LA Observed. Below: The Ambassador Hotel pantry by Bill Eppridge/Life. I always like when Steve Lopez goes back and checks on Juan Romero, the busboy at the Ambassador Hotel who cradled Robert F.

As a skinny teenage busboy, Juan Romero knelt beside a mortally wounded Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel. On Saturday morning, more than 42 years later, he knelt again, this time beside RFK ...

The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that Juan Romero died Monday in ... at home if he took part. Instead, Romero got a job at the Ambassador Hotel as a dishwasher and later a busboy.

Juan Romero has spent half a century trying to ... But what happened at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just past midnight on June 5, 1968, is always there, a shadow at the edge of his ...

When Robert F. Kennedy decided to duck through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after declaring victory in the 1968 Democratic presidential primary, Juan Romero reveled at his ...

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.

Juan Romero died at a Modesto ... Romero was 17 when he tried to help Kennedy, who was shot in the head at the Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968, after he won the California presidential primary.

When Robert F. Kennedy decided to duck through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after declaring victory in the 1968 Democratic presidential primary, Juan Romero reveled at his ...

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LOS ANGELES — The hotel busboy who came to Robert F. Kennedy’s aid when the New York senator was shot in Los Angeles has died. The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that Juan Romero died ...

When Robert F. Kennedy decided to duck through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after declaring victory in the 1968 Democratic presidential primary, Juan Romero reveled at his ...