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I am thinking of writing an alternate history of JFK for this forum and have him survive The Dallas assassination attempt. But I am not sure on how I should create the scenario by which JFK survives.

I think Jeff Greenfield in his novel did a good job by having the bubble top of the Presidential limo stay on because of poor weather. (However, I think I recall Greenfield had Oswald still shoot at the limo and injure the President and I am not convinced Oswald would still have fired if the bubble top was still on the car). Although I think Greenfield came up with a good scenario, I do not want to copy him and I would like to read some other scenarios. I would like the scenarios to involve Oswald making an assassination attempt, maybe injuring JFK, but if you wish you can butterfly away the assassination attempt or create any other scenario

I thought maybe I could have one of the boxes in the sniper's nest fall on Oswald, spoiling his aim but there are problems with this scenario. Why would a box suddenly fall on him and it does not seem plausible that it would fall exactly when he is taking a shot.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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