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For this scenario, let's say that in order to win over the South in 1960, John F. Kennedy gets a Southern running mate. However, instead of choosing Lyndon B. Johnson, he chooses J. William Fulbright due to his experience and expertise in foreign policy. Kennedy then goes on to win the 1960...

Hi so me and @PrezZF have decided to come together and do a little collab of a Timeline between the two of us. Sort of like the collabs between @Vidal and @Enigma-Conundrum, me and Prez have decided upon the POD and we have a rough outline of Presidents but for the most part, we're improvising...

Usually, the opposite question is asked about Kennedy, or about less escalation or different (nuanced?) escalation if Kennedy had survived. This question goes the opposite direction. What if, instead of withdrawing [mentioned at time, but not *really* on the table, standing pat with the...

I’m curious because i feel like alternate 1960 presidential candidates is under explored/talked about and an election between these two in 1960 seems really interesting but I’m not very knowledgeable of what the political environment was like to have a solid idea on what a presidential race...

JFK was almost became the vice-presidential candidate in 1956 at the Democratic national convention. He actually won the second ballot, and only narrowly lost the final ballot to Estes Kefauver. JFK remarked on March 15, 1958 that: 'I am grateful to my father for his support – but I am even...

There were many certain things you could say about Dick Nixon and Jack Kennedy, but no one ever accused them of screwing the other over. When it came to screwing someone else though, only those two did it best. -Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 2003 The Pacific Ocean created strange bedfellows...

23rd November 1963: A nursing home in Fitchville, Ohio burns down, taking the lives of 63 patients. 29th November 1963: Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes near Montreal, killing all 118 passengers. 30th November 1963: The Liberal-National coalition in Australia led by Robert Menzies wins...

Kennedy had plently of health problems, so I was wondering what could kill him before or after 1963. Any thoughts?

Blue Skies in Camelot: An Alternate 60s and Beyond Act III: Progress & Prosperity (Con't) “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different...

Everyone who is reading this should have a general understanding about the Bay of Pigs Invasion, about how a force of anti-Communist Cuban exiles were trained by the Central Intelligence Agency and were sent to topple the regime under Fidel Castro only for it to become a fiasco and the aftermath...

Did Kennedy need to make LBJ his running mate to win in the 1960 election? Could he have picked some other southerner and still beat Nixon? And if he could what happens when/if he is assassinated? What does that running mate do as President?

What if instead of JFK picking LBJ in 1960 to appeal to the South, he went all in on winning the North and picked Humphrey in 1960? And what if it payed off? John F. Kennedy | Hubert H. Humphrey | 306 EV Richard M. Nixon | Henry C. Lodge Jr. | 181 EV Harry F. Byrd | 49 EV Moreover, because...

Introduction Hey everyone! I’m a big fan of this site and have been a long-time observer. I’ve wanted to do a timeline for quite some time. I’ve finally decided to take a crack at it and hope for the best! Before I begin, a little about me. I am a third-year university student and long-time...

You know the 1960s is one of my favorite decades, so much tragedy and triumph in one decade from the assassination of Kennedy and Vietnam to the Civil Right movement and the Moon Landings. Of course, this all got me thinking what if someone else was in charge instead of JFK or LBJ? I would like...

A certain idea has floated within my head... how would a Nixon/JFK Presidential Ticket look? Now, I know that there is already one absurd example out there (TNO I am looking straight at you) that has some stuff that doesn't make quite a lot of sense (ie: Nixon still a crook and Kennedy still...

Hello I was wondering if Kennedy let the beast lose within the sentor, the beast reference to Vice President Johnson had more influence than he had, I believe Kennedy once said that Johnson would take issues to a mile which was one of the reasons Kennedy had Johnson on a leash, what would...

For context (got from Wikipedia) operation duck hook was a plan the nixon administration had thought of to end Vietnam which involved possible-nuclear bombing of military and economic targets in and around Hanoi, the mining of Haiphong harbor and other ports, saturation bombing of Hanoi and...

What if JFK manages to live to see the end of 1963, but exactly an entire year later he still gets assassinated, but this time around on November 22nd, 1964, only a few weeks after the presidential election. How much could’ve changed over that time? Would JFK have won the election before his...

The idea of RFK as Attorney General was basically only done with Joe Kennedy maneuvering, and congressional leaders not wanting to start off the new administration on the wrong foot. JFK himself was hesitant to the idea, and RFK was only confirmed by a voice vote. New York Times heavily...

At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Johnson's team switched the schedule so that the JFK tribute film and RFK speech would occur following the vice presidential roll call as opposed to before it, as was originally planned. They believed the film would wash the delegates in a nostalgic...