CBS News - RFK shooting - 1968-06-05 - 3:30 a.m. (E)

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[0:02] was hit at least twice I think but then

[0:04] I came to the aid of Paul shrady who was

[0:07] hit right behind him and the people did

[0:09] not see Mr shady and were starting to

[0:11] step on him and I straddled him and

[0:13] stayed there for the duration and he had

[0:16] a a head wound that may be very serious

[0:18] however he was conscious when we the

[0:20] local leader of the f c uh what North

[0:23] American uh what um was his condition is

[0:25] he was he conscious he was conscious and

[0:27] he had a good pulse but uh he had the

[0:30] bullet went in here and came out at the

[0:32] back that was not Senator Kennedy

[0:34] Senator Kennedy's wounds can you can you

[0:37] um indicate from what you learned the

[0:39] extent of his wound I didn't pay much

[0:40] attention to the senator because he was

[0:42] immediately taken over by some doctors

[0:44] and I wanted to see that Mr shade was

[0:46] taken care of because he was about 6

[0:48] feet away and then his wife Ethel got

[0:50] through and they did quite a bit of

[0:52] talking apart from Kennedy and shr who

[0:56] else was injured well there was two

[0:58] other people and they just carried one

[1:00] young fell and I don't remember his name

[1:02] but he had a leg wound what makes you

[1:05] believe that it was not a a pistol a

[1:07] revolver because there was more than

[1:09] five shots fired and a revolver most

[1:11] would have six and there was more than

[1:12] six shots fired was there just one man

[1:15] doing the shooting did you see him well

[1:16] I didn't did not see the man but I

[1:18] understand that they have caught him can

[1:20] you describe the scene in there in more

[1:23] detail well absolute pandemonium broke

[1:26] out because it was a real narrow

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