"I could feel a steady stream of blood coming through my fingers," Romero says. "I kneeled down to him and I could see his lips moving, so I put my ear next to his lips and I heard him say, 'Is everybody OK?' I said, 'Yes, everybody's OK.' I put my hand between the cold concrete and his head just to make him comfortable." His next actions are now immortalized in photos taken by journalists there for the victory speech. "I remember extending my hand as far as I could, and then I remember him shaking my hand," Romero says. After giving his victory speech in the ballroom, Kennedy was led through the kitchen on his way to meet the press and he stopped to shake hands with some of the staff along the way. Eugene McCarthy to win the Democratic primary. Stor圜orps 10 Years Later, Virginia Tech Instructor Recalls Her Students' Response To Tragedy And I remember walking out of there like I was 10 feet tall."
"You could tell when he was looking at you that he's not looking through you - he's taking you into account. "He put down the phone and says, 'Come on in, boys,' " Romero says. The senator had been on the phone when Kennedy's aides opened the door to receive him and his co-worker, Romero recalls. It was the first of two brief encounters that left Romero struck by how present and considerate Bobby Kennedy appeared with guests. He helped deliver Kennedy's room service. In an interview with Stor圜orps, Romero, now 67, remembers meeting Kennedy the day before the assassination. Kennedy was running for president and had just won the California Democratic primary when he was assassinated at the Los Angeles hotel. A teenage busboy kneels beside him, cradling the senator's head.
Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968, show him lying on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel's kitchen. Infamous photographs, taken seconds after Sen. Kennedy, taken by The Los Angeles Times' Boris Yaro on June 5, 1968. He hints at the anguish he’s endured as a result of the publicity from the photographs, as well as guilt over not having been able to do something to prevent Kennedy’s assassination.Juan Romero, 67, at his home in Modesto, Calif., holds a photo of himself and Sen. In the days after his photo appeared in newspapers around the world, Romero received many letters-some of them angry. Romero also gives a moving account of his visit to Kennedy’s grave years after the assassination. In the interview, Romero recounts the words he exchanged with Kennedy as he knelt with his hand under the Senator’s head. “I remember him shaking my hand…and as he let go, somebody shot him,” Romero recalls. He had stopped to shake hands with some of the staff. Kennedy won the 1968 Democratic primary the next day, and was walking through the hotel kitchen after delivering his victory speech. And I remember walking out of there like I was 10 feet tall,” Romero tells Stor圜orps.
“You could tell when he was looking at you that he’s not looking through you - he’s taking you into account. The Senator interrupted a phone call to invite them in. He recalls meeting Kennedy the day before the assassination, when Romero and a co-worker delivered room service to Kennedy. (Romero is shown here holding a photograph by Boris Yaro.)
Now 67, Romero reflects on the moment and the photos in this new recording for NPR’s Stor圜orps. Kennedyy was shot on Jin the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Bill Eppridge and Boris Yaro took two of the most widely circulated photographs of Kennedy lying mortally wounded as a 17-year-old-busboy named Juan Romero tried to comfort him.
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