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June 5, 1968 PRESS, Binghamton, N. Y. 17-A RFK Moved Among Throngs With Certain Sense of Fatalism Bullet Lodged In This Area 0 By SAUL PETT Associated Press Writer Washington Among the overwhelming ironies, one rushes to mind among reporters who have covered Robert Francis Kennedy on his intensive campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. It occurred to virtually all of us as we watched the pattern. Bullet Entered Here LB Acts To Guard Others WHERE KENNEDY WAS SHOT Diagram indicates spot behind Senator Robert F.

Kennedy's ear where gunman's bullet entered the senator's head and approximate area of head where bullet lodged. ig Cal ifo rnia Wi Ends in Confusion Humphrey, who entered none of the primaries, still led in Democratic convention votes with 560Vz. A candidate needs 1,312 to win the nomination. Kennedy's victory in California enabled him to jump past McCarthy. With the 24 votes he won yesterday in the South Dakota primary, his total was 393'2.

McCarthy had 238 delegate votes, plus about 20 he won in the New Jersey primary UNION OFFICIAL HURT Paul Schrade, 43, regional officer of United Auto Workers Union, lies wounded with skull fracture received during shooting which wounded Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Scrade's head rests on Kennedy campaign hat. Ted Phones Father, Niece Informs Rose Washington IV) President Johnson ordered Secret Service protection today for all major presidential candidates and their families. Within' hours, the Senate Appropriations Committee moved to legalize the action.

In ordering the protection-al following the shooting of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the White House said that there was no specific legislative authority for the move but that the President was refusing to let legalism stand in his way. THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE then met with congressional leaders, and the Appropriations Committee attached the authority to the bill providing funds for the Post Office and Treasury Departments. The latter includes the Secret Service. Committee action was unanimous, and Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, said the entire bill, including the protection provision, will be brought up for Senate action tomorrow.

To pay for the increased protection, the committee added $2,000,000 to the voted by the House to operate the Secret Service in the year starting July 1. A TWO-THIRDS majority will be required in the Senate to approve the but Sen, A. S. Mike Monroney, Okla.) chairman of he committee's Treasury-Post Office subcommittee, saw no problem with that. The White House said Mr.

Johnson's- directive make Secret Service protection available to Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, former Gov. George Wallace of Alabama and fomer Minnesota Gov.

Harold E. Stassen. Vice-President Hubert Humphrey already has protection. N. Y.

Man Killed Buffalo (P) John Rigo, 16, was killed yesterday when the home made gocart he was driving went out of control and slammed under a parked truck on the street near his home in suburban Cheektowaga. we grieve mostly, of course, for Mrs. Robert Kennedy and Running as an unopposed favorite son, Gov. Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential primary. Wounded TV Man Feels 3 'Stings' Los Angeles (UPI) William Weisel, looking up from his hospital stretcher as he waited to be wheeled into surgery, recounted today how he had felt three sharp stings in his side and had "thought I was going to die Weisel, an assistant producer for ABC-TV news, was among those wounded by a man who shot and critically wounded Senator Robert F.

Kennedy. ABC later said that surgery on Weisel had been completed and he was "in good shape." Weisel said he had been following right behind Kennedy through a doorway into the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel, shortly after Kennedy had claimed victory in the California Democratic primary. "I thought I was going to die instantly because there was blood shooting every place." Weisel then interrupted his hospital corridor news conference to say: "They're going to operate on me in about 10 minutes bullets through my side and out my back," Invariably, he would bounce down the steps of his campaign plane and, with little protection, plunge into frenzied screaming crowds seeking to grab and tug at him. And inevitably we thought of Dallas and thought that this Kennedy-was moving among strangers with much less protection than his brother did on the dark November day in 1963. Ironically, it was a thing that he felt, according to his aides, that he had to prove: That he, Robert Kennedy, a United States senator and brother of the assassinated president, could move more freely and with more confidence among crowds than President Johnson.

HE SEEMED to do so with a certain sense of fatalism. Those who observed him closely are certain he did not relish being grabbed and pushed and mauled by strangers. It violated his sense of privacy. But he was, as Kennedys always seem to be, the all-out candidate; he would do what he thought necessary to win. He talked rarely of possible assassination or the murder of his brother.

When questioned, he would say simply he was satisfied with the findings of the Warren Commission, which investigated his brother's death. He mentioned the late president often in his speeches but it invariably was in an impersonal way. He referred to him as "President Kennedy" and almost never as "my brother" or by his first name. REPEATEDLY, as he campaigned, there were reminders of the man who campaigned in 1960, in the current candidate's stance, cadence, rhythm, Boston accent, right hand pumping, and, almost, invariably, after describing deplorable social conditions, this peroration: "I think we can do better. That is why I run for president.

That is why I ask your help." But while there were many reminders, he seemed compelled to keep personal memory at arm's length, at least in public. When, on oc- casion, an admirer in the crowd would offer him a gift memorializing his brother, an etching or quilt, he would try to pull away, murmur a hurried thanks and ask an aide to take the gift. And then there was this, and it needs to be described carefully: During the lulls in the campaign, at the end of a long day, or during a long flight before the next stop, we often noticed as he rested and finally was alone, a look of infinite sadness, of terrible hurt, in his blue eyes and taut, angulai face. MOST REPORTERS ticed this and among those who knew him well, newsmen and staff aides, there was common agreement that that look wasn't there before Nov. 22, 1963.

He was, on the stump, intensive, hard-hitting and frequently very funny, especially in a self-deprecating way that might tend to undermine his alleged ruthlessness. But away from the platform, he was a man much less inclineu to laugh. He would make jokes, listen to jokes but he, himself, seemed to laugh seldom. And when he could, even during the campaign, he would walk off alone with his-dog at night, or early morning, and he leaned forward into the wind, coat collar up, hands deep in his pockets, very much a reminder of a famous picture taken of him on the day the bulletin came from Dallas in 1963. and makes it doubtful that he could live." Somebody Is Mixed Up Edinburgh, Scotland (UPI) The new telephone directory advises subscribers to "look for late entries at the bacic of the book." Thu back of the book "AU late entries have been in- serted in position in the their children and for Senator Kennedy's mother.

'Can't Have Jackie (Mes By Press Wire Services London Jacqueline Kennedy's reaction to the shooting of Senator Robert F. Kennedy today was, "No. It can't have happened." She made plans to fly to Los Angeles later today to be near her brother-in-law. The former first lady was informed in New York of the shooting during a telephone call from London by Prince Stanislaus Radziwill, husband of her sister Lee. The princess told newsmen Mrs.

Kennedy "couldn't believe it. She kept saying, 'No. It can't have happened. Tell me She said Mrs. Kennedy ended the transatlantic conversation by saying she was telephoning Los Angeles for more news of the senator.

Mrs. Kennedy had returned to her apartment at 11:45 p. m. escorted by Roswell L. Gilpatric, 61, a New York lawyer.

She learned about the shooting of Robert Kennedy in the telephone call from London that she thought concerned her brother-in-law's victory in the California primary. Lee accompanied her husband to Heathrow Airport for a flight to New York where he is to join Mrs. Kennedy. Lee will follow on a later flight. Los Angeles (UPD Senator Robert F.

Kennedy defeated Senator Eugene J. McCarthy in yesterday's Democratic presidential primary in California before he was shot early today emerging from a victory celebration. The shooting spread confusion through the Democratic Party, which already has suffered a series of shocks this year. If the shooting should take Kennedy out of the campaign, it would leave McCarthy as the only voice of dissent against the administration, i BEFORE THE California primary, it was presumed that this most crucial primary contest of 1968 would destroy the loser's chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination. However, McCarthy had said last night, before the results were conclusive and before Kennedy was shot, that he would go on with his He canceled plans to visit Washington state today when he learned of the shooting.

Victory in California meant 172 Democratic National Convention votes for the winner, the richest harvest to be won in any of the presidential primaries. THE DEMOCRATIC primary was, a contest' between Kennedy, and an uncommitted delegate slate mostly favorable to Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey. The total with 88 per cent of the vote counted: McCarthy 1,138,108 42 Uncommitted 329,954 12 Kennedy 1,258,869 46 mm I I A I 'MM iff V(K I In Victory He Deplored Violence Los Angeles (UPD Moments before he was shot, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had deplored violence in a rousing victory statement before a throng of cheering supporters.

Then he flashed a V-for-vic-tory and stepped from the podium into a burst of gunfire. Kennedy, claiming victory over Senator Eugene McCarthy in the California presidential primary, expressed his thanks to his supporters in the tumultuous gathering in the Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard. He was smiling and waving. He particularly credited "my friends in the black community," Mexican -Americans, members of labor unions and workers in agricultural areas. "I THINK ALL these primaries have indicated it is quite clear that we can work together in the last analysis and that what has been going on the last three years, the divisions, violence, disenchantment with society between black and white, poor and affluent.

"We can start working together and I intend to make that the basis of my running. "What I think all these primaries indicated and all the party caucuses wherever they occurred it was the people in the Democratic Party and the people in the United States who want a change and that change can come about only if those delegates in Chicago recognize the importance in what happens in California, New Hamshire, Oregon. "THE COUNTRY wants to move in a different direction. It wants to deal with problems in 'our own country and we want peace in Vietnam." "I contratulate Senator McCarthy and those who have been associated in their efforts that have started in New Hampshire and carried through to here in California. "It not only got effort on the part of their own party but on behalf of the United States and people around the globe and in the next generation.

"What we are going to do in rural areas, for those who sr-fer from hunger. What is going about the rest of the globe and whether to continue the rest of the policies so unsuccessful. I do not want to and I think we should move in a different direction. "My thanks to all of you and it's on to Chicago and let's win there." Hyannis Port, Mass. U'i Former Ambassador Joseph P.

Kennedy and his wife, Rose, were told this morning that their son, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was shot early today. Ann Gargan, niece and companion to the ambassador, told Mrs. Kennedy before she attended Mass. Senator Edward M.

Kennedy the youngest son, told his father when he talked with him by telephone this morning, Miss Gargan said. A SOURCE close to the Kennedy family said: "They took it with remarkable courage." The ailing former ambassador, who will be 80 in September, sobbed quietly. His wife, 78, concealed her sorrow lest she further upset her husband. It was like living through the dark days of Dallas all over again. Mrs.

Kennedy, accompanied by a family friend, attended the early Mass at St. P'rancis Xavier Church and sat in a front pew of the church. AFTERWARDS she walked behind the altar to talk to the pastor, the Rt. Rev. William D.

Thomson. He was not aware of the shooting until Mrs. Kennedy told him. Miss Gargan said Richard Cardinal Cushing, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, was expected at the Kennedy home later today. "We're going to see how things stand a little later, and then perhaps set a time for him to come," she said.

Heavy police guards surrounded the home. In Paris, U. S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver, Kennedy's brother-in-law, said today that he and his wife, Eunice, and Mrs. Edward Kennedy," the wife of the Massachusetts senator, "are making arrange-mests to fly to the United States if necessary." Mrs.

Edward Kennedy is in Paris with the Shrivers after a visit to Dublin. SHRIVER SAID they were all "very shocked by the news" of the shooting of Sen. Kennedy. "We have been in constant touch with members of the family in Los Angeles," he said. "We have been advised not to leave France until the results of the operation are known.

Shriver said he had talked by telephone with Stephen Smith, another brother-in-law of the senator, with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and with members of Kennedy's staff. "We are all shocked, distressed, and deeply disturbed by this act of violence," Shriver told reporters, "and Associated Press WIREPHOTO. MOTHER Anxiety shows on face of Mrs. Rose Kennedy, mother of wounded Senator Robert F. Kennedy, as she leaves Mass at St.

Xavier Church in Hyannis, today. Cuba on Shooting Havana The Cuban national radio reported without comment today the shooting of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles. rSf fsB I I) He 'Might Not Make Surgeon Quoted as Saying Medical Center who reported it on a newscast. Cuneo told Pool that several major arteries were severed and Kennedy's brain suffered extensive loss of blood and oxygen as well as several blood clots.

Cuneo was quoted as saying Kennedy also suffered injuries to the spinal cord. In summation, Cuneo informed Pool that it was unlikely the New York senator "will be able to recover fully New York (UPD Senator Robert F. Kennedy "might not make according to one of the three surgeons who operated on him following this morning's assassination attempt. Dr. Henry Cuneo said that even if Kennedy lives, he might suffer extensive brain damage.

Cuneo gave his opinion to Dr. Lawrence Pool, director and professor of neurosurgery at Columbia Presbyterian TV MAN SHOT William Weisal, ABC television associate director, awaits aid after being shot through backbone of five gunned down with Senator Kennedy. Weisel was reported in good condition after undergo-.