Testimony from Bobby Beausoleil's Trial
Beausoleil, questioned by his attorney, Leon Salter:
Q: Did he say anything to you at that time?
A: Yes. He asked me if anything was bothering me.
Q: What did you say?
A: I told him there wasn’t anything bothering me but that I had been thinking
of leaving.
Q: And what did he say?
A: Well, he got mad...
Q: What did he say then?
A: He said that I knew too much about several underaged girls that were there
and where the camp was and about him killing a Black Panther. And he said I knew
too much generally.
Q: Did he then say something to you?
A: Well, we had started-he started driving again. He was still talking and
telling me that I knew too much about stolen dune buggy parts and different
things like that. And that when he said that he didn’t-he shouldn’t let me
leave.
Q: Will you tell the jury what he said, or threats he made?
A: He told me that he shouldn’t let me leave-or should I say what he said?
Q: Say the words he used.
A: He said: "What I ought to do is just cut your motherfucking throat."
Q: Did he have any weapons on him?
A: Yes, he did.
Q: What weapons did he have?
A: Well, there was a bayonet, a military bayonet, stuck in the steering
column of the dune buggy he was driving. He had a-this was supposed to be the
gun that he had killed the Black Panther with, it was a .22 pistol. I think
that’s what it was. And he had that between his legs on the seat. And he had a
little knife that he always had, had it in a sheath at his ankle. He had on
those buckskin pants, those frilled buckskin pants, and there is a sheath built
into it. He had one of the girls sew a sheath into the ankle.
