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The Busboy and Robert Kennedy

A hotel kitchen, one handshake, and the letters that blamed a seventeen-year-old.

Collection: Los Angeles · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

The Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire, photographed in 2004
The Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire, photographed in 2004 · Subsven, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

He was seventeen, he cleared tables at the Ambassador Hotel, and he pushed his hand out as far as it would go. Juan Romero had met Robert Kennedy the day before, bringing up room service. Kennedy put down the phone and said, "Come on in, boys." Romero left feeling ten feet tall, he said. Just after midnight on June 5, 1968, Kennedy finished his victory speech and came through the kitchen, shaking hands with the staff.

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Visiting

3400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Koreatown. This is a working school campus and is not open to walkers. See it from the Wilshire Boulevard sidewalk only.

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