CBS News - RFK shooting - 1968-06-05 - 10 p.m. (E)
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[0:01] [Music]
[0:47] this is an Ivor Johnson Cadet 22 caliber
[0:49] 8 shot revolver 2 1/2 in Barrel which is
[0:53] operated either
[0:55] by uh just pulling the trigger or by
[0:58] cocking the hammer and pulling the
[0:59] trigger
[1:00] uh it's not a particularly good gun it
[1:02] retails at
[1:05] $30.95 uh we sell this gun basically as
[1:09] a Sportsman's
[1:11] weapon uh which is used as a plinking
[1:15] gun as something to take into the woods
[1:17] that you really don't
[1:18] care whether it becomes uh worn or not
[1:23] it's definitely not a target pistol it's
[1:25] about
[1:25] the minimum in a 22 caliber weapon
[1:30] that was the kind of gun that shot
[1:31] Robert Kennedy this morning it turns out
[1:33] over the years that the people who shoot
[1:35] people don't care if it's much of a
[1:38] gun this is a CBS News special report
[1:42] the shooting of robf
[1:45] Kennedy good evening I'm Harry rezner
[1:48] CBS News is as we have been all day
[1:51] standing by for special reports from Los
[1:53] Angeles in Washington on the condition
[1:55] of Senator Robert Kennedy it was 3:15
[1:59] a.m. in New York 12:15 in Los Angeles
[2:02] Eugene McCarthy having sort of Conceited
[2:04] the California primary had gone to bed
[2:07] Robert Kennedy had talked to his
[2:08] supporters and was leaving the ballroom
[2:10] of the Ambassador Hotel by a service
[2:12] Corridor he was shot two or three times
[2:15] by a man who emptied an 8 shot 22
[2:17] caliber revolver wounding five other
[2:19] people they are not in serious trouble
[2:22] Senator Kennedy is a man was grabbed at
[2:25] the scene 12 hours later identified as
[2:28] Sheran Sheran 24
[2:30] born in Jordan charged held on
[2:33] $250,000 bail the charge at the moment
[2:36] is attempted murder a team of doctors