European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 07, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes Fri a y. June Kennedy Dies 25 hours after Slayer s Sho rat saw 3 it i a to foot firmer rom log Ethel Mother of their 10children, who is expecting an Lith late this year an Jacqueline Kennedy widow of the late tousle haired senator 42, was the third of four Brothers of the family to ii a violent death. Only the youngest sen. Edwardm. Kennedy of Massachusetts is left to carry the political Bannerot the Kennedy clan. The senator Vas shot Down inthe Kitchen corridor of a hotel where he had jubilantly pro claimed Victory in tuesday s California primary election. The win in the nation s biggest presidential preference vote waste Zenith of Kennedy s March toward the White House. Gun control Bill passed by Congress Washington a the House passed and sent to presi Dent Johnson thursday a Crim control Bill which includes a ban on interstate mail order sales of handguns but not rifles. Acting Only a Day after the fatal shooting of sen. Robert f. Kennedy d-n.y., the House accepted after about an hour s de Bate the measure which cleared the Senate last month. Earlier Story on Page 7. In addition to Banning mail order sales of hand guns an limiting counter sales to adult residents of the state of Sale the Bill would authorize funds for police improvement allow limited wiretaps in criminal investigations and counter the supreme court by broadening the admissibility of confessions i court trials. Nobody suggested that the Bill would have saved sen. Kennedy from assassination. But the Impact of his death added impetus to the House decision to do some thing about violence by enacting unchanged and sending to the White House the omnibus anti crime Bill drafted by the Senate after weeks of debate. Minutes after the House gave final congressional approval to the ant crime Bill. Johnson in nationwide radio and television Appeal called on Congress to enact stronger gun control legis lation covering All types of fire arms. Johnson asked lawmakers to apply the same strict regulations it approved for handguns to a firearms including rifles and shotguns. Johnson. F con tinned from pugs upon our nation to observe Aday of mourning for Robert Kennedy next president directed that flags be flown at half staff fro now until the Kennedy burial. Kennedy was the same age ashis brother when he campaigned successfully for the residency eight years ago and in was a member of the Cabine when John f. Kennedy was slain in Dallas nov. 22, 1963.proclaiming this a time of tragedy and loss president Johnson declared sunday a National Day of mourning forthe slain senator. He ordered a presidential Jet to carry the Ody from los Angeles to new York Angeles authorities called a mid morning conference to consider murder charges against Kennedy s alleged As county grand jury hearing into the assassination was scheduled for Friday s widow faced the tragedy with the same stoic courage that bore Jacqueline Kennedy through the cruel Day following the assassination of the president in 1963.three of the senator s older children were flown to Kennedy s bedside in a presidential Jet from their Virginia arrived at the Hospital about two hours before their father s death in the fifth floor intensive care Salinger who had served As press aide to the lat president Kennedy and was Active in the senator s Campaign announced the funeral plans at the Hospital. He said some plans still were being formulated but added suspect the senator will buried in the plot of his brother. The plane bearing the Bod took off for new York thurs Day. The body was to lie in stat eat St. Patrick s Cathedral Friday from 8 . To 10 . A requiem mass is planned at 10 . Satur Day in St. Patrick a after which the body will be taken by train to Washington for burial at 5 30p.m. Edt 10 30 . Get saturday in Arlington National cemetery outside the nation s the funeral Jet took off a Coroner s autopsy report said that Kennedy s death was due to a gunshot wound of the right mastoid penetrating the proc a Gay eight years. When asked about the Sion Salinger said i i Elleve in win b Sii hate to use the word Cade. But i believe uial a grim faced and red eve pro pm a fils was Yorty says reds inflamed Sirhan _. __4� j los Angeles a mayor Samuel w. Yorty thursday blamed communists for inflaming accused Slayer Sirha Bishara Sirhan against sen. Robert f. Kennedy. Sirhan a 24-year-old Jor Danian was held under Maxi mum Security guarded by a Dep Uty in his jail cell while authorities moved to press murder charges against him. Contacts with reds Yorty told a news conference that Sirhan not Only was an gered by the War but it appears also that he was inflamed also by contacts with the communist party and the contacts with communist dominated or infiltrated Yorty said that Sirhan s car or one that we know he drove had been seen outside a build ing in which the . Dubois italian himself Over Frk shooting Naples Italy a a 69-year-old Man distraught Over the shooting of sen. Robert plunged off a f o u r Story building to his d e a t thursday after telling friends he was tired of living in a world full of atrocities police said. Police said the suicide do Menico Zaccone had been in a state of anxiety since the shoot ing talking about it incessantly to a sister with whom he lived and to neighbors. Early thursday morning be fore Kennedy s death Zaccone walked to the roof of his apart ment building with a chair stepped on it and leaped off. Society was meeting. Yorty said the society had been identified by the us. Justice departments a communist front. He said that evil has played its part in in Laming the Assassin of Yorty also revealed that Cali fornia atty. Gen. Thomas c. Weather isolated showers. Partly Cloudy Satur Day. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 70, Low 52 temperatures recorded thursday get 44 44 am pm 82 77 73 64 70 63 82 Adana c 75 Athens c 60 Aviano c 75 Berlin c 66 Frankfurt cd 63 London p a Clear rain. Cd Cloudy am pm 82 81 Madrid p 64 73 Munich p 64 64 58 73 61 Paris r 55 Prestwick p 64 Rome r 73 wheelus p a partly Cloudy 2nd weather Wing Lynch had told him he was worried about Yorty s decision to release details of Sirhan diary. Yorty said Lynch feared that the information might prejudice a fair trial. But Yorty said i am a and he said he did t believe it would prejudice the Case against the accused. Britons express grief to yanks by Bob Hoyer is . Bureau chief London is thousands of britons telephoned the Ameri can embassy and . Bases inthe United kingdom thursday to report their condolences on the assassination of sen. Robert f. sobbed into the Tele phone. Wherever britons me americans on the Street in Public places they expressed their sorrow. Hundreds line up hundreds waited in line out Side the embassy on Grosvenor Square to sign a Book of Condo Lences in the lobby. The Book Layon a table next to a Black draped picture of the dead was reminiscent of the queues that lined up to sign a similar Book for his brother i november 1963," an embassy spokesman said. The switchboard was flooded with thousands of Calls. Many people broke Down on the press attache Jim Pettus de scribed the atmosphere at the embassy As one of we Are completely seems unbelievable that Bob Kennedy should have followed his brother in this awful Way Pettus said. Ambassador David k. E. Bruc Esaid no word can adequately express myself and my associates in the american embassy Over the tragic murder of sen. Rob Ert Kennedy and the depth of our sympathy for his detestable occurrence rep resents another shocking exam ple of the evil and mindless Vio Lence All too prevalent in air stations at West Ruislip Mildenhall Chicksands Bent w a t e r a Wethersfield Laken Heath Alconbury. High by Combe and upper Heywot planned to hold special services or to memorialize the senator in regular services. Flags at . Bases through out the United kingdom at the american embassy and at .business establishments in Lon Don were flown at half staff. British journalists and television cameramen recorded american reaction to the assassination at . Bases. Memorial services were hellcat noon thursday at London s Westminster Cathedral. Sunday Chapel services will Honor Kennedy Heidelberg special memorial services for sen. Rober f. Kennedy Are planned in conjunction with regular sunday services in . Armed Force chapels throughout Europe us a eur and Safe staff chaplains announced thursday. In addition special and joint memorial services will be conducted at some chapels. These memorial services rein keeping with president John son s proclamation of sunday Asa Day of mourning. Leak in scorpion fixed Navy says Norfolk a. Up the Navy said thursday a leak in the scorpion s propeller Shaft that was letting in seven Gallons of water a minute had been repaired before the nuclear submarine began its ill Fate underwater Atlantic crossing. A Navy official who testified at length about the leak before a formal Navy court of inquiry apparently led officers to believe the Shaft was still leaking when the scorpion vanished in the testified the leak was not considered significant and the sub was considered Safe within its prescribed depth limit. Buthe said the scorpion lost with 99 men aboard was to have been dry docked for repair on its return to Navy Public affairs office Here later issued clarifying statement saying the leak had been reported an repaired before the scorpion left Norfolk last february for Mediterranean Maneu vers. It was returning from the Mediterranean when it vanished. With no Hope of finding the Crew alive the Navy thursday ordered the . Flag flown at half staff at its installations and on its ships around the world in Honor of the Gallant officers and men lost while serving their country in the capt. C. N. Mitchell Deputy chief of staff for the Atlantic submarine Fleet had told the court of inquiry in Washington the leaking valve around the Shaft was one of several repairs needed but said none was considered a safety Hazard. The leak in the Forward valve around the Shaft was Over what it should be but was no what you would Call significant Mitchell testified. There were two backup valves for use if needed he said. Mitchell said the Navy had not been Able to make All Safet improvements recommended after the loss of another nuclear submarine the Thresher in 1963 but had made All safety alterations on the scorpion needed for its prescribed depth is by is menus accompany body and family s presidential Jet flight to York City would be mrs Marf Lluther King jr., e w go a assassinated civil rights Lead Kennedy suffered Isreil ran damage from a .22-Caiibbullet that lodged mid ram. The Bullet co upward from the Side of head near his ear. 5 others wounded second shot struck him he shoulder and within second he lapsed into unconscious on the Concrete floor in Jato Tel Kitchen. His suspect Assassin was subdued quickly Kennedy aides but not Beta five other persons were win i one seriously. The bystanders Hurt i shooting were in improved edition scheduled to go Home a Ira Goldstein hit by a Bullet Al the left hip. Paul Schrade 30, Region director for the United an workers was reported in Prett Good shape by Kaiser found Tion Hospital. Nurses said he a conscious and Weisel 30, a newsn., for the american broadcastsco.,-,was in satisfactory Condilis at stroll 17, was in go condition at Midway Hosband mrs. Elizabeth Evans had " a Bullet removed from Scalp was in satisfactory con Tion at Huntington memorial hoi , the slaying suspect a jordanian subject was ii Lunder tight Security guard or Angeles county jail five Mirom the Hospital where Ken tier by died. It was not dispose whether Sirhan 24, was Mam immediately of the senator death. 1. A team of six neurosurgeons picked All but a Liny frag major the Bullet from Kennedy brain in a four hour operatic put the senator s Conditi changed Little through theand night until he finally us hem it not Able to build Back tissue after the = of last night and the this morning said Mankiewicz Kennedy Secretary who made the official death announcement. Relatives at bedside Kennedy s son Josephat his bedside with his Mother named for father and the Sens i o Omer in mucin. ,3and Robert jr., 14, who elsewhere in the Hospital also at the bedside Kennedy s brother Edwa. Sisters mrs. Stephen snut Mpatricia Lawford his toot Nei Law and Campaign manat a Smith and j�1 Cathedral in new announcement of senator s death came � of the City s in widens asleep. A a a nov Roun making Early Down Jug Edy for summed up tiie a Many when lie Saia. Takes the life out of Joi
