Baxter Ward, News/Wolfer/Flapp reporter, 7/5/1971

Item — Box: 128, Recording: 62

Identifier: MC1, series V, sub-series 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Includes research subject files, photographs, videotapes, notebooks and audiotapes donated by private citizens and journalists who investigated the case. Donors include members of The Kennedy Assassination Truth Committee (the Floyd B. Nelson and Lillian Castellano collection), Robert Blair Kaiser, author of R.F.K. must die!, Philip Melanson, Dan Moldea, and Greg Stone. Their research files were combined to form the “Personal Name Subject files” and “Subject files” (Boxes 125-136); other materials from their files and articles written by them are found in the “General files” (boxes 105-107) arranged alphabetically by private investigator’s name. Their collected magazine and newsclippings were also combined to form one chronological grouping (Boxes 133-146). All of the audiotapes are in boxes 127-132. These files are considered an open series and may be added to periodically.

Dates

7/5/1971

Conditions Governing Access

no known restrictions.

Extent

1 Cassettes : Digital copy available

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Materials Specific Details

Excerpts from TV news. L. 16--Don Schulman saw several guns drawn. . 70--Uecker claims Sirhan was at a distance of 2 feet from Kennedy. Uecker was first to grab Sirhan but many witnesses said that Grier and Johnson were the first. On October 15, 1968 LAPD said that there was no conspiracy--it was a clear cut case! L. 199--DA Younger interview. Questions arose as to why Sirhan's gun wasn't tested. Jury were not told all the facts. Defense brought in psychiatrist when they shoud have brought yardsticks to measure distances! About tampering evidence.