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Young RFK Drive Boosters Join Mourners SEE STORY BELOW Sunny, Hot THEDAILY HOME Sunny and hot today. Late cloudiness tonight. Partly Red Bank, Freehold cloudy, cooler tomorrow. I Long Branch 7 FINAL (See Details Page 2) Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 89 Years VOL. 90, NO. 240 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1968 TEN CENTS Thousands Pay Tribute to Kennedy NEW YORK (AP) - Thou- was waiting in the gray dawn second of his family to occupy its polished surface as though tive of Jordan,, said to have nists. A party spokesman gram to end hatred and vi- plane erect, seemingly com- sands of persons from all walks light when the massive doors to the White House. reluctant to say a final fare- been inflamed by hatred of Is- claimed the assassination re- olence in America. posed, managing even a fleet- of life filed past Robert F. Ken- the old cathedral swung open Many in the line were Ne- well. rael. A former employer of Sir- sulted from a conspiracy of An autopsy report disclosed ing smile at one point. nedy's body as it lay in state at 5:41 a.m. Some had been groes. There were also a num- . A candle burned at each cor- han has suggested that Robert that Kennedy died of "a gun- There was Mrs. John F. Ken- "blatant white racists and war- today before the main altar be- waiting through the night.' ber of nuns and two young cou- ner of the catafalque as friends Kennedy's support of American shot wound of the right mas- nedy, reliving the nightmare of neath the towering twin Gothic In solemn and somber mood ples who had attended a prom and relatives of the Kennedy aid for Israel could have been hawks." toid penetrating the brain." a winter's flight nearly five spires of St. Patrick's Ca- they filed by the dark red wood among the early crowd. Some family began a constant vigil, a factor in his assassination. Legislation authorizing Se- Chief Medical Examiner Thom- years ago from Dallas to Wash- thedral on Fifth Avenue. closed casket in final tribute to of the mourners, particularly four at a time in half-hour Los Angeles authorities also cret Service protection for all as T. Noguchi of Los Angles ington beside the casket of her A crowd of about 1,000 per-the 42-year-old Democratic sen- women, kissed the coffin and shifts, around the bier. sought for questioning a young major presidential candidates said fragments of a .22-caliber slain husband. sons, many of them teen-agers, ator who had aspired to be the ran their fingers slowly across In the early hours of the woman who wore a black and was sped through Congress, bullet "reached about the cen- Finally, there was Mrs. Mar- night Sen. Edward M. Kenne- white polka dot dress re- and the House completed ac- ter of the brain." tin Luther King Jr., who made dy, the sole surviving son of portedly seen with Sirhan be- tion on a crime-control bill The presidential jetliner that the flight to LaGuardia Airport four in his family, had kept fore the shooting. Inspector Pe- which includes a ban on the brought Kennedy's body east aboard the presidential 707 jet watch over his brother whose ter Hagan said a youthful Ken- mail-order sale of handguns. from California also bore three with the others. Less than two life was taken, as was the late nedy campaign worker claimed But President Johnson was ask- women consigned to widowhood months ago Robert Kennedy President John F. Kennedy's to have seen such a woman ing for even tighter curbs on by the stealthy marksmanship had flown south to console her by an assassin's bullet. run from the scene yelling the traffic in firearms. of assassins. and to attend the funeral of her "We shot him!" Under the shock of the sec- There was Robert Kennedy's husband, shot down in Mem- The cathedral a Manhattan phis, Tenn., by an assassin still landmark for 89 years was The Communist party of the ond Kennedy assassination in wife, Ethel, mother of his 10 children, expecting an 11th. She at large. closed to the public at 7 o'clock United States called false a less than five years, the Poor had been with her husband The casket was in the for- last night while workmen on charge by Los Angeles Mayor People's Campaign in Washing- ton shifted its focus to urge a when he was shot, was beside ward part of the plane and scaffolding prepared the great Samuel W. Yorty that Sirhan vast national educational pro- him when he died. She left the (THOUSANDS, Pg. 3, Col. 5) nave for Roman Catholic funer- was associated with Commu- al services scheduled for 10' a.m. Saturday. Then Robert Kennedy's body Hughes Sets Sunday Observance will be taken by train to Wash- ington for burial at Arlington National Cemetery where his brother the late President Ken- nedy rests beneath an eternal flame. Robert Kennedy was shot State Day of Mourning down early Wednesday as he celebrated his California pres- By The Associated Press planned or that prayers would nor's mansion in Princeton University authorities have idential primary victory at the Flags throughout the state be offered for the senator at was canceled. toned down the festivities for Ambassador Hotel in Los An-will fly at half-staff until Mon- Sunday services. At Princeton University, a the annual alumni weekend, an geles. day as New Jerseyans pay trib- Steven's Institute of Technol- special memorial service was 88-year-old tradition. The alum- ni parade and alumni-varsity He died in Good Samaritan ute to the memory of Sen. Rob- ogy in Hoboken postponed the conducted by Dr. Carl Kaysen, ert F. Kennedy. graduation of its 552 seniors director of the Institute for Ad- baseball game have been can- Hospital there at 4:44 a.m. celed. Faculty forums and par- EDT yesterday his brain Gov. Richard J. Hughes de- from Saturday morning until vanced Studies, and Dr. Rich- clared Sunday as the official Monday evening. ard Lester, incoming dean of ties, however, are still sched- pierced to the core by bullet uled. About 5,000 are expected PASSING SEN. KENNEDY'S CASKET — Two lines of persons filed past Sen. Rob- fragments. day of mourning in New Jer- A reception honoring New faculty and an economics pro- ert F. Kennedy's casket in St. Patrick's Cathedral early today. The casket is at- sey to conform with President Jersey artists scheduled for fessor. Both were personal to attend. Being held in the slaying is friends of the senator. Informed of the senator's tended by four friends of the Kennedy family. (AP Wirephoto) Sirhan Bishara Sirhan 24 a na- Johnson's proclaimed day of Thursday night at the gover- mourning for the senator's death Thursday morning, death. Hughes said: Gov. Hughes also said he Stores May Close Here "I'm upset I can hardly say would attend Sen. Kennedy's anything. Oh, God bless us." funeral Saturday at St. Pat- RED BANK — Stores here may be closed tomorrow Later, in a formal statement, Teen-Age Ex- Campaigners rick's Cathedral in New York during the Kennedy funeral. the governor declared that the City. The Retail Trade Bureau of the Red Bank Community assassination should be a sig- Houses of worship were Phamber of Commerce issued a recommendation to its. nal to "resolve anew to attend to; the business of America. thronged with mourners Thurs- i members asking them to remain closed two hours. Opening day. "Let us turn from hate to Going to Kennedy Funeral time will be 11 a.m. There was no indication from the reconciliation, from violence to Church leaders around the Chamber of how many stores would follow the recommenda- order, with new dedication tc they plan to establish a permanent organization of high state said that either special By DORIS KULMAN memorial™ services had been tion. (See MOURNING, Pg. 3, Col. 4; \ A group of Rumson and Fair Haven teen-agers are go- school students to work for candidates supporting the ideals tag to St. Patrick's Cathedral today to mourn the man they he championed "as our personal, living memorial." cheered. Eric Edelman, 17, of Fair Haven, coordinator of tha The young people, all Humson-Fair Haven Regional Kennedy high school volunteers, said students from other High School students, had canvassed for Sen. Robert F. communities will be welcomed. "A continuing group as a memorial to him is the least Carrier in Long Branch: Kennedy in New York, and a week ago were seeking primary write-in votes for him here. For them — and for the high we can do," said Mary Ready, 16, of Rumson, "he died a school, volunteers for Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy — the first marytr. It's our job to see he didn't die in vain. taste of politics has turned bitter. • "I didn't feel the reality of his death until a few hours The local student volunteers for both candidates • see ago when I went into my room and there were all the posters City's First Negro Fireman martyrdom in Sen. Kennedy's death. His assassination has of him," she said, "it was the worst thing ... I hope his Strengthened their determination to be politically involved — death will help our country realize something must be done LONG BRANCH —Juntos E. and to change the face of politics in the nation.

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