RFK children speak about assassination in Dallas

[Ken Burch]

44. well, they didn't have actual footage of the shooting, just people freaking out in the ballroom

They wouldn't have any of the footage of the shooting aftermath in the pantry until a couple of hours later, because the cameramen following Bobby through the pantry only had film cameras, rather than video cameras, and there was a lag while the film was developed. I've read that, as soon as he realized Bobby was hit, the CBS camera guy in the pantry deliberately broke his camera so he wouldn't have to film the nightmare he was seeing, but I don't have full verification of that.

(nobody was filming Bobby at the moment he was hit...the cameras were all off because the camera crews were carrying them to what was meant to be a press conference with the candidate in another room, and had no reason to think that anything newsworthy was going to happen before then. There was a still cameraman who was shooting pictures when Bobby was actually hit, but his camera was confiscated by the LAPD, and when they finally returned it to him, the portion of the film that had captured the shootings had been ruined-while the shots taken before and after the shots were fired were just fine).

For anyone too young to remember that night(I was seven), or who was born later, there is a large collection of raw CBS video footage of the scene in the ballroom that's been posted on You Tube...an hour-and-a-half or so, in eight-minute segments(it was posted when Emilio Estevez' film BOBBY was released, and at that time You Tube had a nine minute limit on clip length).