Word: primitivo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kindermann - who was 5½ months pregnant - as she stood on the school steps waiting for her ride home. When they got no reaction to random obscenities and a pat on her back, one grabbed her purse, running with it to the opposite side of the street where Primitivo and the others were gathered. Mrs. Kindermann followed. With so many ordinary respectable people around, she could not believe that she was in danger. But the caper had just begun...
...Shoot Him! Shoot Him!" The punks with her purse joined those who had tackled the Mexicans, and all of them danced around her. One pulled her legs from under her; the others lifted up her skirt and fondled her. Primitivo was outraged. Plunging into the group, he knocked down the youth with the purse and punched another in the face. "Shoot him! Shoot him!" they yelled. The purse snatcher did just that...
...first two shots went astray, but the third ripped into Primitivo's stomach. He staggered to the school, where Mrs. Kindermann, who had escaped while the fight was going on, called an ambulance that took him to the General Hospital. Not one of the respectable people around the school bothered to call the police or interfere in any way during the ten minutes it took for the grisly scene to play itself out. Three of the attackers were in jail last week, a fourth was in a boys' camp, and the fifth was released to his family...
...friend Mrs. Virginia McCray, 45. Hoping to raise a few hundred dollars to help the Garcias with hospital and funeral expenses, the two women, at last count, had collected $14,200 from more than 1,500 donors. Mrs. Kindermann's fifth-grade class needed no prompting to write Primitivo in the hospital. "I am thanking you for saving Mrs. Kindermann's life and her baby," wrote one girl. "Our room is learning Spanish. Our city is not that bad, but the main thing is, get well. I hope you pass all your tests so that you can become...
...hours before Primitivo died, Missouri Governor Warren Hearnes made him an honorary citizen of the state. He had been in Kansas City long enough to know the good of America...