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WO oo, Several of these eyewitnesses have stated that Senator Kennedy had turned slightly to his left to face busboys, and was in the > process of shaking hands with them at the time that Sirhan ap- proached Kennedy from the east. One eyewitness, Boris Yaro, has described Sirhan as lunging toward Kennedy with his gun firing. In order to accept the possibility of a second assassin, it would be necessary to accept the fact that a second gunman fired the fatal - shots into Senator Kennedy from only a few inches away, thus consistent with the autopsy and muzzle distance tests performed by Dr. Noguchi and DeWayne Wolfer. The various advocates of conspiracy theories and two-gun theories have often differed in their approaches and themes of two- gun controversy. Yet, only one person in the pantry has ever been documented as possessing a second gun that was drawn during the time following the shooting of Senator Kennedy and the victims by Sirhan. This other person is, of course, the security guard, Thane RPiiawans Paucar wham hu hia Pei a) efstamant 34 nugene Lesa, widm oy nis own Statement, and the eyew. tEness testimony of other persons present in the pantry, was described as Slightly to the rear and to the right of Senator Kennedy during the time of the shooting by Sirhan. Supposed ccntradictions between the autopsy report and the eyewitness testimony are highlighted by the two-gun advocates when they quote the testimony of Karl Uecker, the assistant maitre d', who stated while witnessing the shooting, that "There was a distance of at least 13 feet between the muzzle of Sirhan's gun and Kennedy's head." Richard Lubiec, an independent television producer, has also said, "The muzzle of Sirhan's gun was 2 feet to 3 D feet away from Kennedy's head." No one has subscribed to or proposed the concept of an invisible gunman, so the unobserved second gunman, assuming that he existed, would have had to have stood immediately and slightly behind Senator Kennedy, giving the gunman access to the Senator's right temple and armpit area. Assume for arguenndo's sake that Thane Eugene Cesar had been a second gunman and he had fired his gun either with premeditation or accidentiy. The Senator’s body position, and the body position of other victims, at the time of the shooting, rebut the possibility that Caesar could have shot the Senator in the right temple and in the right armpit. Eyewitnesses observed Kennedy in the process of turning his body toward the busboys, .giving Sirhan an onrushing view of the right temple and right area of the shoulder pad and armpit. But assume that a second gunman stood directly behind and to the right of Kennedy at the time of the shooting. To have fired the second gun, it still would have been necessary for him (Ceasar) to have pointed his gun directly to Kennedy's head and fired it. Neo one has ever reported such an observation. Even Donald Schulman in his contradictory statements in 1968 never identified the pathway or the direction from where a second gun had been allegedly fired by a security guard. Moreover, the ballistics examination and test results conducted by the ballistics panel in 1975, proved that for a second gunman to have shot any of bullets 47, 52, or 54 the second gunman. would have had to have shot a weapon with the exact same imperfections, same muzzle defects, same leaded barrel eceonditions, and same individual and gross characteristics as the weapon used by Sirhan. Additionally, this second gunman would have had to use the Same type ammunition, firing at approximately the exact same moment as the Sirhan weapon was being fired. WJ —- 3&8