"A Warm, Clear Day in Dallas" Summary

Before: On November 22,1963 At 12:30 in the afternoon a man with a rile crouched behind a window with a rifle in the Texas School Books Depository above Dealey Plaza. It was a clear brilliant autumn day and the crowds in the street below cheered and waved as the President John F. Kennedy’s limousine passed by. The President wife, Jacqueline smiled and waved back; earlier the President had stopped the motorcade twice one to shake his hands with the little girl and a second time to greet a Catholic nun at her group of schoolchildren. The mornings Dallas News had carried a full page advertisement criticizing Kennedy for his abandonment of the communism. The motorcade entered Main Street and approached Dealey Plaza. John F. Kennedy had been president for a little more than thousand days, and in that time he had brought the country through cries that shook the world.

After: Mrs. Connally said” Mr.President, you can’t say that Dallas doesn’t love you. From the early hummiliation of planned and disastrous invasion of Cuda he had gone on to challenge the nuclear might of gone on to challenge the nuclear might of the Soviet Union over missile bases in Cuba,confronted The Soviet Union over the explosive issue of the Berlin Wall, found an Alliance for progress that United States to outer space exploration and signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Soviet Union and other countries. Though he demanded hard work from himself his staff and all Americans his youth intellectual vigor and spirit of practical optimism imbued many Americans with the belief that real progress could be mad toward creating a better more just society. But the motorcade rolled on the president was not worried. AS he passed out sight of the people in Dealey Plaza The man in the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository aimed his rifle and fired.