LOS ANGELES (AP) - With a band of traditional Korean drummers, a Latin dance group and a martial arts exhibition, officials have broken ground on a new pocket park at the site where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated 40 years ago.

Few in the group of more than 200 people who turned out to witness Wednesday's event knew much about Kennedy except that he had been shot to death at the site of the old Ambassador Hotel after winning the California presidential primary in 1968.

But many said they thought a park would be a fitting tribute to the late senator and a valuable resource to the crowded, multiethnic community.

Three Los Angeles public schools are also going up on the site where the Ambassador, once one of Los Angeles' flashiest hotels, stood for decades.