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Let's say that the B-26 LBJ was on really did come under Japanese fire. There are some like Robert Caro who still believe it did--but even if in fact the plane's generator problems forced it to turn back before engaging the enemy, let's assume (1) that it doesn't have those problems, or (2) that LBJ gets on another B-26 ("Lt. Col. Francis Stevens died in the one B-26 that was shot down that day. In a twist of fate, Johnson originally had boarded that B-26. After a bathroom break, Johnson got on a different plane nicknamed the 'Heckling Hare.'" https://web.archive.org/web/2008061...2001/johnson.silver.star/story/storypage.html) Anyway, LBJ is killed. Consequences? Senator Coke Stevenson? No Civil Rights Act of 1957? A race between JFK-Symington and Nixon-Lodge in 1960?