Click2History - Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="john_kennedy_ch1.htm">1. STORY PREFACE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="john_kennedy_ch2.htm">2. HAPPIER TIMES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="john_kennedy_ch3.htm">3. TO DALLAS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="john_kennedy_ch4.htm">4. LEE HARVEY OSWALD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="john_kennedy_ch5.htm"><b>5. THE MOTORCADE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="john_kennedy_ch6.htm"><b>6. THE ASSASSINATION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="john_kennedy_ch7.htm"><b>7. DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="john_kennedy_ch8.htm"><b>8. QUESTIONS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="john_kennedy_ch9.htm"><b>9. BOOK DEPOSITORY EVIDENCE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="john_kennedy_ch10.htm"><b>10. FATAL BULLETS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="john_kennedy_ch11.htm"><b>11. MURDER OF OFFICER TIPPIT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="john_kennedy_ch12.htm"><b>12. OSWALD'S ARREST</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="john_kennedy_ch13.htm"><b>13. RUBY KILLS OSWALD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="john_kennedy_ch14.htm"><b>14. THE PRESIDENT'S FUNERAL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">This is a dangerous and<br> uncertain world.</b></i><br><br> President John F. <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/40/19/40-1860a.gif" target="_blank">Kennedy</a><br> Ft. Worth, Texas<br> November 22, 1963</b></i></font><br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">It was a cool, drizzly morning in Ft. Worth, Texas. President and Mrs. Kennedy, who had spent the night in that town, planned to leave for nearby Dallas following <a href="http://www.techtours.org/ww145%20JFK%20last%20meal.JPG" target="_blank"><b>breakfast</b></a>. The Kennedys would travel the short distance <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/4/2/04-0105a.gif" target="_blank"><b>to Love Field</b></a> aboard Air Force One.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/specialreports/2000/jfk/historic_jpeg/112363pg11.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Greeting</b></a> a crowd of 12,000 people in front of the <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/specialreports/2000/jfk/slideshow/jfk_virtual_texas_hotel1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Hotel Texas</b></a> that morning, <a href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/images/jfkbw.jpg" target="_blank"><b>JFK</b></a> commented on various matters - including the absence of his wife. Mrs. Kennedy, he noted, wasn’t quite ready. But, as he reminded everyone, "She always looks so much better than the rest of us."</p> <p>Some of the President’s words were eerily prophetic. In just a few hours, people everywhere would be utterly shocked by just how "dangerous and uncertain&quot the world had become.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="john_kennedy_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>