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ut ( | ) Cy Ly Witnesses Enrique Rabago and Humphrey Cordero testified that they went to the Ambassador Hotel on primary election night, June h, and observed Sirhan at approximately 9:30 or 9:45 p.m. at the election night headquarters of Max Rafferty, candidate for the U.S. Senate. The two men stated that Sirhan, who had a mixed drink in his hand, remarked, "Don't worry if Senator Kennedy doesn't win. ’ That son-of-a-bitch is a millionaire. Even if he wins he is not going to win it for you or for me or for the poor people." When Sirhan paid for a drink, he gave the waitress a $20 dollar bill and told her to keep the change to "show them." Sirhan also stated "It's the money you've got that counts, not the way you look." Hans Bidstrut, an electrician employed by the Ambassador Hotel, observed Sirhan at approximately 10:00 p.m. that night at the Venetian Room of the Ambassador Hotel, which was the Rafferty headquarters. Sirhan had a glass in his hand and Bidstrut assumed that Sirhan had been drinking. Sirhan asked Bidstrut whether he (Bidstrut) had seen Senator Kennedy and how long Senator Kennedy had stayed at the Ambassador and Bidstrut stated that Sirhan also mentioned "the security of the hotel and asked about the Senator's security.” Gonzales Cepina, a waiter at the Ambassador Hotel, observed Sirhan in the Venetian Room around 10:00 p.m. on election night, holding a drink with a rolled newspaper under his arm. Sirhan asked for Cepina's assistance in moving a chair. Later, at approximately 11:45 p.m., Cepina observed Sirhan in the pantry area next to the wing + nla wrAana Tan > serving table wnere Senator Kennedy was thereafter shot. Senator Kennedy was giving his speech inside the Embassy ballroom at the time. Other trial evidence revealed that on September 24, 1966, Sirhan was injured in a fall from a horse at a ranch where he was working as an exercise boy. Sirhan's eyes bothered him for several months after the accident, and he had received $2,000 of Workmen's Compensation as the result of his injuries. During the following twelve months, Sirhan was unemployed and read a great deal at libraries and at home. Sirhan stated at trial that he “read every- thing about the Arab-Israeli situation that he could lay his hands on," including publications from the Arab information center in the United States and a book on Zionist influence on U.S. policy in the Middle East. During this period of unemployment Sirhan also became in- creasingly interested in "the occult and metaphysical," although his interest in these subjects preceded the fall from the horse. Because of Sirhan's desire to learn more about himself, he joined the Rosicrucian Society, attending a meeting the week preceding the assassination. One book read by Sirhan, entitled Cyclomancy, was described by Sirhan as follows: "The basis of what he says is you can do anything with your mind if you know how"..."how you can install a thought in your mind and how you can have it work and become a reality if you want it to." (Reporter's transcript page 4905).: Sirhan read a large number of other books in this area, some. involving "thought transference."™ One Rosicrucian article read by Sirhan taught him that if he wrote something down, he would ac- complish his goal. Sirhan testified that he had recorded various things in his notebook "with the objective in mind of accomplishing his goals...and in reference to that, the assassination of Robert Kennedy." ~11- a i ere ee