European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. April 21, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 7 Frk assassination photos burned la police files on 1968 slaying opened Sacramento. Calf. Api a scholar who pushed fur it Law of the Robert f. Kennedy a Wassana. Lion files was the or by disclosed destruction of 2,410 evidence photographs is deeply suspicious and should be mar Utica de. Crew Stone a University of Wisconsin political scientist who has devoted years to studying the assassination said he was shocked that tuesday s opening of the files also brought word of destroyed evidence. Far and away the blinding Central fact in this event ii the unbelievable destruction of these photo graphs " said Stone. Thai is an outrage and an insult to 1hc Amoni an Public. This performance by the us Necles police would be a disgrace in a routine Auto  this is deeply suspicious he added. Stone s comments came after California Secretary of slate March ring eur opened the Long secret files to the Public and displayed significant items of evidence for reporters. She held aloft u boned ,22-Calibcrgun used by convicted Assassin Kirtian Sirhan to kill Ken Nedy on june 5, 1968. After his Victory in the califor Nia democratic presidential primary. Among the documents displayed was a certificate showing that 2,410 police photographs in the assassination Case were burned on aug. 21, 1968. The state s chief archivist John bums who Cata logged the massive file far release speculated that the destroyed photos could have been duplicates but said the files contain no such statement. Less surprising said Stone was confirmation that police also Dextro cd door jambs and ceiling tiles from the Kitchen of the los Angeles ambassador hotel where Kennedy was gunned Down. Stone and other experts maintain those items might have shed Light on How Many bullets were fired and on a theory there was a second gunman the Loi Angeles police commission should investigate this he said referring to a civilian oversight Board appointed by the mayor. Mayor Tom Bradley should demand it asked Why he thought the material was destroyed. Stone said the most charitable interpretation is total ineptitude. But you can t Rule out suspicious and sinister possibilities by.  up pow san. Robert Kennedy lies wounded clutching Rosary brads Afler the shooting ills wife Elhel is Al to lift. Stone once worked for rep. Allard lows Stcin d n.y., who raised questions Aboul he Case before he. Too was slain by a gunman in 1980, William Booth a los Angeles police department spokesman said he did t know Why the photographs and other materials were destroyed. It was 20 years ago and 1 certainly Don t have any Independent recollection Booth said. "1 Don t know whether what was done Here is routine at not because 1 Don t know what was done  cop unsure emergency Call important Sacramento Calif. A a los Angeles police department radio log from the night Robert f. Kennedy was shot was released tuesday show ing that the officer who look the initial Call was unsure whether the Mailer was important. The speakers on the tape recording which was made available As part of the voluminous file on Kennedy s 1968 assassination were not identified. The following is a partial Exchange by a woman caller and a male police officer. Woman this is the ambassador hotel. The have an  policeman whal kind of emergency woman " Don t know. Some kino1 of an Emer gency. You know we have or. Kennedy Here policeman big Deal woman Brief pause i think somebody was  policeman of  woman you want me to find out More policeman yes a  woman pause lasting several seconds senator Kennedy has been shot policeman he s been shot woman thai s right. You d better Send some one  policeman what s the address there apparently unaware of the location of one of the largest hotels in los Angeles. The radio logs reflected conversations which continued throughout the night. Even after officers had arrived Al the scene one of them radioed senator Kennedy has been shot at the ambassador and a dispatcher responded senator who it look about 20 minutes before the information appeared 10 be straightened out and a dispatcher announced to All cars the shooting was of senator Bob Kennedy. The suspect is in  Sirhan a jordanian immigrant who scribbled in his diary Frk. Must die is serving a life term Al sole dad prison. Sirhan says he was the Lone Assassin but can i remember shooting Kennedy. He blames his am Nesia on alcohol. The material released on microfilm tuesday details interviews with 4,000 witnesses including Doicus of eyewitnesses and comprises ,000 pages. Eur also released a police composite videotape of the assassination scene. Kennedy is seen entering the Kitchen surrounded by a Large crowd. Screams arc heard. The badly jostled camera then shows Kennedy lying in a Pool of blood while other victims stagger about dazed and witnesses Are seen weeping. The assassination occurred before presidential candidates were provided with secret serv ice Protection. Documents show that once Kennedy was inside an ambulance the senator s wife Ethel demanded that attendants keep their hands off of him. One doctor who attended Kennedy in he Kitchen complained about Kennedy being taken to Good Samaritan Hospital a Central receiving Hospital rather than a private facility with specialist for brain injuries. But another doctor said it a Wise to choose Good Samaritan which was Only three blocks from the ambassador. A targe portion of the newly released police inter views focused on the allegation that a girl in a polka Dot dress was seen with Sirhan Al inc hotel and ran away from the assassination scene shouting we shot  the Repon was never verified but the files show that Many witnesses claimed to have seen a woman with Sirhan that night and one described a White dress with Black or deep Violet dots. Ruling rejects use of courts by families of mias Richmond a. Up a Federal appeals court tuesday said families of american soldiers missing in Southeast Asia cannot use the courts to conduct an Independent inquiry into the whereabouts and treatment of their relatives. Thc4th . Circuit court of appeals noting thai its interference in the Mia situation would simply place too Many actors on Ihu diplomatic stage ordered a lower coun to dismiss the lawsuit initially brought by a former army prisoner of War and an Active army sergeant. The plaintiffs who were later joined and then replaced by relatives of Ameri can personnel lost or missing in Viet Nam Laos and Cambodia filed the class action suit against president Reagan inc Secretary of defense the Secretary of slate and the director of the . Defense Ilell Genee Agency. The Case was heard in the . District court for the Eastern District in Fayetteville . The plaintiffs wanted the court to order Reagan to comply with the terms of the hostage act which requires the president to Lake slept o obtain the release of prison ers unjustly deprived of Libony. While the three judge panel acknowledged the pain suffered by families of mias in shied away from entering into foreign negotiations the desire to account for american service personnel still missing after the Vietnam War runs  the court said. Such an accounting would go far in heal ing the wounds which remain from that difficult chapter in our nation s history. We must however be mindful of the constraint our Constitution places on the judiciary. Our system of government confines each Branch to a limited sphere. No one Branch of our government can cure nil ills and institutional hubris is More Liecty than not to result in new and greater  the court indicated hat the vagueness of the hostage act suggests thai con Gress intended the president to cd cruise Enuta discretion and intended to fore close traditional judicial review " the court also noted that it lacked cd a cruise in such negotiations the political branches have worked for years since the end of american involvement in hostilities in soul heal Asia to obtain a full accounting of miss ing americans from foreign govern  the panel said the courts which Lack even the limited tools of diplomatic leverage Are unlikely to be More successful in obtaining information from those