On november 22, 1963, President Jonh F. Kennedy
was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, and the
United States was plunged into mourning.
The first day he arrived he realized that it was a very
populated place and when he got to school it cost him a little
because the language they spoke there was not his first
language, English was spoken there, although in his other
school he was A student with a very good average, his average
was A but he is very nervous because he did not want to feel
rejected. but he felt lost in all that crowd because he knew no
one.
For her the only nice thing of the year
was that Eugene and his family had
moved into the only house on the block
that had a yard and trees, and she could
see his place from the window.
The day President Kennedy was shot there was a
profundsilence in El Building; even the abusive
tongues of vigaroes, the cursing of the
unemployed, and screeching of small children had
been somehow muted
The day Mr. Depalma came out to the well
and asked them to get in the front row
when was the day President Kennedy was
shot.
The day that president Kennedy was shot, her ninth
grade class went out to play; the girls where playing
jump the rope and the black girls where abusing her
because she didn´t jump the rope correctly and they
called her skinny nones and other offensive things.
The president was killed. So Judith and her mother must
show respect because he was a great man. At
night they should go to the church.
For the next few days they observe luto in their
apartment. They are not allowed to put loud music
or laughter. Some of the women of el Building would
wear black for weeks.