Las Vegas Weekly

March 3, 2010 · 4:33 PM

Photos: LAPD’s Behind the Scenes exhibit at the Palms

By Robin Leach

Behind the Scenes: The LAPD Homicide Experience exhibit at the Palms.

Photo: Tom Donoghue/www.donoghuephotography.com

Hours into the opening yesterday of a very limited-run exhibit of crime memorabilia and evidence at the Palms, the family of slain Sen. Robert Kennedy succeeded in having the shirt he wore the day he was assassinated withdrawn. Otherwise, some never-before-seen courtroom items used as evidence in some of Hollywood’s most horrific homicides were still intact at the Key West ballroom in the Palms.

Our contributing photographer Tom Donoghue was there for two hours this morning before the first wave of curious crowds showed up to look at the free exhibit. It is open today, tomorrow and Friday as part of the California Homicide Investigators Association 2010 conference sponsored by the LAPD.

With evidence from death scenes involving Marilyn Monroe, Charles Manson and Sen. Kennedy, it’s one of the more unusual conventions to be hosted here in Las Vegas, as we reported yesterday. Our Senior Editor John Katsilometes wrote about the exhibit in his The Kats Report today.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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