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

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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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