Change of death date as POD

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 in the hospital in July 1974. If he died then, Ford does not pardon him and wins in 1976.
 
Kennedy assassinated in late 1960 The link.

Anybody else read Jeff Greenfield's AH story about a successful assassination of President Elect Kennedy in December 1960. The Electoral College had not yet met. LBJ successfully asks the Electoral College to choose Hubert Humphrey as Vice President. In 1961, Johnson passes a voting rights act. The Cuban Missile Crisis gets violent. The Soviets nuke Gitmo and we nuke the Black Sea Fleet. After the bombs drop, Johnson collapses. Greenfield leaves us with Humphrey talking on the phone to Khruschev. He does not tell us what happens to Johnson. It got me excited thinking about a Humphrey Administration ( 1962 - 1969}, A Great Society or whatever his pr people would have called i, incredible progress on civil rights and no Vietnam War.
 
Richard Nixon had health troubles in 1974. He spent time in the hospital in July 1974. If he died then, Ford does not pardon him and wins in 1976.

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Not pardoning Nixon wouldn't be enough to overcome the myriad issues faced by Ford in '76.
 
Not pardoning Nixon wouldn't be enough to overcome the myriad issues faced by Ford in '76.
1976 was really close though; it wouldn't take much to swing it.

Also, Nixon dying would make the Republican Party seem a bit more sympathetic and could help them in the midterms in 1974. Maybe the Florida Senate election (2.5 point margin) and Vermont Senate election (3.1 point margin) could flip.
 
Not pardoning Nixon wouldn't be enough to overcome the myriad issues faced by Ford in '76.

A change of ~50,000 votes in Ohio and Wisconsin would have resulted in Ford's victory. Not having to pardon Nixon would give him enough support to plausibly win reelection.
 
If certain historical figures had died at different time, it would have changed history.

One assumes you are excluding different outcomes to attempted or successful assassinations, and deaths by sudden accident.

Also, of course, deaths in early life of people who became historical figures.

The subject therefore comes down to natural deaths of historical figures earlier or later than their OTL natural deaths, but still near the same date.

Let us say up to one year earlier or later.

Warren G. Harding: a year earlier, and IIRC the Teapot Dome scandal cannot be buried with him; it will plague Coolidge in the 1924 election. A year later, and he may be such a handicap to the GOP that he is pushed off the ticket in 1924.

King George V: a year later, and Edward VII may never be King.

Neville Chamberlain: a year earlier, and someone other than Churchill probably succeeds as Prime Minister. Or Churchill succeeds, and may be forced out of office after the Norway debacle.

Ioannis Metaxas: A year earlier, and he is not there to rally Greece against Italy's invasion.

Franklin Roosevelt: A year earlier, and the Democrats have to find a new Presidential candidate in 1944. A year later, and he attends the Potsdam Conference instead of Truman.

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (the Shah of Iran): A year earlier and the Iran hostage crisis may never happen.

Pope John Paul I: A year earlier, and he's never Pope at all.
 
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If certain historical figures had died at different time, it would have changed history.
PODs are indeed often about a given historical figure dying at a different time. It's very easy to arrange because death is about as random an event as it gets. Examples are too many to list but to take just British prime ministers from the 20th century, Churchill narrowly avoided being run over by a car in 1931, Attlee was the penultimate British soldier to leave Suvla Bay in 1916, and Thatcher wasn't in her hotel room when a bomb planted by the IRA detonated in 1984.

One TL I have a soft spot for that begins with the premature death of a historical figure is With Iron and Fire (now available at Meadow's Sea Lion Press :cool:).
 
Chief Justice Edward D White. If he dies a year earlier, his successor is appointed by Wilson. So Taft is almost certainly never CJ, and it's not even certain that Hughes will (though a Republican POTUS will likely bring him back as an Associate Justice at some point.

If John W Davis is appointed, there may not be another CJ until 1955.
 
Chief Justice Melville Fuller. If he dies in 1907 instead of 1910, TR probably appoints William Howard Taft as CJ, so that someone else (Root? Knox?) will become POTUS in 1908. Could have repercussions for 1912, though probably not enough to save the Republicans unless Taft's replacement is a lot more popular than he was.

While on the subject, if CJ Taney lives another year, then the Senate has little choice but to accept an Andrew Johnson appointee. Any thoughts on who?
 
If certain historical figures had died at different time, it would have changed history.
Seriously? Some of the most famous scenarios in published, and forum, AH, are based on precisely this premise. We know this. Literally all of us know this. Such a fact does not need top be pronounced from on high, like the God of history has just unveiled this Platonic Truth to you on a mountaintop.

Do you actually want to discuss either of the scenarios you mention, or are you going to continue with random declarations?
 
If TR dies during the 1916 election campaign, then Hughes may well win. There was a lot of fear that TR might have too much influence on a Hughes Administration, esp about entering WW1.
 
Had Brezhnev been shot in 1969 by Viktor Ilyin, Kosygin would have become General Secretary.

Had Stalin died on the first Victory Parade or in October 1945, either Beria or Malenkov comes to power.

Had Yeltsin died in June 1996 due to a heart attack, Zyuganov would have won the 1996 Russian Presidential Elections, and maybe Russia recovers faster from the post-1996 economic crisis.
 
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Warren G. Harding: a year earlier, and IIRC the Teapot Dome scandal cannot be buried with him; it will plague Coolidge in the 1924 election. A year later, and he may be such a handicap to the GOP that he i pushed off the ticket in 1924.

Unlikely. He was personally popular. At some point he would have to sack certain of his Cabinet, but if he wants the 1924 nomination he will still get it, and given the condition of the Democrats is a pretty good bet to win in November.

However, istr reading that he intended to drop Coolidge from the ticket, and had mentioned Charles G Dawes as a replacement. If he lives into 1925 then dies in office, President Dawes (or whoever) will almost certainly be re-elected in 1928. So Hoover will most likely never be POTUS, and comes through the Depression with his reputation intact. Any thoughts on his future?
 
In music, I remember reading that Lou Reed nearly got electrocuted during an early Velvet Underground rehearsal.

He recalled that a long guitar string hanging off the neck of his guitar was burned by an unearthed microphone. Bandmate Stirling Morrison was the only one that noticed, and said to Lou "don't move" while the power was switched off.
 
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