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THIS IS THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY TAPE WITH AN INTERVIEW JUST TEN TO TWELVE MINUTES AFTER THE SHOOTING OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY FROM AN EYEWITNESS DONALD SCHULMAN, A KNXT-TV EMPLOYEE, WHO SAW A SECOND GUNMAN DRAW HIS WEAPON AND FIRE. IT IS SURE TO BE USED IN ANY UPCOMING TRIAL ON THE RFK ASSASSINATION, SO THIS MUST GO TO A RESPONSIBLE HISTORIAN OR COLLECTOR.
KNXT-TV employee Don Schulman witnessed the second shooter Ace Security guard Thane Eugene Cesar draw his weapon and fire, hitting then-Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Within minutes of the shooting, Schulman telephoned his news station what he saw and KNXT news anchor Jerry Dunphy reported on the air while purported assassin Sirhan Sirhan was still at the Ambassador Hotel that “Don Schulman of KNXT tells us that Kennedy was shot three times.” Mr. Schulman is the only known eyewitness to Cesar drawing his weapon and firing. Intriguingly, Schulman and Cesar are the only two eyewitnesses who have stated to researchers that Kennedy was indeed shot three times and Cesar curiously told interviewers the approximate locations of Kennedy’s three wounds, information of which was known to nurses and doctors upon Kennedy first arriving at Central Receiving Hospital and then later Good Samaritan. In the California State Archives, there is a monumental recording preserved known as the “Pruszynski recording,” which proves the existence of more than one gunman. Polish freelance reporter Stanislaw Pruszynski inadvertently recorded the shooting when he left his recorder on and found out after the assassination that he had in fact recorded the shooting of Robert Kennedy. In 2004, professional forensic audio engineer Philip Van Praag analyzed the Pruszynski recording and determined that in five-and-a-half seconds, there were a total of at least 13 gunshots, including the presence of two “double-shots,” which are gunshots so close together that they could not possibly have come from the same gun, scientifically proving with audio evidence that there was more than one gunman in addition Sirhan Sirhan that fateful day RFK was gunned down. Since Sirhan only had eight shots in his gun and never had the chance to reload, five additional shots must have come from additional gunmen, not Sirhan Sirhan. Reinforcing Don Schulman’s assertion to Jeff Brent minutes after the shooting that there was more than one gunman firing, the following excerpt is from The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed by Jay Margolis and Richard Buskin, Skyhorse Publishing, 2014, p. 170 under the heading Postscript – The Second and Third Shooters in the Robert Kennedy Assassination: “One was Sirhan Sirhan and the other one was the security guard,” Don Schulman told Jay Margolis on February 25, 2014. “I was standing by the doorway. The cameraman had been standing there for quite some time, holding the camera, and they wanted me to signal them when the crowd was moving. They heard Kennedy was going to stop by the kitchen and thank some people. As he left, after his speech, I got shoved in with a lot of other people. All of a sudden, Sirhan was the man who jumped out and yelled obscenities at Kennedy and shot at him while the guard next to Kennedy pulled his gun and fired. I went out and the first person I saw was reporter Jeff Brent who interviewed me for Continental Radio about ten to twelve minutes after the shooting … I was interviewed by a lot of people. I saw what I saw. The security guard shot Kennedy. He disappeared for quite some time.” In fact, according to the FBI files, Don Schulman is certain he saw “Kennedy being shot three times. The guard definitely pulled out his gun and fired.”
CONTENTS OF THE REEL-TO-REEL 42:50 MINUTE TAPE RECORDED BY CONTINENTAL NEWS SERVICE REPORTER JEFF BRENT ON JUNE 5, 1968:
0:00 – 7:00 Commentary and crowd chanting
7:45 Interview with Pat Paulsen
8:00 Interview with unknown woman and the voice of future U.S. Senator Alan Cranston.
9:20 Interview with Frank Mankiewicz
11:00 Milton Berle addressing Kennedy supporters at the microphone
11:30 Pierre Salinger addresses Kennedy supporters at the microphone
12:30 Interview with Ted Sorenson
15:25 Interview with Jesse Unruh
16:40 Crowd Chants as RFK enters room
17:30 RFK Speech
23:20 Rosey Grier remark in speech
28:50 Speech ends, RFKs last recorded words in answer to a question about the road ahead. “It will be a struggle”
29:45 Shooting (starting during or just after the firing of the shots)
30:41 Ethel Kennedy yelling “Let a Doctor get to him”
31:00 Confusion: Kennedy shot, not shot???
34:00 Kennedy confirmed shot in head
34:50 Witness Interview of Danny Curtin
38:06 Witness Interview with Donald Schulman – “Security Guard shot back.”
40:40 Witness Interview – Gabor Kadar Announcement from stage (the voice at the stage lectern is that of David Steiner saying "there is no one else for you to see")
42:50 Witness Interview – George Green of the New Image Committee
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