Broken Glory by Ed Sanders

Author:Ed Sanders
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2018-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Dr. Max Rafferty

Conservative Republican Rafferty defeated incumbant US Senator

Thomas Kuchel in the Republican primary that day

(but lost to Democrat Alan Cranston

the coming fall).

His campaign headquarters were at the Ambassador.

Two Guys Meeting Sirhan at the Ambassador

Two gentlemen, Enrique Rabago & Humphrey Cordero,

drove to the Ambassador Hotel between 9 & 9:30

to view the RFK festivities

Both were dressed in casual clothes

and therefore Rabago was hesitant to walk into

the main lobby, but did so, urged on by Cordero

There was a huge crowd and the two became separated &

Mr. Rabago returned to the “porch area” of the hotel’s

main entrance

hoping to locate his friend.

There on the porch stood Sirhan Sirhan

holding a drink

& Rabago spoke with Sirhan.

“Are we going to win?” Rabago asked him

and Sirhan answered, “I think we’re going to win.”

Rabago replied, “I don’t know, McCarthy is ahead now.”

According to Rabago to the FBI, Sirhan said,

“Don’t worry about him if he doesn’t win,

the son of a bitch, he is a millionaire and

he doesn’t need to win.

“He just wants to go to the White House

but even if he wins he’s not going to do anything for

you or for me or for any of the poor people.”

Rabago remarked to the FBI that Sirhan further remarked:

“Kennedy did not care about any poor people and merely

sought to gain the Presidency for personal reasons” and

that “Kennedy was going to buy the Presidency.”

Rabago told the FBI that at this point he was disgusted

and about to leave the porch when his pal Cordero

located him, and said, “Let’s go back into the lobby.”

Rabago felt that his clothes were inadequate, but Cordero

said to Sirhan, “Look at my friend, he doesn’t want to go

in because of his clothing. What do you think of that?”

Rabago stated that Sirhan replied, “We’re voters.

I can go in there like this.

I just returned from the Rafferty headquarters.”

Sir han told Cordero that he had gone into Rafferty

headquarters to order a drink, and those inside

had st ared at him and, in the FBI’s words,

“obviously disliked him because of his clothing.”

“Rabago advised that he (Sirhan) continued by telling Cordero

that the ‘big wheels’ stared at him while he ordered a drink

from the hostess and that he ‘showed them’

by paying for his drink with a $20 bill

& leaving the change for the hostess.”

Then Rabago (and Cordero) walked toward the

television monitor, and Sirhan

slipped out of his ken.

(Rabago and Cordero volunteered to talk with the FBI

on June 5, same day as the shooting, and this account

relies on the FBI typist for its flow.)117

A waiter at the Ambassador named Gonzalo Cabrillo

told the FBI that he went to the restroom

behind the Venetian Room,

where the Max Rafferty party

was being held.

Sirhan approached Cabrillo, and said he

was tired and wanted to relax. Cabrillo

held Sirhan’s drink while Sirhan obtained

a chair.

Sirhan was holding folded or rolled newspapers

under his left arm, according to Cabrillo.

Then later, circa midnight Cabrillo saw

Sirhan standing in front of the ice machines

in the service pantry

where RFK wd soon be shot.

Sirhan, said Cabrillo, was still carrying newspapers

under his left arm.118

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