WI: Jackie died instead of JFK?

Im not sure if I can see Kennedy personally killing Oswald in this timeline.
Now, I could see him ordering that oswald be killed, but for him to actually pull the trigger, that would have to go down in compelete secrecy.

How many would object if he killed Oswald personally?

This is the early 1960s. People weren't as squeamish back then.

Of course, if Kennedy did it extrajudicially, THEN people would object.

On a more general note, someone used this as the POD to get First Lady Marilyn Monroe. I wonder if that would actually happen.

(Given that JFK and RFK were carrying on with Marilyn at the same time, I wonder what would happen if it were revealed the President was "sharing" the First Lady with his brother?)
 
How many would object if he killed Oswald personally?

This is the early 1960s. People weren't as squeamish back then.

Of course, if Kennedy did it extrajudicially, THEN people would object.

On a more general note, someone used this as the POD to get First Lady Marilyn Monroe. I wonder if that would actually happen.

(Given that JFK and RFK were carrying on with Marilyn at the same time, I wonder what would happen if it were revealed the President was "sharing" the First Lady with his brother?)

By the time JFK or Jackie would have been killed Marilyn Monroe would have dead at least for a year.
 
Just had a random thought for that maybe Kennedy's re-election might not be quite so ironclad as normally thought; his philandering ways could end up causing him quite a bit of trouble and lose him the sympathy vote. If Goldwater or whoever was willing to fight dirty in the campaign (and if Kennedy kept up his philandering to any degree after Jackie's death) then revealing Kennedy's indiscretions to the public could really hurt his image.

Goldwater would not be willing to fight dirty, and Rockefeller has his own martial problems.

That said, the general premise—Kennedy would not have hit LBJ's landslide—is probably correct. He still would have had a chance, to be sure, against Goldwater but odds are it would have been somewhat closer. Still a JFK victory, likely in the 300s, but not as big. (And yes, Goldwater could have won, it's just highly unlikely.)

The bigger question, relating to the election, are the Congressional races. If JFK has as much or nearly as much success in brining Democratic downballot races along with him his agenda (with the possible, highly debated, exception of Viet Nam) resembles LBJ's—although probably not as far sweeping for good or ill.
 
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