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So JFK lives due to Oswald slipping and falling getting out of shower hitting his head and dying. An independent reporter gains an insider in the CIA working on the MK Ultra project and provides many copy's of documents and photo's. This includes the Canadian experiments and Operation Midnight Climax. For some ATL fun it's discovered the CIA bought people from Human trafficking rings and kept them in warehouses to conduct every brain washing experiment under the sun. Also that they included unwilling minors in there LSD exposure and other experiments.
By June of 1964 the TV networks begin covering the story as people are charged and questioned over the MK Ultra project.
Goldwater begins claiming that JFK being too soft on the USSR clearly means that there is even a bigger vast left wing conspiracy to control the public into letting the Communist agenda in.
He also claims if elected he would throw CIA people in jail for there crimes against the public. He then goes on to win the 1964 election against JFK over what would be known as the MK Ultra scandal.
What would this due to future elections and trust of Government in the 1960's-1980's?
Also how badly could this hurt the Democrats and how likely is it that Goldwater would start WW3?