Juan Romero (witness to RFK assassination)

Juan Romero (born 1955) was a busboy and the last person to shake the hand of Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan mere moments later.

Romero was serving as a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel on the eve of the June 5, 1968 California Democratic Primary Elections and had been able to bribe a fellow busboy that night to allow him to shake hands with the Senator in his suite.cite web
url = http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/06/voices--juan-ro.html
title = Steve Lopez, The Daily Mirror, "Voices - Juan Romero"
accessdate = 2008-06-05
year = 2006
publisher = Los Angeles Times (Online Edition)] Around midnight, just after the Senator had won the California Primary Nomination, Senator Kennedy was proceeding through the kitchen Romero approached him once again to shake his hand in congratulations. It was at that moment that Sirhan Sirhan fired the fatal shots from near Romero's shoulder. The Senator, mortally wounded, fell immediately and several iconic images of the event were captured of Romero with the fallen Presidential Candidatecite web |date=2007 |url= http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/zoomify.asp?id=1746&type=g&width=640&height=480&hideAlt=1|title = Assassination of presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy|format = PICTURE|publisher = National Museum of American History| accessdate = 2008-06-05 | last= |quote=] Romero offered the Senator his Rosary and wrapped it around the Senator's hand when he could not hold it.

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