Story #2

http://storycorps.org/listen/stories/hector-black/

This is a story of a father, Hector Black, talking about his daughter’s murder. At the beginning of the story we were given the information of what exactly had happened to his daughter. This was a good background story to give the listener some information on what was really going on. During this part of the audio the tone of his voice sounded sad and you could really tell that he was reflecting on the feelings he had back at that time. I thought that this really helped the story because it gave it a personal feel.
It then went into the story of the individual who murdered Black’s daughter, Patricia Nuckles. He talks about the pain it caused him and how the trial went. At the very end of the audio clip Black stated, “And I looked in his eyes, the tears were streaming down his cheeks and before he was lead away he asked to speak and was lead to the microphone and he, twice, said I’m so sorry for the pain that I’ve caused. And when I got back to my room that night I couldn’t sleep. Cause I really felt that a tremendous weight had been lifted from me, and that I had forgiven him.”
This was my favorite part of the whole story because you can only imagine the pain that this father was caused and how much anger he had for the murdered and for someone to say that they forgive the person who murdered their child takes a whole lot of strength. With that being said, you could tell that Hector Black is a very strong man.