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-Quote of the Day- “Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."-Senator Robert F. Kennedy,Brother of President JFK
On June 5th 1968 Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary.
Infamous photographs, taken seconds after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968, show him lying on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel's kitchen. A teenage busboy kneels beside him, cradling the senator's head.
That busboy was Juan Romero.
Kennedy was running for president and had just won the California Democratic primary when he was assassinated at the Los Angeles hotel.
In an interview with StoryCorps, Romero, now 67, remembers meeting Kennedy the day before the assassination. He helped deliver Kennedy's room service. It was the first of two brief encounters that left Romero struck by how present and considerate Bobby Kennedy appeared with guests.
The senator had been on the phone when Kennedy's aides opened the door to receive him and his co-worker, Romero recalls. "He put down the phone and says, 'Come on in, boys,' " Romero says. "You could tell when he was looking at you that he's not looking through you — he's taking you into account. And I remember walking out of there like I was 10 feet tall." Read more
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