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    The Busboy Who Cradled A Dying RFK Recalls Those Final Moments

    It's an infamous scene: Juan Romero, then a teenager, attends to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who had just been shot at LA's Ambassador Hotel. He reflects on his brief time with RFK 50 years ago.
    by Jud Esty-Kendall Jun 01, 2018 2 minutes
    Juan Romero, 67, at his home in Modesto, Calif., holds a photo of himself and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, taken by <em>The Los Angeles Times' </em>Boris Yaro on June 5, 1968.

    Infamous photographs, taken seconds after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968, show him lying on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel's kitchen. A teenage busboy kneels beside him, cradling the senator's head.

    That busboy was Juan Romero.

    Kennedy was running for president and had just won the California Democratic primary when he was assassinated at the Los Angeles hotel.

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