Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)
The Ambassador Hotel was a hotel in Los Angeles, California and location of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub until it was demolished in 2005. The hotel was the site of the 2nd Academy Awards, 12th Academy Awards, and the June 1968 assassination of presidential candidate, United States Senator, and former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
Read more about Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles): Background, Robert F. Kennedy Assassination, After The Death of RFK, Filming/Photography At The Hotel, Decision To Demolish, Demolition, Cocoanut Grove Preservation, 2006 – 2010
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“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
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Out flat in your p.j.’s glowering at T.V.
or at the oven gassing the cat
or at the Hotel 69 head to knee.”
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