Much has been made about the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981, but I propose instead that Reagan is assassinated during his first campaign for Governor of California in 1966. In this hypothetical scenario, a bomb explodes in the backroom of his campaign headquarters, killing:
- Ronald Reagan
- Robert Finch, his candidate for Lieutenant Governor
- Holmes Tuttle, a successful Californian auto dealer and one of the men who convinced Reagan to run
- Alfred Bloomingdale, heir to the Bloomingdale's department store fortune
- Charles Z. Wick, head of Wick Financial Corp and a communications adviser for Reagan
- Joseph Coors, president of the Coors brewing company
What are the effects of the death of Reagan and some of his closest supporters during his first campaign for elected office?
- Ronald Reagan
- Robert Finch, his candidate for Lieutenant Governor
- Holmes Tuttle, a successful Californian auto dealer and one of the men who convinced Reagan to run
- Alfred Bloomingdale, heir to the Bloomingdale's department store fortune
- Charles Z. Wick, head of Wick Financial Corp and a communications adviser for Reagan
- Joseph Coors, president of the Coors brewing company
What are the effects of the death of Reagan and some of his closest supporters during his first campaign for elected office?