President Oswald

Your challenge is simple, get Lee Harvey Oswald to become president of the United States, with a pod of 1939. Bonus if JFK is his vp:cool:
 
Oswald definitely had the ambition to fuel such an attempt but I highly doubt his temperament would have served him well during the years/decades it would have taken him to achieve this goal.

From my understanding the man was mildly manic-depressive and struggled with alcohol all his life.

Maybe have him avoid the army? But other than that, I'm not sure this is doable.
 
Have him be adapted at birth by loving parents that will encourage him.

Agree.

Have him stay in the Marine Corp and get a College Degree.
When he goes to Vietnam in the 1960's, he saves some of his follow Marines and get a CMH.
He comes home and get involved in Politics in the late 1970's.
He be a liberal but not a Socialist or Communist.
Oswald in place of Clinton?

(All this is very ASB)
 
Oswald should be totally different guy before he can get presidency of United States. He would be totally unrecognsible.
 
the Conspiracy theories are right President Oswald

Agree.

Have him stay in the Marine Corp and get a College Degree.
When he goes to Vietnam in the 1960's, he saves some of his follow Marines and get a CMH.
He comes home and get involved in Politics in the late 1970's.
He be a liberal but not a Socialist or Communist.
Oswald in place of Clinton?

(All this is very ASB)


And since any Answer to this question is ASB, we might as well go all the way into the Rabbit Hole.
Oswald first came to public Attention in 1965 as a witness for the Prosecution in the Trial for the Conspirators who attempted to kill President Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.
Oswald was a marine who was involved in Military Intelligence and who has been a undercover operative since he apparently Defected to Russia in 1959.
He got involved with radical elements in the US after he return to the US still working for Intelligence. He provided information on Radical Cuban group both for and against Castro as well as radical Right Wing groups in the US.
After some of Oswald background was covered in the press, British Journalist Peter Fleming would write his bestselling book "Oswald the Man that Saved the President"
It was turn into a Movie in the early 1970's with Jack Nicholson as Oswald.

Leaving Intelligence after the trial in 1965, Oswald start a new life as a Public Speaker and writer.
He give the American public a look into the Radicals and explain how many in America feel that their Government has failed them.
He become a respected Right wing Speaker and in 1973 Richard Nixon appoints him to replace Agnew as Vice President .

Oswald uses his public speaking skills to try and save Nixon after the Watergate Scandal is made public but he is unable to save Nixon Presidency.
On August 9 1974 He became the President after Nixon resigned.

(I think that covers all of the craziest theories I ever read about Oswald.
Yes there is a Writer out there who argued that Oswald was Conservative.
ASB as all HELL)
 
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