LA 1968 RFK Assassination 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. "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."LA 1968 RFK Assassination 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. "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."
LA 1968 RFK Assassination 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. "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."