  The oldest and most metal-poor Milky Way stars form a kinematically hot halo,
which motivates the two major formation scenarios for our galaxy: extended
hierarchical accretion and rapid collapse. RR Lyrae stars are excellent tracers
of old and metal-poor populations. We measure the kinematics of 43 RR Lyrae
stars in the inner regions of the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy.
The velocity dispersion, \sigma_{true}=53\pm10 km/s, indicates that a
kinematically hot metal-poor old halo also exists in the LMC. This suggests
that our galaxy and smaller late-type galaxies like the LMC have similar early
formation histories.
