From the Baltimore Sun:
Like many Latinos in Los Angeles in 1968, 17-year-old Juan Romero, a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel, admired Robert F. Kennedy. The night before the California primary, he had had delivered room service to Kennedy’s hotel suite, and had shaken the candidate’s hand.
“He shook my hand as hard as anyone had ever shaken it,” Juan told the Los Angeles Times’ Steve Lopez 35 years later. “I walked out of there 20 feet tall, thinking, ‘I’m not just a busboy, I’m a human being.’ He made me feel that way.”
Fatefully, on June 5 Romero again meets Kennedy. This time in the role of comforter, he cradles Kennedy’s head after being shot in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel kitchen in Los Angeles.
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