“All I remember was that I kept staring at him with my mouth open,” Romero said. Kennedy put down the phone and waved Romero to come forward. He saw Kennedy toward the back - one hand holding a curtain and the other gripping a phone. Romero was on duty and came into the room with a group of other busboys. Senate to represent the state of New York in 1964. Attorney General from 19611964 and was elected to the U.S. On the night of June 4, 1968, Romero was working as a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. RFK, the 42-year-old younger brother of assassinated President John F. He met Kennedy the day before the California primary, when the senator and his aides ordered room service. The busboy who held RFK as he lay dying blamed himself for years. Kennedy moments after he was shot, died in Modesto.

He got a job at the Ambassador Hotel as a dishwasher and later a busboy. Juan Romero, who as a 17-year-old busboy at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in June 1968, tried to help a mortally wounded Robert F. Romero feared he would face trouble at home if he took part in the protests. Photo by Jud Esty-Kendall/STORYCORPS via AP Kennedy at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles moments after Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968. Juan Romero holds a photo of himself with Sen. The family lived in blue-collar East Los Angeles and he attended Roosevelt High School the year that Chicano students started organizing walkouts to protest discrimination against Mexican-American students. His life was haunted by the violence Presidential candidate Robert F. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Must Reads: The busboy who tried to help a wounded Robert F. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.

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