D.B.W.I president Kennedy was killed

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How would history from 1963 onwords be diffrent had Presiden tKenendy nhad been assainationed on November 22.1963?
 
Perhaps LBJ could have exploited his death and the outpooring of sympathy for him in order to pass a more comprehensive civil rights bill than the one passed in OTL.
 
Perhaps LBJ could have exploited his death and the outpooring of sympathy for him in order to pass the civil rights bill that was being discussed.

LBJ was a Southern Democrat, and he gutted the CRA of 1957. He's probably going to be a corrupt politician. He will ignore civil rights entirely, and rather than the New Frontier, he'll do nothing.
 
Perhaps LBJ would have avoided messing up the Vietnam War. The way Kennedy mismangaged that war was disgraceful. Thank God, Nixon came in after him and helped clean things up.
 
Perhaps LBJ would have avoided messing up the Vietnam War. The way Kennedy mismangaged that war was disgraceful. Thank God, Nixon came in after him and helped clean things up.

OOC: I'm doubtful Kennedy would escalate Vietnam. He sought to continue Ike's policy of aid, and he saw it as some conflict in the third world. Not to mention Nixon's comeback will probably be butterflied away.

IC: Well, I do think Kennedy had the right idea in ignoring it entirely, as why should the US waste money better spent on the New Frontier than overseas? Also, I do dislike how Nixon sent troops there. It's too bad George Romney was beat at the RNC. He would have probably led the war better than OTL.
 
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OOC: I'm doubtful Kennedy would escalate Vietnam. He sought to continue Ike's policy of aid, and he saw it as some conflict in the third world. Not to mention Nixon's comeback will probably be butterflied away.

IC: Well, I do think Kennedy had the right idea in ignoring it entirely, as why should the US waste money better spent on the New Frontier than overseas? Also, I do dislike how Nixon sent troops there. It's too bad George Romney was beat at the DNC. He would have probably led the war better than OTL.

OOC: Kennedy was a committed cold warrior, anti-communist, and he backed the assassination Ngo Dinh Diem. He helped escalate it to begin with, and it wasn't until the war became unpopular that people like Bobby Kennedy and the rest started claiming that Kennedy would've withdrawn. All of the evidence suggests that he would've indeed escalated it.
 
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