History

Juan Romero can't forget RFK

The teenage busboy photographed as he cradled the bloodied head of Robert F. Kennedy on the pantry floor at the Ambssador Hotel on June 5, 1968, is now a 53-year-old laborer in San Jose. Steve Lopez went to see him. I'd forgotten that the next morning, Romero somehow got himself to class at Roosevelt High.


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