School History

General resources

• N.O.W. & Then — school history project by a NOW Academy class from 2012, taught by Felicia T. Perez

• Wikipedia pages — these can be a good place to start research and get a general overview, but always be critical of Wikipedia as a source and explore the references section

  • • Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles) Wikipedia page

    • Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy Wikipedia page

    • Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools Wikipedia page

• Oral history interviews with Paul Schrade — interviews from the UCLA Center for Oral History Research with Paul Schrade, who was an advisor to Robert F. Kennedy and whom our library was named after

Articles

• "Historic L.A. Hotel Finds New Life As School Campus" by Karen Grigsby Bates (NPR)

• "Los Angeles in Buildings: The Ambassador Hotel" by Colin Marshall (KCET)

• "The Busboy Who Cradled A Dying RFK Recalls Those Final Moments" by Jud Esty-Kendall & Emma Bowman (NPR)

Photos & video of the Ambassador Hotel & Cocoanut Grove

• Los Angeles Conservancy

• Los Angeles Public Library Menu Collection

• Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection

• "Movies Filmed at the Ambassador Hotel" — compilation video of movie clips