterdey Hr. Funkanta bungry Ior power. revealed that Senator Ken- ohId] . and end t ================================================== Page 16 ================================================== Page 4 of 5 Enclosure No . 3 Lusaka 4-456 Times %f Zambia, June 7, 1968 PROMISE What he might have done for his BROKEN country has gone with him. His accom- plishments remain BY A and will continue to work among those who shared his an- BULLET guished desire to cure the sickness of THE BELLS toll violence a8 a political again today for method. another Kennedy, for Out of his death we a n 0t h e r American can hope for the leader whose promise emergence of a larger to m i]ion s was will to recognise and broken by the bullet end the brutalising Of one man. effects of both reck- Robert Kennedy less privilege and was not given even hopeless poverty. the brief display of Bo t h his brother; that used and begenneded bright star whose u8 & slogan for intel- short orbit never e n t leadership reached Its apogee: everywhere: "We can Some, with strange do,better We must logic, scorned the do better_ younger Kennedy for And 8O we mugt attempting to follow and quickly too, if we his brother, arguing are to* deserve thoge that agreement and who, in St eph e n imitation were Op- Spender's words: portunism: wore at their were , wrong: hea rts the fre's On the day his mind centre was extinguished, it "Born Of the gun was plain that travelled & short above all; was the while towards the white Americ & n sun, leader who held the And left the vivid trust of his country'8 air signed with their underprivileged, in- honour;" cluding the Negro minority. ig They they he, ================================================== Page 17 ================================================== Page 5 of 5 Enclosure No . 3 Lusaka 4A-456 Times of Zambia, June 7 , 1968 OUTRAGE BRINGS DISTRESS In Lagos the head of the NIGERIAN Federal Mili- tery Government Major TO ALL General Yakubu Gowon, said thet the assassination was a reckless act that deprived the American people and mankind of the Senator's AFRICA devoted, conscientious and courageous services_ From ENGLAND, Queen flli- HEADS of state through- zabeth sent a personal out Africa received the message expressing her deepest sympathy to Mrs_ news of Senator Ken- Kennedy _ nedy's de a t h with I 9m shocked and distressed "indignation;" 9} "pro; by the tragic death of your husband: send you my found Atetrees, and deepest sympathy. My greet pbock;" thoughts are wlth you Che mood was Of sadnegs and vour Lhildren in grcat bitternese at the loss Of 0 ioss, the message said: champlon of mlnority eth: Arab newspapers in the Middle nic groups In America. East while unanimous in [n the north, Klng Hassen of denc:uncing the murder dis- MOROCCO cabled Presldent 0W ned Arab responsibility Johngon from hls capital, for the shooting by 24-year- Rabat, that he wab "pro- old Palestinian-born Sirhan foundly afflicted by the Sirhan. new of the death of "The criminal may be someone Senator Kennedy, victlm of carrying an Arab nationality an odioua outrage but he was only an instru- In TUNSIA, Presideat Habib ment in carrying cut the Burguiba sent condolences crime_ one paper wrote_ to President Johnson and Meanwhile _ In AMFeI( A_ sald the assassination had Senator Eugene McCarthy "profoundly moved all called for renewed dedlica - Tunisians_ tion to the (ause of peace In Bast Africa, President: and reconciliation_ Milton Obote Of UGANDA, He said words could do little Julu g Ny ere re of to ease the anguish of the TAN ZA NIA, Kenneth Senator'9 family and the Kaunda of ZAMBIA and grief of all those who loved: Vice-President Danlel Arap him:-~Reuter Moi of KENYA endorsed a resolution in Ka m p a / & expressing "great shock" at the news: Newapapers In Kenya tioned the U.S: jaw that P e rm it s felon or manlac to any frearmi he wants: and your ques- any buy ================================================== Page 18 ================================================== Page 1 of 1 Enclosure No . 4 Lusaka ZAMBIA MAIL, June 7 , 1968 DEATH OF A SENATOR Los Angeles, Thursday THE United States waS plunged into mourning today by the announcement that Senator Robert F. Kennedy bad died from bullet wounds suffered last night: As news of his deathb cir- morning it will be taken by culated around the world train to Washington and then messages of sympathy to his nearby Arlington for burial: family from leaders of maqy And Lus Angeles police said pations were flooding in; today that Sirhan Sirhan In a statement President accused of shooting Senator Johnson high tribute to Kennedy would bc charged the dead senator probably with his murder as soon a5 the his bitterest political opponent Tears necessary formalities were in recent months and said: completed. "Our,public life is diminished Outside the hospital women In Kampala, today Presi- b"Directong that the Sters and burst into tears when the death dents Milton Obote of Uganda, Stripes be flown at half-mast was announced_ But the crowd Julius Nyerere of Tanzania throughout the United States of about 1,000, who had kept Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia and at American posts overseas an all-night vigil, did not re- and Vice-President Daniel until the time of ,the senator's peat the emotional scenes im- Arap Moi of Kenya.endorsed a interment; President Johnson mediately after the shooting resolution expressing 'great declared next Sunday as' a day when people screaming 'pray shock' at the death of Senator of mourning. for him; pray for him went Kennedy down on their knees in the The resolution, passed una- "The tragedy and senseless Ambassador Hotel foyer: nimously by 3,000 delegates, violence of Robert F.Kennedy's Later it was announced that observers and guests at the death casts a deep shadow of Senator Kennedy will be bur- opening ceremony of the an- grief across America and ied in Arlington National Ce- nual conference of the ruling across the world, said Presi- metery where his brother;, the Uganda People's Congress, dent Johnson in a proclama- late President Kennedy, was sent heartfelt condolences to tion issued at the White House interred following his assassi- the Senator's widowv and the minutes after the announce- nation in November 1963. Kennedy family_ ment of the senator's death. The body 0f the dead senator In Luwingu, Northern Zam- "This is a moment for all would leave here later today bia, the Vice-President, Mr Americans to join hands and on a jet airliner provided by Simon Kapwepwe, described walk together through this the White House Members of the assassination as ''primitive, dark night of anguish into a Senator Kennedy's family_ barbaric and undemocratic" . new dawn of healing unity, he friends and members of his And in Lusaka, the American said: staft will be aboard the air- Embassy announced that a As Senator Kennedy died at craft; book of condolences in mem- 0844 GMT yesterday his wife In New York the senator' $ ory of Senator Kennedy had Ethel, expecting her cleventh body will be taken to St` Pat- been opened in the entrance child_ and other members of rick $ Cathedral where it will lobby 0f the emhassy at Davidl the Kennedy family were at lie_in state for 15 hours_ After Livingstone Road_ his bedside in the LOs Angeles 2 Requiem Mass on Saturday Th? book will be available Catholic Good Samaritan Hos- to the public from 8 am untfl pital 6 pn and from 9 am until Even had he lived, the chan- noon on Saturday and Sunday. Ces were that he would have been cruelly disabled by the bullet that tore through his head and damaged his brain. A-456 paid ================================================== Page 19 ================================================== Page 1 of 3 Enclosure No . 5 Lusaka 4-456 6.6 .68 News Talk American violence Senator Robert Kennedy is dead a victim of the wave of violence that is today gripping the body tic of America_ The unguarded words of Jacqueline Kennedy have proved to be correct _ On hearing that Robert Kennedy intended to run for Presidential elections she said: "But he will be killed- The question is why should Kennedy follow Mr _ Evers , his brother John Malcolm X, and Dr Martin Luther all known political figures who were assassinated within the past five years? The answer is that violence has been a part of the American way of life, but only recently has it reached such gigantic, menacing and horrifying proportions_ Whereas youth in other societies have been fed on fairy tales the young in America are fed on films of horror and violence _ They are not shocked any more at violent deaths or of a murderous killing. For many youths in America killing looks like a heroic deed. A gun represents violence whether it be a gun or a real one_ America today condems a murderer but at the same time it loves murder_ Further, large sections of the American society are ruled by gangsters _ Gangsterism in America is part of Business today_ Mafia which is worth millions of dollars today is a glaring example Violence begets violence . Even if it seems to be impulsive, it builds up over a time The United States is confronted with a rising tide of violence both individual and collective 9 actual and potential_ Senator Kennedy' s murder did not intrude from outside into American life_ It grew directly out of it_ It fits into and highlights the social and political context in which it occurred. Violence permeates the American social life on many different Levels _ In none has it abated during this decade _ In all it has become intensified. Such has been the increase in violence that adult murders in the first quarter of last year increased by twenty-three percent _ Last year there were nine thousand murders in America compared to less than two hundred in Britain_ Life has become so cheap for murderers in the United States that even national figures cannot escape their bullets It would have been expected that after the assassination of the late President John F Kennedy , there would have been a national shakeup of the Police force and the security forces But no thing was done and more fell victims Another significant fact is that none of the murderers have been brought to book _ President Johnson has appointed a ten-member Commission to investigate means of ending violence in Amnerica_ But it is too late_ American society is wide open , between the rich and the poor between the whites and the Negroes > between those for and against the war in Vietnam_ 4l1 these are symptoms of a society that is sick, and growing sicker by poli King toy Big long split day . day ================================================== Page 20 ================================================== Page 2 of 3 Enclosure No . 5 Lusaka A- 456 Senator Kennedy s murder can be seen as a horrible example of social contamination with violence It was carried out in a country charged with the electricity of violence _ It was not just an unfortunate incident as some would have it_ Nor was it inevitable _ It was highly selective Kennedy was a marked man. Ile represented an idea_ He was a person ; and many regarded him as an enemy _ He was opposed by those who wished everything to stay as it is That was the effect and the underlying social motive America has prided itself as a democracy with complete freedom. A new freedom has been added freedom to kill and away If the President and candidates for Presidency are not safe who in America is safe? After the killing of Dr . people asked who is next? Now with the slaying of Senator Robert Kennedy people ask who is next ? Will it be Senator McCarthy or another Negro like Brown or Stokley Carmichael? * * * * * * * * * $ * * The world is in a grip of rigid shock at the dastardly and cOw ardly shooting of the popular American Senator Robert Kennedy in a hotel in Los Angeles yesterday after his election victory over Senator Eugene McCarthy in the California Presidential primary _ The shooting has plunged the United States and many peace-loving countries of the world into a state of gloom and despair especially as it comes exactly two months after the slaying of one of the most distinguished leaders for the cause of Human Rights and dignity the American civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther It was a savage act, unspeakable and has really tarnished the name of America_ It is indeed a travesty of everything America stands for Only seconds before the shooting Senator Kennedy had promised that as President he would end violence in the United States _ Senator Robert Kennedy energetic and wiry with some of the glamour of his late brother who died at the hands of an assassin, is 2 man who had his eyes set on the Presidency of the United States - Bobby Kennedy , as he is generally known_ still youthful but with grey flecking his tousled hair, is forty-two_ His bid to the Presidency of the United States came sooner than expected_ It stemmed from his feeling that the present administration was not flexible enough in seeking peace in Vietnam and that at home the country was being torn apart by dissension and racial strife- He resigned as the country S Attorney General in September 1964 and stood successfully in the New York Senatorial elections two months later. He later became the champion of the liberals As Attorney General he sent twenty thousand federal troops into Oxford Mississippi in 1962 to enforce the enrollment of James Meredith as the first Negro student at the University there _ He went to South Africa on a five-day visit in June 1966 a visit which aroused sharp controversy there _ The Vorster Government refused to meet him but he made a spectacular speech branding key get King, again Rap King. good gain deep ================================================== Page 21 ================================================== Page 3 of 3 Enclosure No. 5 Lusaka A456 apartheid as evil_ He later infuriated racial segregationists in the United States by prophesying that the United States would have its first Negro President by the end of the century_ On March the sixteenth this year he decided to enter the election race for the Presidency of the United States and was already showing promising signs that he would turn out to be the next President of the United States _ His victory in Los Angeles where he was shot was another step in this direction but even before the Presidential race , Senator Robert Kennedy had become the most popular American politician on the American political scene His popularity was rather an unusual phenomenon in modern America where one can observe the falling of prestige and a lic interest to statesmen and political leaders on the whole _ In recent years hundreds of articles have appeared in the American press attempting to explain the popularity of Senator Kennedy . Many authors of these articles are of the opinion that Robert Kennedy personifies a new trend in American tical life connected with the awakening of an interest in tics among wide sections of the American youth _ His popularity among the youth is compared with the popularity of the Beatles _ But the main reason for Robert Kennedy S success among definite American sections is his disagreement with the policies of the present leadership of the American Democratic Party Some link Kennedy S name with the hope that the United States could still be extricated from the tempestuous waters in which it finds itself as a result of the government S adventurist policy_ The sharp divergence between Senator Kennedy' s views and those of President Johnson both on matters concerning foreign policy and domestic problens are grounds for such expectation. yet pub_ poli poli ================================================== Page 22 ================================================== Page 1 of 2 Enclosure No _ 6 Lusaka A-456 PRE33 R Lil % NO, 1023/.68 PRES TDENT KLGNDL 3.C4 YROM KENY K AIND UG ^NDL President Ksunda errived in Luscka this evening cfter his seven-day state visit t0 Kenye and Tgenia _ 1t the International Lirport he told" 8 large gethering of people who canle to welcone hin that he had 2 very successful visit t0 Kenye The President said everywhere he had on1e he had received warn welcone and that in one part of Kenya: he had been nade Sheik Arab Chief in renenb erance of #hct the 'Le.gbizn Governnent had done in helping t0 quell the Kenye/Soilelia b order despute. President Kaunda said t hat in Ugende he cttended 0 conference which WzS siuiler t0 Nulungushi Conference_ lhis conference, he said Wc 8 als0 sttended by President Joro Kenyatta and it W28 decided that Ugenda Peoples Perty, Tangenyika [Tricen Netional Union United Nationel Independence Pc rty and the ruling party of Kenye should be called The Mulungushi Club On the death of lafe Senator Robert Kennedy 2 President Kaunda said the sad world hcd lost one of this gener tion S outstanding , dynenic end young leaders _ "We nust iake our view Inowz t0 the hlericen Governnent 9 (f he seid. "We fail to understand that lezders Oi th?t type S first it wes John Kennedy 2 sec ond Nertin Luther King 9 cnd nQW Kennedy can b e 2ssa8sineted ct al1 Dr _ Kcunda went 01 to 82y th:t he 2W very strcnge pettern where outstanding leaders with 8 lot t0 coiltribute to the world could only be protected "hen t hey were de: d. " heer that there were 500 police officers &t the irport 9 JX he said only to receive 8 derd body _ We hzVe 3 right to cQHlplain because we believe that in t he persons of Joh Kennedy 9 Mertin Luther Mi King and Robert Kennedy we lost fleil Fho will never be repleced at al1. President Kaundz sid he did not understand how the Kennedy fanily Wou ld perticipete 1i2 the [erican politics beczuse there wa s only one of then reneining 1OV _ 3oby ================================================== Page 23 ================================================== 2 of 2 Enclosure No . 6 Lusaka 4-456 "We regzra those people who strike et the international problens a8 our friends, he scid, 'Boby Kennedy was one of the few American leaders who identified hinself with the poor_ For 2 rich nan to cone down and speak the voice of the poor is not En ezsy t hing to achieve _ In welcoing the President , Vice-President Kapivepwe said he W2s very happy to see hiz back hoile . He said although there hed been 2 strike at Kcbwe zino #ine and at Kitwe, where teachers went on strike, there hed_been a general. quietness in the country. He thanked civil servent s , nenbers of the party and the general public for their co-operation during his ab sence. Knong the distinguished guests who C ?mle to welcone the President were the Speaker of the National Asse_b Mr _ W . P , Nyirende, the Minister Without Portfolio, Mr _ 3 _ Chone , The Com _i3sioner 0f Police, Kr, B _ Mataka, the Mayor of Lusaka: s Councillor W Banda , Chief Justice Blagden , the Connander Zemb ia Aruy , the Cofinander Zenb ia Air Force. $ Llany Governlent Ministers , Governnent officials, and cenber8 of the Diplomatic Corps . GSP /LsG . Press Section, Public Relat ions Divisi Zambia Informetion Services. June 1968 8.30 P-I Page Ly , top O1o ================================================== Page 24 ================================================== Page 1 of 2 Enclosure No . 7 Lusaka Av BANNER HEADLINE "WEEPING THOUSANDS PAY LAST TRIBUTES" Times of Zambia, June 8 , 1968 Alan Paterson MORE TH} NEW YORK, Fridey: and grim-f nourners an hour filed 'Senator Ro the closed coffin Of filedisgeeaied nnedy in St Patrick'8 Cathedral today. In less than six hourg after dawn, when the magsive doors Of the cathedral swung open to admit them, more than 25,000 people were estimated to have passed the black-draped catafalque where the coffin Prosecution worried A long procession of grieving mourners of ell ages, races and religions, and many different The gleriff gald ' Sirhan wes "very_reserved and totally nationalities, wound back from the doors around non-committal" In conversation. He added that the the heart of Manhattan for over a dozen city prisoner had requested and was given newspapers Some blocks: The que hour by hour; of them headlined the ghooting of Kennedy and others Hundreds waited all night to pay their last carried tha report of the Senator'8 death: The sherlf said there wag no vigible reactlon on Slrhan'9 part when tributes. Those arriving during the morning had he read the papers: to wait up to three hours to in. Slx unlformed guards are keeplng & round-the-clock Mothers cradling bables, children, blind men, elderly survelllance on Sirhan, wlth one deputy actually In the cripples shuffling forward on crutches and young stud- cell with him: Another watches through & gless porthole ents, many weeping openly, fled sadly paet; in the stzel dojr and four others patrol the corridor: Relatives and aidzs ofthe dead Senator and sters Seventeen eyewitnesses are to glve testImony later and celebrities from all walks 0f life took turng In today on the killing, a8 publlc officials querrel over the keeping 30-minute vlgils around the , mahogany cofiln; releage of' evldence about the accused a88a88ln. flanked by,slx yellow candlee Among _ honour The witnesses were called before the Los Angeles tero "Mr, Keppody $ 'two 'Oldebt gons; #aoroua 5one38 Grand from whlch lawyere hoped to gecure & murder and 14-yeer-old Robert; who stood head bowed, hls hapar Indlctment agalnst the 24-year old Jordanlan refugee: on tha comn during hls halt-hour watch: Among expected wltnegse8 are Negro Okymplc New York'8 Mayor John Llndsay: paylng hlg tribute: chempion Rafer Johneon and football star Roogevelt embraced the Senator'8 widow, Mre. Ethel Kennedy, ena Greer who plnned down Sirhan moments after Benator told her In broken tones: "God ble8g you; Mrg Kennedy Kennedy was ghot In the head In a kltchen of the 4o_ expecting her eleventh child Jn mid-January.' Ambassador Hotel; TThe 42: year- ld Senator8 body wag Hown here yeb- Lewmen , who belleve have an alrtlght case terday from Los Angeles where he dled from an a8888- egainst Sirhan voiced concern that gtatements made by Sln'8 bullet In the braln yesterday morning. It wag bleg- Los Angeles Maypr Sam yorty mlght damege the ro- ged in the cathedral by New York'9 Roman Cathollc secutlon case by jeopardlelng the eccused' e legel rlghts | Archbishop Terence Cooke. Throughout the borrowing At & Press conference, Mr_ Yorty eald there wes "nc city flags flew at half-mast: doubt" about Sirhan'& Communlet eympathled and blamed Ofcial mourning in New York will continue tomor- the Infuenc} of Communism for the crime: row and Sunday, when the nation will obberve a dey of In the assa8sinatlon Investigetion, police heve natlonal mourning decreed by President Johnson: out an all-polnts alert to locate the whlte glr] 1n 8 After requiem mass tomorrow, Senator Kennedy'9 polka-dot dress thought to heve been accompllce_ Of body wlll be taken by train to Washington, where & Sirhan: Police got the tlp from Mts8 Sandy 8errano, & funeral cortege will take him through the heart Of the Kennedy youth worker, who gld ghe 8aW & young woman capital to Arlington Natlonal Cemetery. runnlng from the sCene Of the crime, 8houting, "We ehot Meanwhtle, Sherlff Pitchess reported thet about 10 him, we ahot him. threets egalnst the lfe of Kennedy' & euspected aseagslp Sirhan Sirhan, have been gent to the sherif8 depertment 9ince th} kllling: He told reporters that most, megsagee sald they would kill Sirhan or shoot hlm whtle he wag belng taken from the Jail to the court house. lay: grim grew get Jury they today Put ================================================== Page 25 ================================================== Page 2 of 2 , Enclosure No . 7 , Lusaka A-456 of mourning replies to for RFK today By Times Reporter PRESIDENT KAUNDA has rapped the American Government for its failure to schemed Reotecso a person when it can send off thousands of troops to meet_his body: And Zambia is to observe today &8 & fying at half mast, a9 & protest to America and its peort charge By Imes Reporter COMMENTING on a murder Of the Senator; the c /a im that Senator gecond of the Kennedy family to dle by the.hand of a gun- Kennedy's killing was man In fve years schemed by "those in Presldent Kaunda sald: "It Power, the American Is gad to see that the world Ambassador to Zam- has lost thls generatlon'8 leader; All that we have about bia, Mr.' Robert Good, "And Jet's be Ialr enough this young man Is that he was 8a i d yesterday that to admlt that the charged one Of the few people who as8a8smn was not Oved ap "those in power" stood Amerlcan, but 2 torelgner, Identified themgelves with thc shattered by the loss evidently agltated by an poor; Iesue havlng nothing et aII At the tlme of his death of a great humanitar- to do wth Americen he weg Identifled with the 'ian and leader. domestic problems: 9} poor people "It is rare that Mr. Peter Chan d &, Americang were accuced you fnd & pergon from & rlch Western Province Minleter 9 . belng , recklege with tbe Tamlly become what Kennedy Ot Sta t e, made the Hves 0f thelr emlnent men, had been: consplracy D} statement on 16 wab tragtcally trqe The crowd stood up to Thursday: 'that greater controls and obgerve 8 minute's silence In Mr. Good replied that protection mubt be devleed, memory of Mr. Kennedy, Senator' K e n n wag dbe ambaosador gald: Dr_ Kaunda sald: "We fall essassinated by jrrational "our candidates take to understand thls klnd of end gengeless hate and vlgorous and torthrlght We have & rlght to pro- vlolence which knew no stands on controvereial test to the American Govern- b 0 u ndary and wab the begueg: They gtve them- ment and Its society for the comm 00 enemy 01 ell colves to tbe publlc, 88 world' 8 log8 of three jrre- people: Kennedy wlthout stet pleceable fgures Its true that there to "No other great porer Dr. Kaunda reminded thc a0 omlnous rlslng , tide 0I bas ever conducted Ita srowd of the dedicated work volence Ia Amertce, but polltical debatee wlth more_ of Mr_ John Kennedy, the beto bo bonest enowgh to candour and complete' American President asgassin- 9} accegb to_the publc ' ated four years ago, who was The Roman Cetbolic; the older brother of Mr. Cburcb 1o to conduct Robert Kenncdy and of Mr_ memorlal service {or the' Martin Luther King, the civii late Senator at 6 pm: to: rights leader felled by a morrow at 8t. Ignatlous eniper'8 shots two month8 Church It wes announced: ag0: He sald the world falled to gee what part the Kennedy family, now left with the youngest s0n, Mr. Edward Kennedy, would play In Amerlcan life. AMBABIADOR quuv Meanwhile, the British Hlgh Commissioner has cancelled 0 dm/ $ tpat te trend 8 reception in honour of the towardo vlolence Ie the Queen'9 Birthday followlng more omlnous becauee It Jo the announcement by Presk- world-wlde and not Just k dent Kaunda that todey Amerlca;' Mr. Good would be a national of' 0n, mourning for the late Senator Kennedy. Day Envoy_ %killing living day and edy thing: did, went day ================================================== Page 26 ================================================== Page 1 of 1 Enclosure No _ 8 Lusaka 4-456 News Releaso U n |T E D S T A T E $ IN F 0 R M A T / 0 N S E R V | ( E P.O. BOX 2053 CENTRAL ARCADE, CAIRO ROAD, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA TEL. 73002 LUSAKA 3 JUNE 10 The following statement was issued June 7 by American Ambassador Robert C Good in response to a request fro the 'Times of Zambia T; for his reaction to published ccmments on Senator Kennedy S assassination_ "The brutal assassination of Senator Pobert Kennedy has horrified the world, and America above all As an American I am aghast at 2 hideous act that again has caused my nation to suffer an irreplaceable loss In the face of this outrage 9 which has blighted the United States 5 Americans cannot be other than deeply ccntrite. But we 2lso have 3 right to ask our friends to be fair. It is true that there is an ominous rising tide of viclence in America_ But let uS be honest enough to admit that the trend toward violence is the more ominous because it is world-wide not just in America_ And let us be fair enough tc acknowledge that the charged assas8in was nct even an American but 2 foreigner_ 9 evidently agitated by an issue having nothing to do with American domestic problems at all_ We are accused of being reckless with the lives of our eminent men . It i8 tragically true that greater controls and protection must be devised_ Yet the other face of this weakness is 3 profound strength which Americans rightly cherish_ Our political competition is open_ Our candidates take vigorous and forthright stands cn controversial issues They themselves to the public, as Kennedy did 9 without stint_ Nc other great power has ever conducted its political debates with mcre candor and openness and complete access to the public. Kennedy was not killed by 3 conspiracy of ithose in poweri: who today stand shattered the loss of this great huanitarian and leader. He was killed by the irrational and senseless hate and violence which know nc boundary and are the common enemy of us all. 101/6 8 give at ================================================== Page 27 ================================================== oRigin/ACTiON DEP ARTMENT OF STATE Rm/ ARa+o R REP AF ARG RA Ml k-h %s] fenveoy , RsReaJRM usEonly ARA EUR FE LIITED OFFICIAL USE A-652 NEA CU INR No. AANDLING INDIC To DEP ARTMENT OF STATE PTCEIVEO Kw 10 a'T FBo AID 1L_2 Jux |3 W7 PH 8j Pr AGR com FRB FROM Amembassy SANTIAGO DATE: June ' 12, 1968 inT LAB TAR SUBJECT PR Members Express Condolences Over Death of 72 TR XmB AIR Senator Kennedy REF ARMY CIA NAV 24 J Enbtel 3969 reported that Radical Party (PR) leaders were a notable Osd USIA NSA 3 exception in the stream of visitors that found its way to the Embassy , 34 10 Consulate and Residence to express condolences, consternation and sympathy over the death_ of Senator Kennedy - In the interim_ however , several PR notables including Senators Hmberto Aguirre Dooian and Raul Juliet as well as others have in fact either called personally at the Embassy or telephoned or telegraphed their regrets _ This airgram is to correct the record. KORRY LIITED OFFICIAL_USE FOR DEPI_USE ONLY FORM 62 Ds 323 In Our Drafted by: Contcnts and CTassificarion Zpproved By: POL:NESinn: je 6/10/68 MESinn Clcarances: 6 MI

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