"Oh no! No! Don't. . . !" --Robert F. Kennedy, on being put into an ambulance
"Get a doctor! Get a doctor! What is America coming to?"
"Some people beat the guy's head and began tearing at his hair." --Paul Houston, Times reporter, describing attack on Sirhan B. Sirhan
Los Angeles Times file photo
Above, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, beaten after shooting Robert F. Kennedy. Police scuffled with the crowd to protect Sirhan, The Times says.
"Some people said: 'Kill him, don't let him get away.' "
-- Pat Murphy, Ambassador Hotel security guard
"As Kennedy was borne on a stretcher from the hotel to an ambulance, people pushed near him, some of them crying. The senator's shirt was unbuttoned and he appeared to be conscious and alert.
"But by the time he arrived at Central Receiving Hospital he was bundled up in blankets and wearing an oxygen mask.
"He was taken into an operating room and moments later a priest entered the hospital."
Larry Harnisch. The leading Black Dahlia expert and a collaborator in the 1947project, Harnisch has been a copy editor at The Times since 1988. He has appeared on many TV shows discussing the Dahlia case, notably "James Ellroy's Feast of Death."
Join him for a spin through old Los Angeles in the Mirror's radio car. Keep your eyes open for Mickey Cohen and Tempest Storm. It's quite a ride.
The reporter's badge belonged to Sid Hughes (1908-1958), legendary reporter who worked at nearly every newspaper in Los Angeles.
Keith Thursby. Keith has been an editor at The Times in news, sports and design since 1986. The Rams moved to St. Louis on his first day as assistant sports editor of the paper's Orange County edition. He grew up in Norwalk and lives in Irvine.
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