Paul V McNutt
Banned
On November 22, 1963, Arnold Rowland looked up at a window in the sixth floor of Texas School Book Depository and saw a silhouette with a rifle. He told his wife look there is a Secret Service Agent. What if he could see that Oswald was wearing a white t shirt and he knew that Secret Service agents wear suits. He could have told a nearby police officer. The motorcade would have been diverted and Kennedy' life would have been saved. There is a police raid on the School Book Depository and Oswald dies in a shoot out. Kennedy does not have LBJ's talent in dealing with Congress. So I doubt there is a 1964 Civil Rights Act. There is nothing ITTL that stops Goldwater from winning the nomination. So Kennedy Johnson, LBJ stays on the ticket, is reelected by a wide margin. Not as wide as OTL. In 1965 the Congress is friendlier but not as friendly as OTL. Maybe Medicare passes, but I am not sure how much of the OTL Great Society passes. After Selma, there an omnibus civil rights bill covering voting rights, employment and public accommodations passes. The big mystery of the surviving Kennedy is Vietnam. I once talked to someone who doing a dissertation on Kennedy's Vietnam policy. He had no clue what he was going to do. I think he was not inclined to send in combat troops. He would have been obligated to send in troops if things were going badly for South Vietnam. So there could very well be a Vietnam War during Kennedy's second term. This of course makes the 1968 election a mystery. Although I am confident that Humphrey is the Democratic candidate and Richard Nixon is the Republican nominee. So what does everyone else think?