1960s

Microhistory is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary: "Historical study which addresses a specific or localized subject; a historical account of this nature, a case study." Often, history is told in long, broad strokes, with the narrative centered on key figures of great socio-cultural...

After he lost the Presidency in 1960 and the California Governorship in 1962, most assumed that Richard Nixon's political career was over. But in 1968 he was renominated by the GOP and he defeated Vice-President Hubert Humphrey in November. After two ignominious defeats, it's hard to see why...

The POD is that neither Goldwater or Rockefeller obtain enough delegates to win the Republican Presidential nomination in 1964. A brokered convention puts forward moderate Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton as a compromise candidate, and he goes on to face President Johnson in November...

The POD is JFK experiences a health scare in 1959 that convinces him to sit out the 1960 election and instead wait for 1964. Without Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey wins the Democratic nomination and faces Vice-President Nixon in the general. Who wins the election?

Many assume that had he not been assassinated, RFK would've won the 1968 Democratic nomination and beaten Nixon in November. While there's no doubt Kennedy would've swept the primaries after winning California, and he probably would've beaten Nixon if nominated given how close Humphrey came in...

After losing the 1960 Presidential election, Nixon made a political comeback upon his close election as Governor of California in 1962. Nixon won the state by only .7%, and he very easily could have lost. What if Brown had defeated Nixon? Would Nixon still be able to run for President again? Or...

In 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy was pressured to run for President by many anti-war liberals. Yet Kennedy chose not to enter the campaign, and instead endorsed Eugene McCarthy following the New Hampshire primary. What might've happened had RFK decided to run for President in 1968?

The POD is Nixon takes Eisenhower's advice and declines to debate JFK on TV. In November, Nixon barely prevails over Kennedy in both the popular vote and the electoral college. On January 20, 1961 Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 35th President of the United States and assumes leadership of a...

OTL, the 1967 Riots in Hong Kong was severe in its own right. One outspoken critic of the Cultural Revolution, Lam Bun, was killed in an arsonist attack. However, as the leftist rioters had the support of Mao Zedong, things could have gone worse. So what if the Hong Kong leftists went more...

Robert Kennedy came extremely close to death while campaigning for President in 1968. As he celebrated his recent primary victory in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel, a young Palestinian nationalist named Sirhan Sirhan pulled a gun on him. Sirhan managed to get a few shots off, but...

It stands out on a highway Like a creature from another time. It inspires the babies' questions, "What's that?" For their mothers as they ride. But no one stopped to think about the babies Or how they would survive, And we almost lost Detroit this time. -"We Almost Lost Detroit" by Gil...

In 1968, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey scored a surprise upset victory over former Vice-President and 1960 Republican nominee Richard Nixon. Most scholarship has attributed the election result to Humphrey's decision to reveal that Nixon had sabotaged the Vietnam Peace Talks for his own...

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One of the most infamous decisions in cinema history was George Lazenby's rejection of a one million dollar deal to play James Bond in six more movies after "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969). His agent told him that Bond was a fad who would be irrelevant in the 1970's. Lazenby foolishly...

The POD is the United States doesn't divide Indochina at Geneva in 1954, and free elections see a united Vietnam twenty-one years early. Back at home, US Presidential elections from 1956 to 1964 follow the same course and in 1968 LBJ is still President. Without the Vietnam War dividing the...

What if, instead of organizing a rag-tag group of Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro, either Eisenhower or Kennedy recognizes the scheme won't work and they shut down the invasion plans? Would Castro still become a Communist and move into the Soviet sphere of influence? How would...

Even before he became Eisenhower's VP, Richard Nixon was an extremely powerful and influential politician. As a Congressman he prosecuted Alger Hiss and proposed the notorious Mundt-Nixon Bill. Thomas Dewey's opposition to the bill helped him win the Republican primaries in 1948, but he...

POD: Lee Harvey Oswald is denied a job at the Dallas Book Depository Building, depriving him of the vantage point that allowed him to kill President Kennedy. JFK works with both parties to pass the Civil Rights Act in the summer of 1964 (despite popular myth, the Act had enough overwhelming...

In his memoirs, Richard Nixon contended that had he won the 1960 election he wouldn't have been assassinated like JFK. But how true is this claim in reality? Kennedy was in Dallas on 11/22/63 to lay the groundwork for his 1964 re-election campaign, build up some Southern support for the Civil...

The idea here, is either JFK is not assassination (Or lives long enough.) to withdraw America from Vietnam, and cut support to Saigon. Or Nixon wins the 1960 election, and simply throws South Vietnam under the bus. Without American aid, or boots on the ground, the South is unable to hold back...