Assassination of Abraham Lincoln - 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<br> ABRAHAM LINCOLN</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="abraham_lincoln_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="abraham_lincoln_ch2.htm">2. ASSASSINATION PLOTS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch3.htm">3. WARNINGS AND OMENS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch4.htm">4. DREAMS OF DEATH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch5.htm">5. TO KIDNAP A PRESIDENT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch6.htm">6. "THE WORST"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch7.htm">7. WHERE WERE THE BODYGUARDS?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch8.htm">8. NO HOPE</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="abraham_lincoln_ch9.htm">9. A FOILED PLOT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch10.htm">10. MULTIPLE FUNERALS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch11.htm">11. BOOTH'S CAPTURE AND DEATH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch11.htm">12. THE CONSPIRACY TRIAL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch13.htm">13. EXECUTION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch14.htm">14. THE REST OF THE STORY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch15.htm">15. THE LAST WORD</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">The President’s head dropped upon his shoulders;<br> the ball was in his brain.</b></i><br><br> George Alfred <a href="http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/art/gath2.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Townsend</b></a><br> Special Correspondent<br> in<br> <i>The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth</i><br> 1866</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">When Abraham Lincoln <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vctt8photo.jpg" target="_blank"><b>delivered</b></a> his <a target="_blank" href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc2.6p1.jpg"><b>first</b></a> Inaugural Address, he <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc2.6p7.jpg" target="_blank"><b>warned</b></a> the country:</p> <center><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>We are not enemies but friends - We must not be enemies.</b></i></center> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">His words, of course, went unheeded. In April of 1861, the month following his speech, the American Civil War began.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p><br>  </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>