WI: Jackie Kennedy Killed

There are factors to consider really inherent to Jackie Kennedy, beyond John Kennedy. Caroline and John Kennedy Jr will be raised by the Kennedy family, rather than by Jackie Kennedy in exile in New York and with Onassis. That's going to lead to different people with different lives. All the work that Jackie Kennedy did, and her entire era and influence as a feminist, person involved in publishing, and person involved in protecting history is gone. She, like JFK, will be forever in 1963. In OTL, she wasn't. She was a person across decades, not perpetually trapped in a point in time like JFK, James Dean, or Marilyn Monroe. You can't understate how big that is. She was a major influence in maintaining Grand Central Station as it exists now, as a historic building. You could have seen that building torn down, and they were proposing building this garish sky scraper with historic Grand Central Station as the base. During her time as first lady, btw, she saved Washington D.C. from having all those historic buildings around the mall torn down and turned into these modern sixties buildings. Just a reference for anyone doing Nixon victory timeline; Pat Nixon would have allowed that to happen whereas Jackie Kennedy didn't. The list goes on. Not to mention, from a psychological stand point, this amplifies the horror of November 22, 1963 ten fold. This is going to be an even graver, deeper, more lingering, more torturous and traumatizing scar for the American people. You've just toppled the First Family, making the assassination more personal and horrible. It's no longer just political and the personal relationship people had with a political official.
 
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Since Jackie is not there to insist that the dead president's body be brought back to Washington, JFK would get a much less controversial autopsy. I am sure that Parkland Hospital had very distinguished forensic pathologists. So there would less for the conspiracy theorists to complain about. This doesn't change much in the Kennedy Conspiracy circles, since they don't depend on facts.
 
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