WASHINGTON: President Johnson announced last night [June 5] appointment of a commission of distinguished Americans to investigate the `tragic phenomena` of violence in the land reflected most recently in the shooting of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

In a tense emotion-charged television broadcast late last night before Sen. Kennedy succumbed to his injury, Mr Johnson said the connection between lawlessness and hatred and the at tempt on Sen. Kennedy`s life could not be ignored but it would be `equally self-deceptive to conclude from this act that our society itself is sick`.

The commission he named will be headed by 69-year-old Dr. Milton Eisenhower, brother of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and a long-time Government trouble-shooter. The group will look into the causes, occurrence and control of physical violence across the nation ranging from assassination motivated by prejudice, ideology, politics and insanity, `to violence in our cities` streets and even in our homes`.

He appealed urgently for passage of gun control legislation `to bring the insane traffic in guns to a halt`, and to slow down the violence and spare many innocent lives. Agencies