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Friday, October 1, 2004; Page A30

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 -- Five of Robert F. Kennedy's nine surviving children urged school officials Thursday to scrap plans to preserve parts of the landmark hotel where he was assassinated in 1968.

The Kennedy children said the district should devote the 23-acre site of the Ambassador Hotel to an education complex.

The proposal to enshrine parts of the ballroom where Kennedy gave his last speech, and possibly the pantry where he was gunned down, runs "counter to his life's work and the kind of legacy our family has tried to maintain," the family members said in a letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District, which owns the hotel.

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School district officials have said that they would demolish much of the Ambassador but spend as much as $15 million to preserve a coffee shop, the hotel's once-swanky nightclub and parts of the Embassy Ballroom, where Kennedy spoke after winning the California presidential primary in June 1968.

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1. I hope they don't follow the Kenneys' advice. I think the parts should be

preserved.

I think it's important that Americans remember our past and the preservation of this place would help.

Also, having those parts within or near the school would enhance the school's status and can be used in the future to help raise money for it.