More than forty years after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 4, 1968, his convicted murderer, a Palestinian immigrant from Jordan, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan "wants to go free for a crime he says he can't remember," reports the Daily Breeze, a crime he once claimed was committed "with 20 years of malice aforethought." more ›

The teenage busboy, Juan Romero, who "knelt beside a mortally wounded Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles," paid his respects, 42 years later," reports L.A. Now. more ›

Called one of the Los Angeles Unified School District's "Taj Majal" schools due to its size, opulence, and $578M price tag, the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools campus is open for the school year. Now, however, architectural experts are weighing in on the form and function of the buildings on the property where the famous Ambassador Hotel once stood, as detailed in The Architect's Newspaper. more ›

The conversion of the Ambassador Hotel site to a Los Angeles Unified School District mega-campus is almost complete, as the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools preps to welcome students for the first time ever next month. more ›

This week is the California Homicide Investigators Association (CHIA) conference in Las Vegas, an event and organization created in 1968 when homicide detectives from Los Angeles and San Francisco met over dinner to discuss the Zodiac Killer investigation. Today, it's the largest organization of homicide and death investigation professionals in the country. more ›

As late as 2005, the Ambassador sat on twenty-four acres of land on Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown. It was set far back from the street and had the haunted look of old castles. It drew the eye as only someplace ruined, someplace steeped in history can. Blinded, it was worn with crumbling at the edges, bound by a perimeter of chain link fences. It was a fabulous ghost and it could have been a fabulous relic. more ›