Ambassador Hotel

…These horrific events of civil unrest in those years seemed to finally culminate in a fateful evening at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where Robert Kennedy and his supporters celebrated victory in the California primary.…

…Hello all, just a note for me before we get into this. This episode contains outdated strong language, which has been used for historical context and accuracy. That night at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, standing in that crowd cheering, you were part of something big. A movement, a mission, a blooming spirit of hope, a presidential campaign that had…

…Frankenheimer, the film director, drives Kennedy into the city. He takes a very strange meandering route because he's going to avoid the crowds, which gets everybody very stressed, more stressed. They finally get to the Ambassador Hotel at about 7 o'clock. The Ambassador Hotel is on Wilshire Boulevard. It's in the middle of the great sprawl of Los Angeles.…