ed ellington: first question, frank? gerald blessey: ed called on frank thackston first. frank thackston: mr. senator, who, in your opinion, riot and why? ed ellington: the question was, in your opinion, who was the person primarily responsible for the ole miss riots and why? [laughter] robert. kennedy: that wa an ieresting question. [laughter] frank thackston: who did he believe to be responsible for e ole mi riots? something provocative like that. and, of course, he ducked that. robert f. kennedy: can i just tell you a short story? my older brother was in the navy, and he was in intelligence, originally. and he was giving a lecture in south carolina. and he was telling the people what they should do if a bomb dropped. and he said there were two kinds of bombs that dropped and spread fire. one kind of fire, you threw sand on. and the other kind of fire, you threw water on it. but if you threw water on the one that you're supposed to throw sand on, it would spread it. so you had to be very careful. so he made this talk, and evidently it was a great success. and then, at t