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The following extract is submitted to resurrect long forgotten material concerning the assassination of Robert F, Kennedy. The evidence for conspiracy that it presents, regarding the assassination, speaks for itself. I do not necessarily agree that there was a second conspiracy to cover it up, as does the cited source. I believe, rather, that the obscurity of the material is a classic manifestation of Collective Denial, resulting in the seemingly irrational appearance of secondary suppression suggested here. As an example of Collective Denial by investigators, and the press, content versus coverage leaves no other logical analysis. The evidence was Too Bad to be True, and therefore "invisible" in the most literal sense. The most important aspect of the article may well be its demonstration of the power of clinical Collective Denial. That there was something to Deny is clearly stated.
Robert Sabaroff 712512445
EXTRACT FROM "COMPUTERS & AUTOMATION CONCERNING EVIDENCE IN THE RFK ASSASSINATION
The following partial text is extracted verbatim from the periodical, "COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION; The magazine of the design, applications, and implications of information processing systems.", Vol. 19, No. 10, October, 1970. a Editorial Offices; Berkeley Enterprises, Inc., 815 Washington Street, Newtonville, Mass. 02160. Advertising contact, The Publisher (617) 332-5453. Circulation audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
From the Table of Contents;
"52 THE CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY AND THE SECOND CONSPIRACY TO COVER IT UP By Richard E. Sprague
"A summary of what researchers are uncovering in their investigation of what appears to be not one but two conspiracies relating to the assassina-tion of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
"56 INDEX TO "SPECIAL UNIT SENATOR: The Investigation
of the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy" An index is supplied for the Random House book written by Robert A. Houghton, of the Los Angeles Police Department, about the investigation of the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy."
[The second listing is offered both for the benefit of researchers and to give context to references to Houghton in material excerpted from the p. 52 article, above].
[To assess the character of the publication, and a non-political, socially aware side of the nature of computer research in the public sector in 1970, there also appears an article, on P. 14, "COMPUTERS AND THE CONSUMER, by Ralph Nader").
*[The following is not and never has been Classified, and owning or showing it violates no section of the National Security Act. It is not a criminal or subversive act to view it or its contents].*
[P. 52]
[Boxed editorial preface at top of page]: "_Computers and Automation_ believes that the possibility of conspiracies of important American leaders in our times is of the utmost significance to every American - and especially to computer people, because computers can be used: to handle large amounts of information easily; to correlate the information rapidly; to prove or disprove or possibilities of conspiracy; etc. Therefore, computer people can make a unique and important contribution to society in this area. Already a computerized of analysis of information regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in underway in Washington. "Accordingly, _Computers and Automation_ is publishing from time to time articles and reports on investigations into assassinations; the major evidence; and the application of computers to the evidence. Our purpose is to present important, useful, and authoritative information in order to find out the truth. Since this subject is not receiving adequate and comprehensive coverage anywhere else that we know of, _Computers and Automation_ has taken the responsibility to publish. "No scientist, no honest man, ever refuses to consider new evidence or to correct errors. If corrections are needed or new evidence appears, _Computers and Animation_ will publish both.
"THE CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY AND THE SECOND CONSPIRACY TO COVER IT UP
"Richard E. Sprague, Hartsdale, N.Y.
"In June 1970, a group action suit was filed in Los Angeles on behalf of all the residents of the State of California by Theodore Charach, a free-lance journalist, to force the Los Angeles Police Department to make public additional information in their possession relating to a possible conspiracy in the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June 1958... "...The Charach suit...claims that another man also fired shots, and that it was likely that he, not Sirhan, was the killer. Charach, and his lawyer, Godfrey Isaac, held a press conference on Thursday, June 4, 1970, in Los Angeles to announce the filing of the suit and its withdrawal. The withdrawal was made so that the defendants would have an opportunity to assess all of Charach's findings. "The only news organization apparently that this story was the _Los Angeles Free Press_ (7813 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, California, 90036 [in 1970] in their June 12-18, 1970, issue. The news of this suit was not published in any other of the Los Angeles papers, nor distributed by the Associated Press, United Press International, or Reuters, nor published in the _New York Times_, nor published or broadcast by many other important new media...
"STATEMENTS IN THE CHARACH SUIT
"The assassin that is suggested in the suit of Theodore Charach was a uniformed security guard employed on a contract basis by the Ambassador Hotel to guard Senator Kennedy. His name is Thane Eugene Cesar, a part time employee, at the time, of the Ace Security Guard Service in Los Angeles, and a known right-wing supporter of George Wallace and hater of the Kennedys'.
"Cesar's name is mentioned in a book and in an article, both by Robert Blair Kaiser. The book is to be published in the fall of 1970. The article was published in "LADIES HOME JOURNAL" magazine in May 1970 and is entitled "RFK Must Die." Cesar is quoted in the article as saying he did draw his service revolver at the time Kennedy was hit, but replaced it in his holster because Sirhan was by then under control.
"Charach's suit says that District Attorney Evelle Younger, Chief of Police Edward M. Davis, and Deputy Chief Robert A. Houghton (also author of the book "Special Unit Senator" on the assassination published 1970 by Random House) have all purposely concealed from the people of California, without the legal right to do so, the following alleged facts:
"1. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was NOT killed by a bullet from the gun of Sirhan B. Sirhan.
"2. Another gun was fired at RFK at the same time.
"3. The fatal shot did not come from the direction of Sirhan's position.
"4. A witness, Donald Schulman, an employee of KNX-TV, SAW Cesar fire his gun while standing directly behind Senator Kennedy. Schulman saw Kennedy being hit from behind by three bullets. Schulman was interviewed about what he saw within minutes after the assassination; but he was not called as a witness at Sirhan's trial; nor was he mentioned in Evelle Younger's report to the people of California; nor was he mentioned in Houghton's book, 'Special Unit Senator.'...
"5. Karl Uecker, the maitre d' who was escorting Senator Kennedy through the pantry where he was shot, saw Cesar with his drawn gun in his hand, immediately after Uecker helped subdue Sirhan. Younger, Davis, and Houghton (asserts Charach) did not present this evidence to the jury or at the Sirhan trial.
"6. Cesar's presence in the pantry, his possession of a gun, his drawing of the gun from his holster, and his close proximity to Kennedy's back were all suppressed. Cesar was never called to testify before the grand jury or at the trial. (Houghton's book even states that there were NO security guards at the doors or in the kitchen at the time of the shooting, and that NO persons of right wing connections were in the pantry; this is simply not true.)
"7. The facts determined at the autopsy by Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi, coroner, were glossed over, changed, or not allowed to be presented before the grand jury or at the trial.
"8. One of these facts was that the fatal wound was caused by a bullet in the head, the trajectory of which was back to front, right to left, and upward. Sirhan WAS NEVER in a position to have fired on that trajectory. Cesar WAS.
"9. A second of these facts was that the fatal wound was inflicted from a distance of one inch to three inches, while two other wounds fired from the rear were inflicted from a distance of less than six inches away. Sirhan was never closer to Kennedy than several feet away. Cesar was right behind him and to his right.
"10. Dr. Noguchi started to testify about the wounds at the Sirhan trial, but was stopped by the judge.
"OTHER EVIDENCE
"The Sounds of Three Shots Recorded on Tape
"Several TV and radio network microphones were open and operating during the shooting. They were all in the Ambassador Ballroom, quite a distance from the pantry. One of these microphones, attached to an American Broadcasting Corp. TV camera, produced a live and video tape recording of the event. Researchers in New York City have examined this tape and found that only THREE shots can be heard above the noise of the crowd. "The microphone was continuously open from the time Kennedy left the podium until all the shots had been fired and for some time beyond that. The TV video tape with sound shows that there were no breaks in either picture or sound... "Now, the fact that ONLY THREE shots can be heard confirms the probability that more than one gun was being fired, and that shots from a second gun are those recorded on the tape. Sirhan's gun shots were apparently not loud enough to be recorded. If they had been, all eight of his shots should have been audible also."
(NOTE: Sirhan was firing a .22. Cesar had a service revolver).
"SOUND TEST BY THE LOS ANGELES POLICE
"Confirmation of the evidence that Sirhan's gun could not have been heard above the crowd noise from the position of the ABC microphone is presented on pages 118-119 of "Special Unit Senator," Houghton's book. Unwittingly, thus, Houghton presents evidence of a second presents evidence of a second gun, whereas he had intended the evidence to help prove there was no conspiracy. "The following is quoted from the book:
"The next day, June 20, Pena [L.A. Police Lt. Manny Pena] ordered sound level tests to be conducted at the Ambassador to determine whether a gun fired in the pantry could be heard by the stairs outside the opposite end of the Embassy Room. The two locations were approximately a hundred yards, and many walls, drapes and doors apart. "Officer DeWayne Wolfer conducted the sound tests at the hotel between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. when...there was no talking, shouting, or music to deaden the sounds of the shots... "
(Houghton's text, as quoted by COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION, goes on to give technical details of the test, how the ammunition and firing position was duplicated, etc., particularly noting measurements taken at the location from which Sandra Serrano, a Kennedy worker, claimed to have heard the shots).
"...registered no greater change than one half decibel during ANY of the tests. ...The minimum change in noise level discernible for people with normal hearing is two decibels... "She [Sandra Serrano] obviously thought, in the furor of the moment, that she heard and saw certain things which were not physically possible or did not actually occur. It happens every day. ...People ... hear something which cannot be detected by the most sensitive electronic device.
"Now Houghton is right on one count; Miss Serrano did not hear the shots from Sirhan's gun... What she did hear, however, was the sound of a second gun firing three shots... "Also, the crowd noise was present. Nearly everyone in the ballroom interviewed heard a few shoots. Why wouldn't they, if the microphones 300 to 400 feet away on the podium recorded the three shots? "In this way, Houghton, in an effort to invalidate Miss Serrano's report, unwittingly produced just the right test to prove that a gun, not Sirhan's but a second gun, was firing."
"SECRECY OVER THE RFK AUTOPSY REPORT
"The reports on the autopsy of Senator Robert F. Kennedy have been suppressed in three separate ways: first, by the judge's ruling before the trial of Sirhan; second, by attempts to silence the coroner, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, by intimidation; and third, by passing a special California law making the autopsy reports secret for 75 years. "The attempts to intimidate Dr. Noguchi are like a scene out of the movie "Z". After he told in public the results of the autopsy, he was accused of being insane and fired. He took the issue to court and won a victory, when his lawyer, Godfrey Isaac threatened to subpoena the autopsy and introduce it in court. Then the Los Angeles Police Dept. rehired Noguchi.
"SUMMARY
"To summarize, the officials of the Los Angeles Police Department have been and still are suppressing important evidence about the RFK assassination. This evidence points toward a conspiracy, with Sirhan being a patsy, toward a hotel security guard firing the three shots which hit RFK..."