Michael Dutton Douglas lives - impact on JFK shooting?

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Suppose Michael Dutton Douglas had not been killed after being accidently hit by future First Lady Laura Bush, just 2 weeks before JFK's assassination.

Yes he was only a high school senior, but had he somehow managed to be in Dallas on Nov 22, how possibly could he be involved in preventing Kennedy's assasination?
 
Suppose Michael Dutton Douglas had not been killed after being accidently hit by future First Lady Laura Bush, just 2 weeks before JFK's assassination.

Yes he was only a high school senior, but had he somehow managed to be in Dallas on Nov 22

So? There were many high school seniors in Dallas on November 22, as there were many high school seniors on any particular day in Dallas.
 
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Effects like that would be very minute, but potentially build up. Alternate history, I have found, is realistically a future history from the set POD, with fore knowledge of what really happened to understand how things could have gone. Living in the moment, as all reality is living in the moment, so many things could have gone differently within the framework of Lee Harvey Oswald planning to kill the president, and going to that floor and that window and aiming his rifle and shooting. Taking into account a change in history before, you could be assured that things would have gone a bit differently. If you replayed events over and over things would be slightly different because no one plans out every exact thing; we plan out overall things and try to make them work and happen, but the factor of living in the moment and living from moment to moment is never and couldn't be planned out and would always be different on every play through of time. Taking that into account, Oswald could fire later or sooner, or aim different areas or possibly try to target more people, and his actions thereafter would be randomly different in the overall idea of "I have to get out of here" that he had. And things would build up from there like grains of sand on a beach, each grain being all the tiny little details that build up an and action and event. And history thereafter would have it own random differences for all the reasons I outlined before.

The short answer is, history would be mostly the same, then possibly different as time goes on as every playthrough of history would have differences and they build up over time. So we have no clue.
 
Only way I can see it happening if he Forrest Gump's his way into the Book observatory: she loves reading, and it has books, is the only connection I can make. But there were workers at the place who, if they had lingered/moved faster, or decided to see the parade from their office, could have (much easier) prevented the assassination.
 
Yeah, I'm lost. Was he supposed to be there or something?

Purpose is every change in timeline, no matter how small COULD dramatically affect the course of events from that point on.

And suppose Mike Douglas knowing Kennedy would be visiting in 2 weeks, MIGHT decide to go to Dallas and somehow be at or near the Texas School Book Depository and see someone carrying a rifle, how ridiculous it may seem. OR see someone with a rifle looking over fence on grassy knoll.

Anything is possible when you alter history......
 
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But there were workers at the place who, if they had lingered/moved faster, or decided to see the parade from their office, could have (much easier) prevented the assassination.

My pet JFK shooting POD: ;)
Bonnie Ray Williams or Ed Givens change their plans for lunch, and rally all their colleagues to eat their sandwiches at Oswald sixth stage. Oswald face when he see them should be a memorable one...
 

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Suppose Michael Dutton Douglas had not been killed after being accidently hit by future First Lady Laura Bush, just 2 weeks before JFK's assassination.

Yes he was only a high school senior, but had he somehow managed to be in Dallas on Nov 22, how possibly could he be involved in preventing Kennedy's assasination?

I can't decide if this is some bizarre try at a conspiracy theory, a shot a the Bush family, or just plain nuts. Regardless, it is also locked.
 
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