Police apologise for Kennedy gaffe

Police in Los Angeles have publicly apologised for lending the bloodstained shirt, tie and jacket that Robert F. Kennedy was wearing when he was shot to organisers of a macabre exhibition at a casino in Las Vegas.

The clothes and other artefacts from the room at the Ambassador Hotel, where Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968, were put on display at a conference for homicide investigators at the Palms Casino.

Also exhibited at the event, which was open to the public, was memorabilia from investigations into Marilyn Monroe's overdose, the O.J. Simpson case, and the Manson family killings, and several other notoriously grisly murder cases over 100 years.

News of the exhibition reopened old wounds for the Kennedy family, who formally complained when they heard about it.

- INDEPENDENT