How Should JFK Survive For My TL?

[Emperor Norton I]

There's a couple of ways. Either he's shot by the initial bullet, but the headshot misses; he's shot and paralyzed and he'll be in a wheel chair for the remainder of his years; someone else gets the killing shot (Jackie, for example); he avoids getting shot altogether in Dallas; or he avoids going to Dallas. Or other. Each choice would affect the timeline in an understandable way.

[Zacoftheaxes]

Shot but not headshot, and have him never remove the bullet TR style, and then have him pull out a gun and shoot Oswald from the car while bleeding.

So Other.


and weren't you going to do I Love Mondays instead?

[TNF]

Not going to Dallas seems the best way to keep JFK around.

[Odysseus]

I'd like to see him get shot, but have John Connally get the killing shot instead. That's sure it cause some chaos.

[MacCaulay]

Originally Posted by Zacoftheaxes

Shot but not headshot, and have him never remove the bullet TR style, and then have him pull out a gun and shoot Oswald from the car while bleeding.

So Other.

Oswald throws a handgrenade, JFK catches it and throws it back into the Texas Book Depository window, all Turtledove Custer-style.

"Er, uh...theat was amazing, er uh..." (it's hard to write a good JFK impression)

[Mysterion]

Shooter misses JFK, but Jackie is hit and killed.

[Hades]

JFK is rendered unconscious when the third shot hits his lung, leaving a constitutional debate on what to do when a president is incapaciated.

[Berra]

Killing Jackie could make JFK crazy which would be interesting in it's own right.

[MacCaulay]

Originally Posted by Berra

Killing Jackie could make JFK crazy which would be interesting in it's own right.

"Jackierrrrrr!!!"

[RandomIdeaGuy]

JFK paralyzed, Johnson killed, just for fun

[Historico]

Just switch the Connally's and the Kennedy's places in the Limo Ride, although I might be mistaken in thinking that Jack sat in the back due to his bad back. But yeah that way Jack gets the shoulder wounds, spends the rest of the recouperating and by 1964 is fresh to get the Civil Rights bill rolling

[Emperor Norton I]

I don't wanna comment on any of these right now since I want a few more opinions, but I wanna answer a question.

Originally Posted by Zacoftheaxes

and weren't you going to do I Love Mondays instead?

"I Love Mondays*/A Sensible Radicalism**" was a part of that whole deal where I wanted to pick from a list for my first timeline. The problem is that such a thing would actually be more work than the JFK one, and I want the JFK one to be my baby and that's going to be one I'll look forward too. So "ILM/ASR" will either take place just before the JFK one or maybe even after since it is such a long period and with a number of butterflies and history I have to catch up on. And I need to get a footing first, which requires a preliminary timeline to test my skills. That one will likely be the Nixon/Watergate deal. Short, sweet, and limited butterflies. Make no mistake, this JFK one isn't coming right now. I may give you an opener as Roguebeaver informed me the Warren Commission's report was reaching its anniversery in a few days, but even in that case, I'll leave it at that for a bit while I did a short TL to get footing as said, then come back to it. I got butterflies and political stuff up the wazoo, and may even give you some cultural tidbits of the alternate 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's, so this JFK one will be a lot of work and requiring a lot of focus when I get around to it.

*Plebeian title
*Patrician title

Originally Posted by MacCaulay

Oswald throws a handgrenade, JFK catches it and throws it back into the Texas Book Depository window, all Turtledove Custer-style.

"Er, uh...theat was amazing, er uh..." (it's hard to write a good JFK impression)

"Now, er, uh, hurry up because we are late for my 12 O'clock blow job. Ich bin ein horny."

[Underboss_3]

Originally Posted by Emperor Norton I

"Now, er, uh, hurry up because we are late for my 12 O'clock blow job. Ich bin ein horny."

I voted "Shot, but headshot misses," but I like the idea of someone else getting the killshot. It could be a good part of the story to explore the survivor guilt that JFK has after losing the mother of his children...Or even knowing that Connally took a bullet that was intended for him. A Connally assassination could trigger all sorts of butterflies considering that he later became a Republican.

[Mysterion]

Originally Posted by Underboss_3

I voted "Shot, but headshot misses," but I like the idea of someone else getting the killshot. It could be a good part of the story to explore the survivor guilt that JFK has after losing the mother of his children...

...plus the paranoia that they were really after him and, having failed, will be trying again.

[Emperor Norton I]

Originally Posted by Mysterion

...plus the paranoia that they were really after him and, having failed, will be trying again.

On that note, who do you think Kennedy would suspect had "actually" tried to kill him?

[catboy637]

The bullet misses him, hits his car, then lights it on fire and Kennedy espaces with sever burns on his face. Take that, womanizer! Try it now, with your burnt face!

[Atlantic Friend]

Weather/a mechanical problem prevents Air Force One from landing at Love Field. The parade with Connally is either cancelled or delayed enough that whoever fired the rifle prefer to leave the area, fearing the plan to kill the President has been uncovered.

Alternatively, JFK goes to Dallas, but it's Connally who's the target and dies, Kennedy just gets splattered with blood and skull fragments.

[Mysterion]

Originally Posted by Emperor Norton I

On that note, who do you think Kennedy would suspect had "actually" tried to kill him?

Guess this will depend on how crazy his wife's death has driven him, and/or what kind of stuff J. Edgar starts feeding him, etc.

[Emperor Norton I]

Originally Posted by Mysterion

Guess this will depend on how crazy his wife's death has driven him, and/or what kind of stuff J. Edgar starts feeding him, etc.

His wife may not die, though, as that's only one of the scenarios.

[Sigma7]

Have somebody convince him to keep The Bubble up.

Dallas will get over it.