Remembering Juan Romero, Paul Allen, Earl Bakken

Juan Romero was the busboy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, who cradled Robert Kennedy immediately after Kennedy was shot in the head. The photograph of Romero with the dying Kennedy is one of the most iconic pictures of the 20th Century. Paul Allen was the cofounder, along with Bill Gates, of Microsoft. Allen realized the value of software and operating systems at an early age, and this helped him and Gates to build a financial empire. Earl Bakken was the Minneapolis engineer who designed the first battery-operated pacemaker, which led to his founding Medtronic, one of the world’s largest healthcare equipment companies.