Kennedy Reflects on the Senator's Final Moments The busboy who held Robert F. Kennedy’s side, cradling the New York senator moments after he was shot in 1968, died this week, it was reported Thursday. Romero crouches to help, and the black-and-white photographs freeze forever the image of a young immigrant laborer at the side of fallen American aristocracy. The Former Busboy Who Held a Dying Robert F. News The Busboy Who Held RFK As He Died Close Encounter Juan Romero reached out instinctively to help a dying Robert Kennedy after he was fatally shot in. Juan Romero, the hotel busboy who was photographed holding the head of the mortally wounded Robert Kennedy, has died. Kennedy goes down, flat on his back, a ghostly look in his eyes. Romero rushes to the food service area Kennedy is passing through and reaches out to congratulate the man he had met the night before while delivering room service.Īnd then the shots, the screams, the commotion. He hears that Bobby Kennedy has won the California Democratic primary for president. He enjoys time with family and friends and doesn't look too far down the road.īut what happened at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in the early morning of June 5, 1968, is always there, a shadow at the edge of his consciousness, and sometimes he retreats into it. He likes to have a cold beer or two with his work crew when they punch out at the end of the day, caked in dirt and sweat. He gets up before sunrise, goes to work and paves another road or driveway in the San Jose, Calif., area, strong as ever at 67. Juan Romero has spent half a century trying to move on.

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