Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Journalist Jimmy Breslin covered Robert Kennedy's assassination, in 1968, from a much closer angle; Breslin was standing 5 feet away when Sirhan Sirhan struck at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
After a desperate plea for "a doctor in the house" rang out from the podium, Dr. Miller, a trauma surgeon, rushed backstage to help. In a 1968 interview just hours after the shooting, Dr. Miller described the scene that unfolded in the minutes after the shooting to CBS News correspondent Terry Drinkwater.
"There was massive blood. And he had head injuries," Miller said, "The extent of them could not be ascertained immediately." In all, there were six shooting victims at the Ambassador Hotel - including journalists Ira Goldstein and William Weisel, Democratic activist Elizabeth Evans and Kennedy campaign volunteer Irwin Stroll. Everyone except Kennedy survived.