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The high lights of April 1915: Allied victory at Gallipoli The Ottoman Empire surrenders. The supply line to Russia is secure. The US declares war against Germany,The Germans had begun unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1915. In March 1915, it was discovered that German Foreign...

POD #1 Ron Goldman gets there later. He sees OJ running from Nichole's house covered in blood. He goes in, sees Nichole's body and calls the police and tells them what he has seen. POD # 2 involves an OTL witness who testified before the grand jury. She said at an intersection a few blocks from...

The first POD comes on November 4. 1979. The takeover of the US Embassy in Teheran is delayed for one week. November 4, 1980, is not day 365 of the hostage crisis. The hostage crisis gets less attention. Ronald Reagan beats Jimmy Carter 47% to 45%. The Democrats win most of the 9 Republican...

We who were old enough to have paid attention in 1995, saw Marcia Clark perform incompletely as the head prosecutor of the OJ case. She did not tell the jury about O J's flight. I do not know about California's jury instructions in 1995, but in my state in 1990, we as a jury were instructed to...

In Good News All Around my perennial TL in which the Democratic Party enjoys maximum plausible success, ( The next edition is due in November, when I increase Hillary's margin of victory.) I had Rick Santorium win the 2012 Republican nomination. I thought with the drop off in Republican votes...

I can't remember the title of the book, but I read that the real decision about Obama's running mate was between Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. One was to be Vice President and the other to be Secretary of State. Evan Bayh and Tim Kaine were secondary choices. What would have happened if they...

First I would have win the 1941 Senate special election that he lost OTL. I would have him win reelection in 1942 and 1948. He replaces, Alban Berkley as Majority Leader in 1949. He would, like OTL, transform it into a powerful position. When he takes office as Vice President, he would be de...

If certain historical figures had died at different time, it would have changed history. For example, if Antonin Scalia had died a year earlier, the Republican Senate would have confirmed Sri Sirnivasan and we would have a liberal court. Richard Nixon had health troubles in 1974. He spent time...

If the Supreme Court was liberal, would Senate Republicans have a problem with Obama naming Scalia's successor. To help you think this over, I will supply the one of my many Supreme Court TLs that gives us the most liberal Supreme Court. The first POD is in 1946, when Truman changes his mind...

The French government and military evacuates to Algeria and continues the war. What does Japan do about French Indo China? When would they be ready to go to war with France and the UK? Would there be an earlier Pacific War? Would they have left Indo China alone and not faced the sanctions from...

There was a witness who testified to the O J grand jury. She said that at about 10;45 PM on the night of the murder she was driving and approaching an intersection with the street called Bundy. The street where Nichole lived. She saw on Bundy a Ford Bronco running a red light. She recognized the...

The first POD comes on the morning of May 15, 1972. Arthur Bremer is arrested for shoplifting and can't shot Wallace. Wallace accepts the nomination of the American Independent Party. The second POD comes on September 27, 1972, when Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward writes a front page story...

What if Stauffenberg realized that setting the bombs will be hard for him because of his missing fingers. What if he brings an Anti Hitler junior officer, with ten fingers to assist him. The aide is able to set both bombs before the meeting. The blast kills Hitler. The coup goes forward. The SS...

I was inspired to write this when I read that was a new story in fall 1970, that said Nixon planned to dump Agnew in 1972 and replace him with George H W Bush. Bush was running against Lloyd Bentsen for the Senate at the time. The story hurt him with Texas voters who wanted their Senator to...

I am reading Stephen Ambrose's biography of Eisenhower. He discusses how Eisenhower came to a decision to run for reelection. He also waited until after medical tests for doctors to approve his running for reelection. What if his heart attack was more serious and he does not run? I think Nixon...

I once read in an AH anthology a TL where RFK lives but Humphrey still wins the nomination. Which I think is the most plausible scenario. The TL had RFK becoming HHH' s running mate and a united Democratic Party winning the election. If this did happen, I think RFK would have trouble winning the...

The least complicated way to get Bork on the Court is to have President Reagan nominate him to replace William Rehnquist, when Rehnquist was nominated to be Chief Justice in 1986. There eight conservative Republican Senators who were defeated or retired in the 1986 elections. OTL the Senate vote...

The POD is that FDR agrees to go along with a League of Nations sponsored oil embargo of Italy following the invasion of Ethiopia. Mussolini is overthrown. The new government does not want to antagonize other nations. So it does not make an alliance with Hitler. Following the fall of France...

In a campaign speech Wendell Willkie said that if Roosevelt was reelected, the US would be at war by April 1941. What if he was right? The POD comes on April 7, 1941 when a German submarine sinks a US battleship in the middle of the Atlantic the entire crew of 1000 is feared dead or...

On November 24, 1963. When the police were going to transport Oswald from the City Lockup to the County Jail, they moved him through a long hallway where reporters were waiting to ask Oswald questions. It was there that Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald. Before leaving, Oswald asked for a...