The image, in such stark contrasts of black and white, life and death, Latino and Anglo, became one of the most memorable photographs of a violent year in a violent decade in a violent half century. He looked up in shock or fright at the moment two news photographers arrived on the scene and clicked their shutters. The candidate lay flat on his back in a dark suit and a pool of blood, and the busboy in his white jacket cradled him by the back of the neck, pressing a crucifix and rosary beads into Kennedy’s right palm. Kennedy was felled by an assassin in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles 50 years ago, the first person to his aid was a young busboy, whose hand he had just shaken. (Jud Esty-Kendall/STORYCORPS via AP) Jud Esty-Kendall./Associated Press He held the mortally wounded Kennedy as he lay on the ground, struggling to keep the senator's bleeding head from hitting the floor. Romero was a busboy in June 1968 when Kennedy walked through the Ambassador Hotel kitchen after his victory in the California presidential primary and an assassin shot him in the head. 4, 2018, that Romero died Monday in Modesto, California, at age 68. The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday, Oct. Kennedy at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles moments after Kennedy was shot. "First he asked, 'Is everybody OK?' and I told him, 'Yes, everybody's OK.' And then he turned away from me and said, 'Everything's going to be OK'.Comments This photo provided by STORYCORPS shows Juan Romero holding a Los Angeles Times photograph that shows Romero with Sen. Romera says the dying Senator's first response after being shot was "Is everybody OK?" As everyone else in the room took cover, Romera dropped to the ground and cradled the dying Kennedy's head in his hands to keep him from the cold concrete. However, as he reached out his hand to meet that of his political hero, gun shots rang out through the room, and the Senator dropped to the floor. I didn't ask him."Īccording to the Daily Mail, Romero waited in line to shake the hand of Kennedy as he passed through the hotel kitchen. and like I tell everybody, he shook my hand. He didn't look at my color, he didn't look at my position. Kennedy's room, he was made to feel like "a regular citizen." Romero remembers how when he brought room service to Robert F. Romero says Senator Kennedy brought hope of social justice, racial tolerance, and an end to the war in Vietnam. Romero recalls how photos of the Kennedy hung on walls in Mexican homes alongside that of Pope John XXIII. Kennedy, while working at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Young Romero says he was just 17-years-old when he met the presidential hopeful, Robert F. Times that he struggled with memories of the tragic scene for decades, and that depression from the event crippled him for some time. Now 65-years-old, Juan Romero told the L.A. Romero says that moment has forever haunted him, and that he struggled through years of depression as he felt responsible for the Senator's death, that somehow, his handshake is what killed the California presidential primary winner. The Mexican busboy, who had immigrated to the United States at the age of 10, quickly dropped to the floor to cradle the dying Kennedy's head. However, before their hands could meet, a shot rang out in the building and Kennedy dropped to the floor. Kennedy stepped into the kitchen and reached out to shake his hand. He recalls the moment that Senator Robert F. Juan Romero was a 17-year-old busboy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968.
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