Pawel Adamowicz murder and press-cards

Mayor of Gdansk (Poland) Pawel Adamowicz, 53, was attacked on stage in front of hundreds of people while attending the Great Orchestra of Christmas charity - an annual event where volunteers raise money for medical equipment in hospitals.

Paramedics tried to resuscitate Mr Adamowicz at the scene, before transferring him to a local hospital with stab injuries, where he underwent five hours of surgery. Adamowicz died in hospital.

The assailant just like Sirhan Sirhan, will likely be convicted as the lone assassin. Everybody saw him do it and it was captured on film.The assailant paces back and forth, arms aloft like a victorious boxer, still holding the 15cm (six-inch) knife.

He grabs a microphone and tells the crowd he blames the mayor's former party, Civic Platform, for sending him to prison.

I was reading A Lie Too Big To Fail (Lisa Pease) as the stabbing was on the (Dutch) news. Some Polish spokesperson said that the killer was 'insane' or something along those lines, and then mentioned that the assailant had managed to obtain a press-pass so he could go anywhere backstage and also on stage.

At that time, I read about how some suspicious figures (like Michael Wayne and also a young woman in a polka dot dress) had been trying to get press badges or cards during the hours before RFK was shot in the pantry. That's how people, who weren't supposed to be there, managed to enter areas where only press and security would be allowed.


Michael Wayne was collecting press badges before the shooting of RFK.
He was arrested when he fled the pantry, but released shortly there after.
Pease wonders if he helped the shooters gain access to the pantry.

Then I came across this FBI memo about press-cards and badges, an item which came up when Lt. Baker was interviewed by the FBI about Jack Ruby's presence in the basement where he shot Oswald on 24-11-1963:


Baker stated that he was not aware of any loose press cards or badges


Just last November, I had a book presentation and asked a musician to help me out, he would play a live soundtrack to the short story I would read. He didn't have a badge and security didn't let him in! Now this was a small cultural event during a larger cultural festival, and it took a lot of effort to get him through security! You don't get a badge just like that, there's a whole process behind it. And, again, this was a small (25 people in attendance) cultural event, not a big political thing or a sensitive transfer of a person suspected of murdering a president.