50 Years After His Death, Making RFK More Than A Ghost And A Mural
In the early hours of June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in a kitchen hallway of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Kennedy was a top Democratic contender. He had just given a rousing victory speech after winning the California presidential primary. He died the following day.
Today, the hotel is gone. But in its place is a kind of living memorial to his ethos of social justice and fairness to everything from immigration to the environment.
Where the Ambassador Hotel and its famous Cocoanut Grove nightclub once stood, the Koreatown neighborhood site is now home to six public schools.
This 20 acre patch of real estate easily could have become just like the high-end condos and office buildings sprouting all around it.
But a handful of advocates fought for a development that would help the surrounding under-served neighborhoods.
"Many of the students were being bused all over the city and there was not an opportunity for them to go to a neighborhood school,"
