Camelot Revisited: Cultural and Persons Suggestions Thread

As I plan the Camelot Revisited TL to be my opus, I plan on including chapters about cultural events (at least on a decade-covering basis). I also plan on throwing in a lot of famous people, which is kind of a obvious thing, but I want to do as much as I can.

So therefore, I open this thread for any suggestions for the culture of this parallel world, and suggestions on where persons of note may have ended up following the POD and what paths they may have taken instead (whether involved with the POD or just stuff they could have done instead regardless of it). The timeline should be moving into 1964 and hence the real nuts and bolts by January so anything posted could well get put to use soon.

Timeline can be found here:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=141742
 
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Bumpity.

This stuff is important for the TL to be tip top as can be. If you need a rough situation of stuff to come/possibly come with which to work, just use intuition or go off of the Kennedyarchy deal.
 
Cultural events are not included in the Kennedyarchy, which is strictly political. Look at some people affiliated with the Kennedy Center. Your Majesty: I'll try to post some names of Hickory Hill seminarians (lecturers, not priests) tomorrow. George Plimpton, Arthur Schlesinger, Jack Newfield, Robert Scheer were all media associates of RFK IOTL. EDIT: If you want, you could always discuss Marilyn Monroe's relationship with the President, which would give us a Clintonian twist...
 
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Cultural events are not included in the Kennedyarchy, which is strictly political. Look at some people affiliated with the Kennedy Center.
I'm not talking about any cultural events in the Kennedyarchy. Heck, if any were there, I wouldn't have made this thread. I'm talking about political/policy issues and historical factors that would/could therefore effect people and culture. IE (and I would have preferred to let this be discussed by someone else since I think the idea should be discussed) a Goldwater-Republican Hillary Clinton who remains with that ideology and party because not enough changes made her leave the GOP due to factor A,B,C, and D. Unfortunately, I can't discuss this too much because I have certain ideas I don't wanna give away.

Your Majesty: I'll try to post some names of Hickory Hill seminarians (lecturers, not priests) tomorrow. George Plimpton, Arthur Schlesinger, Jack Newfield, Robert Scheer were all media associates of RFK IOTL.
Any help is appreciated.
 
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Well, a Republican POTUS Hillary Rodham would certainly be interesting. Perhaps if you move Roe up a few years, we could get some fireworks. Also, shuffling RFK off to another Cabinet post (as was planned IOTL) could get some high-profile porn indictments. Not that the Admin's foremost SoCon was against indictments, but rather it would be rather "hypocritical" (RFK) given his brother's extracurricular activities. A new AG such as Katzenbach or Ramsey Clark could get the major porn publishers. I'll PM you the publisher's name tomorrow. Also, I'm interested in your plans for Edgar.
 
I'd like to see something about the Beatles. Hopefully they are still as sucessful in your TL as they were in real life, but maybe their music would develop differently, as well as their break-up and post-beatles careers.

Assuming they break up in your timeline that is....;)
 
I'd like to see something about the Beatles. Hopefully they are still as sucessful in your TL as they were in real life, but maybe their music would develop differently, as well as their break-up and post-beatles careers.

Assuming they break up in your timeline that is....;)
There will be Beatles. What may happen is a secret, however.;)

You're free to suggest possibilities and break down how their music would develop differently, however.
 
I've heard that Kennedy was a fan of the James Bond books, and he apparently liked the film version of Dr.No as well, so maybe be you could work this into your timeline as well. I for one can imagine Kennedy making a cameo appearance on one of the films. Maybe he even plays himself as President!:D
 
This is an ancient little bugger I was actually quite sad never took off as much as I hoped it would have. Camelot Revisited is returning after an upcoming Beatles TL.

In the meantime, does anyone else have any more ideas? Really, throw out anything: Leslie Nielsen as Captain Kirk, the Xerox Alto taking off, CED making it, George Lucas becoming Indie king, whatever.
 
I've heard that Kennedy was a fan of the James Bond books, and he apparently liked the film version of Dr.No as well, so maybe be you could work this into your timeline as well. I for one can imagine Kennedy making a cameo appearance on one of the films. Maybe he even plays himself as President!:D

Both brothers were, it stemmed from earlier prewar novels. I am quite certain that Bobby's later passion for any and everything SpecOps-related, to the point of having a mock Green Beret training camp built on his estate, stemmed at least in part from that. Or as Ian Fleming's wife once put it, "he is obsessed with Ian's books."
 
Hmm...Now what about how an alternate Growth of the Civil Rights Movement might develop and what affects that could have on Black Popular Culture? It all comes down to whether or not Jack can get the CRA out of Commitee fast enough in 1964 or he waits till 1965 after winning his second term to push it through...If he get's it on his almost-assasination in '64 then I don't think we'll see much difference from OTL.

But if he waits till '65, we could see a much larger contingent of the Black population move away from the theory of "nonviolence and concillitation" and accepting the Black Power Ideology. If you keep Malcolm X alive as well, he could have solidifed his control over that side of the movement which the likes of Seale, Newton and Davis kind of took control of IOTL in his absence.

With a much more centralized Black Power movement, we could start to see Black Music Production Company's (ie. Motown) shift from the module they used in the early 60's of Crossover-friendly Pop fluff, to a much heavier almost Rolling Stonesque type of sound...that type of Angry, guitar heavy stuff(Pre-Punk/Metal) that seems to beckon Revolution...

That's all that I can think of off the top of my head this morning, but Ill keep thinking about it.:D
 
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