By: Randy Economy
March 1, 2010
Las Vegas – This is my "must thing" to do in Las Vegas this week.
Evidence from some of Los Angeles County’s most notorious criminal cases – including the Robert F. Kennedy assassination and Manson murder trial – will be showcased this week as part of a crime history exhibit.
Are you kidding me?
Nope this public exhibit is for real, and will be walk down "criminal Los Angeles Memory Lane" and needs to been seen to believed.
But you got to head to Las Vegas to see it.
“Behind the Scenes,” an exhibit featuring evidence, photographs, video footage and vintage vehicles from homicide investigations spanning 100 years, is free and open to the public March 3 and 4 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The exhibit will be housed at the Palms Casino Resort, Key West Ballroom, 4321 West Flamingo Road, in Las Vegas.
“The Los Angeles Police Department’s homicide investigators have again and again demonstrated their ability to put together evidence on all sorts of crimes and certainly the more notorious killings in the city,” said District Attorney Steve Cooley. “We are happy to participate in this important historical exhibit by providing some of the evidence collected over the years by the hard-working detectives with whom we work so closely.”
Items on display from the District Attorney’s historical evidence collection include the clothes worn by Senator Kennedy the night of his assassination, weapons seized from the Manson family, gloves and a knit cap from the O.J. Simpson murder trial and firearms from the Onion Field case.
Detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department curated the exhibit for the 2010 California Homicide Investigators Conference.
Photographs and memorabilia from high profile cases in the City of Los Angeles also will be on display courtesy of the Los Angeles Police Historical Society Museum. Among the cases to be highlighted are Marilyn Monroe’s death, the Black Dahlia murder, the 1997 North Hollywood shootout and the 1974 Symbionese Liberation Army shootout.
So, for the curious and avid true-blue Native Angeleno, you gotta check this exhibit out!
Drop me a note to RREconomy@aol.com, or click the headline from this Post and tell me what you think! What was your most memorial crime in LA history?
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