RIP Juan Romero

Ken AshfordHistory, In PassingLeave a Comment

The 17 year old busboy who tried to help a wounded Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 died. He was shaking Kennedy’s hand when the shots were fired.  He had rosary beads in his pocket and he gave them to RFK.  Afterwards, his life was haunted by the violence he saw that day, even to the point of being unable to mark his own birthday because it was in the same month as RFK’s assassination.  He was 68.