Juan Romero Carried Guilt Over RFK's Assassination for 50 Years (opens in new tab)

On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy made his way through a crowd at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California primary. He was shaking hands as a bullet tore through him, and he was dead the next day. The last hand he shook was that of 17-year-old hotel busboy Juan Romero. Romero crouched down beside Kennedy, and became a subject in the photograph that everyone remembers from that day.That photo brought Romero celebrity, but he had a hard time deali...