Path: noao!stsci.edu!merrill
From: merrill@stsci.edu (Clark Merrill)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: What RFK said at San Fernando college in 1968
Date: 7 Mar 1995 22:36 EST

 
This took a little work, but I finally found it. 
 
I searched numerous papers from the first week of June in 1968.  I was
unable to find a mention of San Fernando College in June in any of
them.  I finally resorted to reading a book called 85 days about the
85 days of the RFK campaign.  It mentions San Fernando College once in
reference to a trip in late March 1968.  So I found what I was looking
for in three newspapers as an AP wire story, and in the London times
case, the direct observations of a writer for the paper.   He was doing 
an in depth piece for the Times on each of the US presidential 
canidates.  
 
the following is the AP story: 
 
Questions to Kennedy on assassin 
 
Los Angeles, March 25 (AP) - Senator Robert Kennedy met a barrage of
questions today on whether if elected President he would open the
United States archives to reveal details of the assassination of his
brother, President John Kennedy.
 
	"I would not reopen the Warren Commission report".  Mr.
Kennedy told students at San Fernando Valley state college.  "I have
seen everything that's in there.  I stand by the Warren Commission."
He did not elaborate on whether he would open the archives.
 
	Several times the senator,  campaigning for the Democratic
presidential nomination, tried to ignore questions from students.  He
became obviously more distressed as they persisted.  Finally, he said:
"your manners overwhelm me.  Go ahead, go ahead, ask your questions."
 
	A student shouted: will you open the archives?"
 
	Mr. Kennedy said:  "Nobody is more interested than I in
knowing who is responsible for the death of President Kennedy."
 
	An aide said it was the first public statement of this kind.
The Warren Commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald alone assissinated
President Kennedy. 
 
End of story
 
There it is.  If I had the right date to start out with it would of
taken me 15 minutes, instead of probably 5 hours.  This is the same
college that he was supposed to of said this on June 3rd.
 
So in the same question and answer period he says that "Nobody is more
interested than I in knowing who is responsible for the death of
President Kennedy." and "I have seen everything that's in there.  I
stand by the Warren Commission."
 
So unless someone can give me a reference from 1968 of him saying, "I
now fully realize, that only the powers of the Presedency will reveal
the secrets of my brother's death", I am going to assume that John
Davis in "The Kennedys" got it wrong.  After all this quote came from
the right place and on the right subject.  The quote is just the
exact opposite of the reported quote and on the wrong date.  I also can 
find no evidence that he was at San Fernando College on June 3, 1968.
 
I hope this helps somebody.
 
Clark Merrill
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland
merrill@stsci.edu