robert f kennedy

Coming very soon! What if LBJ stepped aside for Bobby Kennedy to follow in his brothers footsteps in 1964?

Riders On The Storm - A Romney Timeline For the sake of prefacing, I will state the following. Firstly, this is not a timeline where I will interject my own beliefs. I will not be attempting to whitewash Romney as some wholesome liberal who will usher in a better world, nor will I use it to...

In my opinion, Robert F. Kennedy was destined to run for President in 1968, as he did IOTL. The combination of Vietnam, urban decay, and Kennedy’s own disapproval of President Johnson, make his entry inevitable. However, IOTL Kennedy dragged his feet on the decision. He, as well as several...

Many years ago I read a few biographies on Robert F. Kennedy. In September 1967, prominent political activist Allard Lowenstein was trying to draft someone to run as the anti-war candidate against President Johnson in the 1968 Democratic primaries. His first choice was Robert F. Kennedy, and he...

Let’s say Robert F. Kennedy survives his encounter with his OTL assassin Sirhan Sirhan, but still loses the nomination to Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey loses just like IOTL, and Nixon becomes President. Bobby remains in the Senate, winning re-election in 1970. Does Bobby Kennedy run for president in...

"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...

Jeff Greenfield wrote a great book about some potential alternate histories and one was about if in 1960 a few weeks after winning the presidency Richard Pavlick who in real life almost killed president-elect Kennedy in a suicide bombing actually decided to go through with it and succeed. But...

Sequel to: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-new-frontier-with-new-challenges-jfk-survives.437104/ Chapter One The President had only begun to drift off to a quick nap at his desk in his private office after a shot of morphine earlier when the phone on his desk roused him from...

IOTL, Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy went against his brother's advice and picked a southerner, Lyndon B. Johnson, to be his running mate. However, Bobby Kennedy wanted his brother to pick a labor-friendly liberal, namely Walter Reuther. What if Kennedy listened to his brother's advice and...

June 5, 1968: Senator Robert F. Kennedy is on his way to address a crowd of supporters for the second time that night when his bodyguard William Barry tells him that his plans have changed and that he will instead be holding a press conference. Kennedy, however, is determined to speak to his...

The origins of this fragment of a TL lie in the backstories I have written for my 'Stories from a Changed World' TL. This bit seemed to stand on its own so I have edited it to remove the ASB elements and now post it here. It won't go any further, but if you want to see the ASB version look at my...

As we all know, on June 5, 1968, then-Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was nearly assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a pro-Palestinian activist, as he walked through the Ambassador Hotel's kitchen following his victory in the South Dakota and California primaries. On his way to...

As any history buff knows, Robert F. Kennedy was one of only two U.S. Presidents to have been the brother of another President. His older brother John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960, while RFK was elected in 1976. What POD would it take to prevent Bobby Kennedy from becoming President? And what...

I would like to see a timeline that has Henry Cabot Lodge actually pursuing the presidency in 1964, leading to him being nominated over Goldwater, and RFK being nominated for vice president as Johnson feels forced to after the nomination of a moderate Republican. This is a possible 1964 election...

After completing my first timeline, I had many members ask me to keep it going, so here's the second installment of a fictional 2nd Administration with President John F. Kennedy, starting in February 1965.

We all know that on June 5, 1968 RFK was nearly assassinated by a man named Sirhan Sirhan. Luckily RFK had gone in the opposite direction of the kitchen where Sirhan was and avoided death. Eventually the wannabe assassin left the hotel and was arrested two days later, but what if Kennedy had...

Here's a challenge. Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy survives his assassination unharmed. Under the circumstances of either Humphrey as President and Kennedy as Vice President, or Kennedy as President and Humphrey as Vice President, what does such an administration look like?

Richard Nixon campaigning in South Carolina 1979 President Carter's reorganization efforts meet with only partial as the attempt to separated the Department of Health, Education and Welfare into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services was defeated thanks to...

(This is a redo of my RFK 1980 TL with a bit of better research and a better backstory November 12 1967: WASHINGTON POST: ROBERT F KENNEDY WILL NOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT Despite all the hoopla senator Kennedy (D-NY) has decided not to run for president in 1968 to follow in his late brother's...

POD:Robert F Kennedy sits out 1968 leading to Eugene McCarthy being assassinated instead of RFK. From the book Number 40-2006 After becoming senator in 1970 and a failed run at the presidency in a razor thin loss in the primaries to Jimmy Carter Robert F Kennedy finally in 1980 followed in his...