Long Live the King: An MLK Survives Collab TL

April 6th 1969: After failing to secure an opportunity in January, Viktor Ilyin, a deserter from the Soviet Army, fires at Leonid Brezhnev during a parade in Moscow. The leader of the Soviet Union is struck three times before Ilyin is mowed down in a hail of gunfire that fatally injures 2 bystanders. Brezhnev is rushed to the closest hospital. While unconscious and fighting for his life, he remains alive for the remainder of April 6th.
 
August 15th, 1968: Yukio Mishima, an author, playwrite, director, and leader of the Tatenokai has a lunch with his friend and newly elected Councilor, Shintaro Ishihara, that if Mishima wants to change the country he should try and create a politcal party of his own.
December 15th, 1968: Seeing the weakness of American leaders and after meeting with a concerned American who agrees with him (rumored to be CIA), Yukio Mishima decides to make the Tatenokai into a political party.

1) These conflict with what's already been established.
2) Tatenokai had not been founded yet OTL - didn't happen until October. And I established it was founded here w/o Mishima at the helm, since he was already elected to the House of Councillors...

June, 1968, Tokyo - After discussing the matter with his good friend Shintaro Ishihara, Yukio Mishima announces he is running for a House of Councillors seat on the LDP national block slate.

June 7, 1968, Tokyo - Both Mishima and Ishihara win seats. Mishima places first on the LDP list, with a record three million votes.

October, 1968, Tokyo - Masakatsu Morita, Hiroyasu Koga, Masayoshi Koga, and Masahiro Ogawa found the Tatenokai/Sheild Society. (1)

December, 1968, Tokyo - Mishima and Ishihara form the Seikijuku faction (2) with a number of other new members of the House of Councillors. Reports that the facton have made a blood oath gain noteriety. (3)

1 - As per Mishima's running for office keeps him out of it.
2 - Using the name of an uyoku group founded in the early 80s OTL. Name means "Sane Thinkers School".
3 - As per Ishihara's 1973 blood oath with the Seirankai/Summer Storm Group.
 
1) These conflict with what's already been established.
2) Tatenokai had not been founded yet OTL - didn't happen until October. And I established it was founded here w/o Mishima at the helm, since he was already elected to the House of Councillors...
It's better than what I did so I would go with it guys.
 
April 7th 1969: Leonid Brezhnev's condition takes a turn for the worse as Soviet doctors, in their 10th hour of surgery run into multiple problems trying to locate and remove bullet fragments.

April 7th 1969: President Nixon sends a formal declaration to the Soviet Union wishing the leader recovery. Simultaneously, Nixon orders the military to a state of awareness in the event of a potential soviet coup.
The state of the Soviet leader's position is not fully known, and the United States does not have evidence suggesting it is life threatening. Bombing missions in Vietnam continue unimpeded.
 
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April 8th 1969: As Brezhnev's condition worsens, reports out of Moscow indicate that supporters of Premier Alexei Kosygin and Chairman of the Presidium Nikolai Podgorny are readying themselves for a power struggle in the event that he does not survive
 
April 9th 1969: News begins to break across the leadership of the Soviet union that Brezhnev has succumbed to his injuries. Across the nation members in the leadership scramble for the shuffle of power.

April 13th 1969: News reaches the White House on the believed death of Brezhnev.
 
January 23rd, 1969, Chicago - William O'Neal is spotted by Henry "Mickey" Cogwell in a bar, talking with a Chicago Police Department plainclothes detective. (1)

February 3rd, 1969, Chicago
- O'Neal fails to make his regular meeting with FBI Agent Roy Martin Mitchell. (2)

February 8th, 1969, Chicago - O'Neal's body is found in Woodlawn, killed execution style. Jeff Fort, of the Black P Stone Nation privately informs Chairman Fred Hampton that "we found a rat problem and took care of it for you..." (3)

1 - O'Neal was a petty criminal who the FBI used as an informant and counterintelligence operative. He infiltrated the Chicago BPP starting in late 1968. He became a close associate of and bodyguard to Hampton. Mickey Cogwell was the number two man of the BPSN gang, Chicago allies of the BPP. The departure here from OTL is the risky meeting with a CPD detective.
2 - Mitchell is the agent who ran O'Neal OTL.
3 - OTL, the FBI used O'Neal as part of an effort to drive a wedge between the BPP and BPSN.
 
April 14th, 1969 - An official spokesman for General Secretary Brezhnev dismisses reports of his demise as mere rumors, and that the Soviet leader is recovering from his injuries
 
April 21st, 1969, Zhenbao/Damansky Island - 2 companies of PLA infantry with artillery support ambush a company Soviet border guards. By the end of the engagement, 123 Soviets lay dead. (1)

1 - OTL incident was on March 2, 1969. Pushed it back a bit here. Also, OTL incident involved platoon sized units and resulted in fewer casualties.
 
April 22nd, 1969 - President Nixon demands a line be connected between him and Leonid Brezhnev or that evidence of his survival be provided to the international community via the United Nations following the actions on the Sino-Soviet border. His demands are met with silence.

April 23rd, 1969 - A large buildup of Soviet armed forces begins to flood around the Sino-Soviet border as sporadic artillery fire echoes across both sides of the border.

April 24th, 1969 - President Nixon dispatches Secretary of State Nelson Rockefeller and Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Dewey to the United Nations to call for an immediate end to hostilities on the Sino-Soviet border. The United States moves to DEFCON 3 given the uncertainty of the Soviet leadership's stability. US military forces are put on even further alert in the Mediterranean and Far East. Forces stand at REDCON 2 in South Korea and Japan. Bombings in Laos, Cambodia, South and North Vietnam ramp up as previously planned.

April 25th, 1969 - Some in the leadership of North Vietnam begin discussing the possibility of renewed peace negotiations. These discussions begin in part because of increased bombings, but also out of fear that China will be unable to secure the North from direct invasion should hostilities continue between them and the Soviets.
 
March 8, 1969, Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami - Jim Morrison drops his pants, exposing himself completely and unambiguously. Police rush the stage, arresting him immediately. Three people, including a police officer, are killed in the resulting riot. (1)

October 7, 1969 - Morrison is convicted on two counts of Lewd and lascivious behavior in public, two counts of incitement, and multiple counts of indecent exposure, open public profanity, and public drunkenness. He is sentenced to 10 years in Raiford State Penitentiary. (2)

1 - Date change, and obviously amped up the event. OTL, police avoided arresting Morrison on stage in order to avoud just this result. Here, his behavior is outrageous enough to trigger a worst case result.

2 - He's getting off light-ish.
 
10 years? 10 weeks sounds more apropriate
Four felony counts, each of which carries up to 5 years, especially consider a cop was killed in the riot. No way he's getting 10 weeks, especially in the aftermath of Florida's 1967 tougher antiriot statutes.
 
April 26th 1969: Nixon is met with another day of unresponsive Soviet leadership as tensions rise to the breaking point along the Sino-Soviet border, with Chinese and Soviet forces exchanging fire across entrenchment positions.

April 27th 1969: Soviet forces operating off of unclear orders cross over into the People's Republic of China. Sparking an unofficial Soviet invasion of the country. The United States strongly condemns the Soviet action and demands they explain their recent actions in the United Nations. In a call with the Chinese leadership, Nixon declares neutrality as the situation stands but that the United States will not stand idly if nuclear weapons are utilized on either side.
 
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