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Martin Petrusky Testimony Martin Petrusky, a waiter at the Ambassador Hotel, was within five feet of Senator Kennedy when he was shot. He testified - at trial that “at that point we had stopped and the Senator was shaking hands with the people that were standing along the way. He started to move a little and when he got towards Mr. Perez over there he started to turn, and all of the sudden there was like a firecracker going off, then there was another one, then there was a pause. Then ali of the sudden there was rapid fire. I saw Karl (Uecker). I ducked down and I saw Karl swinging around and grabbing him arcund the neck." In response to a question of grabbing "who", Minasian replied, "Sirhan." Question from Deputy District Attorney: "Is that the same person you had talked to earlier in the evening?" "Yes sir." Petrusky further stated that he grabbed him around the neck and with hand extended, he held his arm, which at that time ycu could see the gun in his hand. (Reporter's transcript page 3387). Eyewitnesses, all within eight feet of Senator Kennedy, des- cribed his position as “west of north, walking in an easterly direction, stopped, turned to the left and back to shake hands with the kitchen help." Face-to-face position would have put Kennedy looking easterly direstion since all the trial testimony indicates that Sirhan was running into and firing into a westerly direction. Witnesses indicated that Senator Kennedy's position was facing west of north or northwest. This would logically put Sirhan's firing position to the right and somewhat to the rear of Senator Kennedy. Autopsy Report The autopsy report of Dr. Noguchi indicated on page two that gunshot wound #1 entered Kennedy in the right mastoid region in a- "pight to left, slightly to front, upward direction." {People's Exhibit 48). Gunshot wound #2, through and through, entered the right axillary (armpit) region and traveled through the right infra Clavicular region in a right to left, back to front, upward direction. Gunshot would #3 entered the right axilary (armpit) region (just below gunshot wound #2 entry), traveling through the soft tissue of the axilla soft tissue of right upper back to the level of the sixth cervical vertebra just beneath the skin in a + to left, back to front, upward position. (People's Exhibit - 27 -