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...Want Him Alive." The word that Kennedy was wounded had spread back to the ballroom. Amid the screams and the weeping, Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith's controlled voice came through the loudspeaker system, asking that the room be cleared and appealing for a doctor. Within a few minutes, physicians were found and elbowed their way to Kennedy. More policemen arrived; none had been in the hotel, but a police car had been outside on other business. Rafer Johnson and Rosy Grier turned over their prisoner and the gun. The cops hustled the man out, carrying him part...
...Minutes. ABC thus was first on the screen-at 12:19-with wobbly video tape from the murder scene. CBS's Roger Mudd, in the ballroom during the shooting, was alerted by a man who tore wildly out of the kitchen corridor, put his finger up to his head like a pistol and yelled, "Bang, bang, bang!" "That turned my stomach," recalls Mudd. He and his crew then tore their camera off the tripod and plunged into the corridor. It was a standard film camera, and so was NBC's. By the time CBS and NBC got their...
...meantime, all three networks had video tapes of the agonizing ballroom scene: Kennedy supporters with cheers choking in their throats, panicky cries for doctors, hysterical sobs and terror. ABC showed George Plimpton wrestling the gun away from the suspect, and all three networks had views of the man as he was hauled off in the custody of a wall of policemen. NBC's Sander Vanocur, who had finished his primary coverage, rushed back to work and found eyewitnesses, whom he debriefed expertly one or two at a time...
...shooting came moments after the former Attorney General left an uproarious celebration of his primary victory over Senator Eugene McCarthy in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel. Flanked by relatives and aides, he was entering a small kitchen enroute to his suite to spend the rest of the night...
...remains fearful that, at some point, the poor will really get out of hand. Abernathy did nothing to ease those fears when he told a campsite crowd: "We're going to raise hell downtown." In a more elegant setting, he told a group of business executives in the ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel essentially the same thing: "It is suicidal for any nation to develop a people who do not feel they have a stake in that society. In due course that people will rise up and destroy that nation, even though they may destroy themselves...