The Cuban Missile Crisis, Click2History - 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>"THIRTEEN DAYS"</p> <p>THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS</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"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch2.htm">2. MISSILES IN CUBA</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch3.htm">3. OPERATION ANADYR</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch4.htm">4. OVERTHROW CASTRO?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch5.htm">5. AMERICA'S FIRST WARNING</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch6.htm">6. THE KENNEDY BROTHERS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch7.htm">7. KENNY O'DONNELL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch8.htm">8. THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch9.htm">9. EX COMM</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch10.htm">10. THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS: "A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER"</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"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch11.htm">11. THE CRISIS WORSENS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch12.htm">12. "EYEBALL TO EYEBALL"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch13.htm">13. BATTLE PLANS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch14.htm">14. CLOSE TO THE EDGE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch15.htm">15. AN AMERICAN DEATH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch16.htm">16. A SECRET DEAL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch17.htm">17. THE TRUTH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch18.htm">18. A DIFFERENT VERSION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch19.htm">19. KHRUSHCHEV BLINKS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="thirteen_days_ch20.htm">20. THE AFTERMATH</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">"We're probably going to have to<br> bomb them."</i></font><br><br> <font face="arial, helvetica" size="2" color="000000">President John F. Kennedy<br> to McGeorge Bundy<br><br></font></b></center></b></div> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">For the first time in weeks, the clouds over <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/cia99/Cuba_sm99.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Cuba</b></a> gave way to clear skies. It was October 14, 1962. Major Richard Heyser was about to fly his <a href="http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/modern_flight/u2.jpg" target="_blank"><b>U-2</b></a> on a spy mission over the Caribbean island. What <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/29/32/29-3129a.gif" target="_blank"><b>he found</b></a> brought the world as close as it’s ever come to nuclear war.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="thirteen_days_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p><br>  </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>