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Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

Nov 15, 1994 · 51m
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1994 at the Ambassador Hotel, 55 Mason Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California. From 1978 to 1996, the hotel was managed by Hank Wilson, a San Francisco LGBT activist who made the hotel a model for harm reduction housing. 134 run-down and exhausted rooms populated by homeless men and women, sometimes even children. All of them in urgent need of care, compassion and humanity. Nobly provided by voluntarily working professional health care and social workers staff, various benefactors, volunteers, neighbors, and community contributions.

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CAST

Hank Wilson
Mr Ambassador
Peter Wilson
reporter
Pam Moore
Narrator/reporter
Peter Wilson
Narrator/reporter
Val Robb
RN Nurse
Carolyn Jones
RN Nurse
Bob Lawless
RN Nurse
Victoria Sanabria
Social worker
Directed by Ken Swartz

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Chronicle Pictures
Country
US

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