50 Years...

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/01/busboy-who-held-dying-robert-f-kennedy-shares-senators-last-words.html

Bobby Kennedy's last words. He was worried whether anyone else was hurt.

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The Ambassador Hotel was demolished in 2005. The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools was built on the site, and opened in 2010. The schools' library was constructed on the footprint of the ballroom where Kennedy gave his acceptance speech. On the north wall is a mural entitled 'Seeing Through Others Eyes' which depicts Kennedy and Cesar Chavez sitting side by side. Over Kennedy's left shoulder, the artist painted the image of Juan Romero, the busboy who comforted Kennedy in the moments after he was shot.

In the Netflix docuseries 'Bobby Kennedy for President', Paul Schrade, who was also shot in the hotel kitchen that night, shows Juan Romero around the new school campus. They enter the library, and Schrade points to the mural. "Isn't that you?", he said. Romero sees himself painted next to Kennedy, and breaks down. He had no idea that his act of kindness had been memorialized in that way. It's a very poignant moment.