Nina Rhodes-Hughes opposes freedom for Sirhan Sirhan, whom she regards as one of two gunmen firing shots inside the Ambassador Hotel kitchen pantry.

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The scene at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles is one etched into many Americans' political memories, hard to forget, but also hard to believe.

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Kennedy is seen in newsreels and occasionally from the rear as a figure moving through the old Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the night of his assassination, June 4, 1968.

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She accepted her award at the Academy Awards ceremony at the Coconut Grove, a nightclub in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, where she was seated in the segregated section at the rear of the room.

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Rhodes-Hughes says that, in the months following the June 5, 1968 assassination, she and some others who had been at the Ambassador Hotel refused news media interviews so as to avoid interfering with preparations for Sirhan's trial.

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Pop-hotelier Ian Schrager has taken his reputation for over-the-top luxury down a notch with PUBLIC Chicago, which opened in 2011 in the old Ambassador East Hotel building.

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South Africa's ambassador to Libya was also at the hotel trying to get any information on Hemmerl.

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The first President Bush knew the hotel well, originally as U.N. ambassador.

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The 48 men were taken to the Sheraton hotel in the Syrian capital, Damascus, where they would be received by the Iranian ambassador, Iranian sources told BBC Arabic.

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