Dbwi lyndon Johnson was not shot

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Shortly after the assaination of president Kennedy. A nervous secret service agent shot and killed vice president Johnson. What if the agent hadnot opened fire on Lyndon Johnson?
 
Actually, Johnson survived but was left paraplegic. The agent in question ended up spending 20 years in prison for his blunder.
 
Actually, Johnson survived but was left paraplegic. The agent in question ended up spending 20 years in prison for his blunder.

OOC: Why you are messing this? OP said that LBJ was killed. So I don't understand that.

IC: There would be lesser conspiracy theories.
 
There would be lesser conspiracy theories.
Yes. The 'CIA did it and then pulled the merely paralyzed Johnson out and hid him in an undisclosed location for decades' conspiracy theory has apparently reached even here

Be warned that promoting conspiracy theories on this board can get you banned.

(all IC)
 
Post assassinations Attorney Gen RKennedy did everything possible to make public Johnson's past. Even tho Kennedy stepped down as AG in 1964 the revelations on LBJ had taken on a life of their own. The successful prosecutions of his former associates were more of a trial of LBJ as them. By 1967 his reputation was beyond the ability of any revisionist to salvage.
 
LBJ as President has two courses.

First & most likely is he is not elected in 1964.

Second is if elected he is impeached circa 1966.

In theory it is possible he could, as President suppress the evidence & survive to reelection in 68, but odds are his enemies would out him relatively early
 
Post assassinations Attorney Gen RKennedy did everything possible to make public Johnson's past. Even tho Kennedy stepped down as AG in 1964 the revelations on LBJ had taken on a life of their own. The successful prosecutions of his former associates were more of a trial of LBJ as them. By 1967 his reputation was beyond the ability of any revisionist to salvage.

OOC: What revelations? That he was secretly pro-civil rights?
 
But we are forgetting the greatest accidental President. McCormack did NOT want the job. Yet he managed to get Civil Rights and moves for economic equality.

It is true that some blamed him for the 'loss' of Vietnam.
 
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