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***** When it comes to the men on white horses who dot American history, John Fitzgerald Kennedy ranks highly among them. There’s plenty of reasons why this might be the case. Maybe it’s the seminal moments of his presidency: his steady leadership through the Cuban Missile Crisis, his...

Unfortunately, poor George McGovern received one of the largest electoral buttkickings in American history. Losing the popular vote by 23 points, and winning a single state, Massachusetts, McGovern's campaign became something to avoid for decades to come in the Democratic party. McGovern's loss...

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...

What if JFK lived through the end of his second term, instead of dying of Addison's Disease in 1966. What kind of effect would he have on domestic and foreign policy during his last two years in office? And what kind of effect could we see on the USSR? ITL, Khrushchev wouldn't have gone to the...

At Parkland Hospital, following the assassination of President Kennedy a potentially serious dispute arose between the President's security detail and the local coroner for Dallas, Texas one Earl Rose. . Mr. Rose insisted that Kennedy's body was not leaving until there had been a proper...

Viva Kennedy is an Alternate Timeline in which President John F. Kennedy does not pass away on November 22nd, 1963. After the assassination attempt, Kennedy's popularity skyrocketed, from his lowest approval rating ever at 58% in late-1963 to a resounding 78%, the highest its been since the...

"RFK announces presidential candidacy" - Headline of the Washington Post, 11th December 1967 "Kennedy is plausible. He's not a Johnson or Humphrey, he's not tied to that [Johnson's] administration, the American people will rally around him, he is the one of the few men in this campaign to lead...

Fighting Liberals: A Tale of the Eastern Establishment, Rockefeller-Republicans, and Political Dynasties Hi, everyone! I have been a member of AlternateHistory.com for a few years now, but have never published a timeline of my own. I think it's a good time to rectify that. The idea for this...

As said in wikipedia, Kennedy went to his first trip abroad in 1935, going to London with his parents and his sister Kathleen. He intended to to study under Harold Laski at the London School of Economics, but bad healthy forced him to go back to America, going to Princenton and after that to...

What if there is no Chappaquiddick and Kennedy challenges Nixon? I know conventional wisdom is that "anyone" would lose to Nixon that year, but is that really the case? The narrative of the election would have been fundamentally different. It'd be a brutal campaign. How would it have gone? How...

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While Kennedy's victory was likely and comfortable, it was not certain. Keating seemed to underestimate the threat and there was an infamous scuffle between Keating at a debate where he appeared to be literally running from the questions. What would happen if enough things fall in place that...

Kennedy's first choice On the afternoon of July 14, 1960, Democratic Presidential nominee John F. Kennedy made official his chosen running mate for that year's election - Missouri Senator Stuart Symington. The decision was not especially surprising - as Kennedy and Symington had a strong...

I've heard what people think Kennedy would do if he weren't assassinated, but I wonder what he would do after. Assume he serves only the one term or both both if you want. What does he do after the Presidency? Does he stay in politics? Write books? Raise his family?

Suppose that the 1960 presidential election goes further down the wire, and the Kennedy-Johnson ticket holds a plurality of the electoral and popular vote, but falls short of the magic number of 268 electors. Harry Byrd and his unpledged electors make known their demands regarding segregation...

As the title says. Make the Kennedys as powerful and enduring a political dynasty as possible! Bonus points if you get Joe Jr. to survive WW2 and make him president too.

The Four Horsemen: the Nuclear Apocalypse of 1962 Prologue Fortunately for a generation of post-war historians seeking to explain how World War III came about, there is a fairly abundant amount of sources available. This may seem surprising given the enormous amount of devastation inflicted by...

After a long a tumultuous campaign season, the 1960 election has finally come to a close. But the results are unlike anything anyone would've expected. In the aftermath of eight years of a popular Eisenhower administration, it seemed common sense that Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon would...

With a POD of January 1, 1960 or afterwards, your challenge is to have Robert F. Kennedy elected US President in 1968 - followed by Ronald Reagan in 1976.

For a scenario I'm working on, I need your help with a couple of points. Here is the basic premise: The assassination attempt on the life of US President John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963 fails, only wounding him and sending him into a coma for a couple of days. After regaining...