DBWI: Nixon Not Assassinated in 1963

[imperialaquila]

If you remove Nixon's assassination, you introduce butterflies which will likely affect the Kennedy assassination. There's nothing in the universe forcing Kennedy to be shot, hospitalized and in a coma and dying of his wounds later as he was, or nor alternately killed by an exploding plane or a deranged Palestinian or whatever possible death scenario one could dream up.

Maybe without the assassination of Nixon, the Secret Service would be less focused on stopping a lone gunman with a pistol, and give more weight to a potential sniper attack? That could prevent Kennedy's assassination.

 

[CaliBoy1990]

OOC: I'm sorry I tried to hack the scenario. Please stop calling me a fly that you need to "swat." It was wrong of me to go away from the point of the OP. I just wanted to see what would happen if I acted like I was from a different universe. I will stick to the point of the OP for now on.

Okay then. You're welcome to join back in at any time.

Maybe without the assassination of Nixon, the Secret Service would be less focused on stopping a lone gunman with a pistol, and give more weight to a potential sniper attack? That could prevent Kennedy's assassination.

Perhaps so. You know, this reminds me of a similar plot by the KKK to blow up Kennedy's limo in Dallas in November of 1963, after he signed the Civil Rights Bill.....I've wondered for sometime if similar conspirators might have done in JFK on 11/9/65(the shooter, James Von Brunn, did have some recent connections with the Klan and other groups)?

 

[Apollo 20]

What if Former Vice President Richard Nixon was not assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963? Would he have ever regained any decent amount of political strength or substantial sway in the Republican Party?

Nixon was a canny old SOB; given the turbulence that was the second Kennedy administration with Vietnam and the protests, his prolonged illness and hospitalization and the violence associated with those opposing civil rights as well as the riots, he might possibly have reinvented himself as some sort of "law and order" man and been able to make a run for it in '68. It's something of a longshot as he was politically dead in '63 when that nutjob Oswald decided to knock him off, but given that era, who knows for sure? I mean, who would have thought in '63 that Wallace would give LBJ a real run for the nomination in '68 and that LBJ, despite a party as badly divided as the one Truman had in '48 would have pulled off the upset he did against Rocky? Or that LBJ would pull the plug on Vietnam as fast as he did in that first year of his term when the election of '68 was playing out and he was ostensibly running as a proponent of the war?

 

[imperialaquila]

Perhaps so. You know, this reminds me of a similar plot by the KKK to blow up Kennedy's limo in Dallas in November of 1963, after he signed the Civil Rights Bill.....I've wondered for sometime if similar conspirators might have done in JFK on 11/9/65(the shooter, James Von Brunn, did have some recent connections with the Klan and other groups)?

Well, given Brunn's suicide, we'll never know for certain. I personally doubt it; it doesn't take a network to plan and execute a shooting, just a single (extremely dedicated/crazy) shooter. Occam's Razor dictates that it was most likely a single crazy man. Though, granted, the possibility that he had help among fellow KKK members is a lot less far-fetched than some stuff I've seen about LBJ or Wallace being involved.

Do remember that Our Lord Ian considers such talk conspiracy theory, especially if it involves LBJ, and that's frowned on here.