**rubs temples** This was a dark, bleak day in American history, one in which America lost two well-respected leaders - the President and the Vice President.
It started in Dallas, with Lee Harvey Oswald’s bullet striking down President Kennedy. This made Lyndon Johnson the President. For a few hours, anyway.
Oh, I remember the conspiracy theories abounding about how both men were taken down in one day and how it was a conspiracy to put McCormack in the White House. But no one can agree on who wanted to do it - was it the Russians? A bunch of billionaires? The military? No one can agree.
Gerald Blaine, that poor bastard who shot and killed LBJ said in his suicide note that it was an accident. He thought LBJ was breaking into the mansion. I, for one, believe him - he didn’t have any provable connections to much of anybody. But it ruined the man’s life, and he hanged himself in early 1964.
**sighs** What if it had gone down differently? What if even ONE of these men lived? I mean, would the world be, at least, like it was? God, I remember my grandpa telling me about the good old days. They sound just...unreal. Not like this hellscape.
**chugs brown liquid** I just wish I could have seen it. A world that didn’t go to hell in the 60s.
It started in Dallas, with Lee Harvey Oswald’s bullet striking down President Kennedy. This made Lyndon Johnson the President. For a few hours, anyway.
Oh, I remember the conspiracy theories abounding about how both men were taken down in one day and how it was a conspiracy to put McCormack in the White House. But no one can agree on who wanted to do it - was it the Russians? A bunch of billionaires? The military? No one can agree.
Gerald Blaine, that poor bastard who shot and killed LBJ said in his suicide note that it was an accident. He thought LBJ was breaking into the mansion. I, for one, believe him - he didn’t have any provable connections to much of anybody. But it ruined the man’s life, and he hanged himself in early 1964.
**sighs** What if it had gone down differently? What if even ONE of these men lived? I mean, would the world be, at least, like it was? God, I remember my grandpa telling me about the good old days. They sound just...unreal. Not like this hellscape.
**chugs brown liquid** I just wish I could have seen it. A world that didn’t go to hell in the 60s.