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I had a idea a little while ago, which I thought was interesting, so I thought I'd post it on here.

What if John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King were to switch date's of death? To make things more interesting, lets say they are also killed by assassination, but both are killed by the other's assassin, King is killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, and Kennedy is killed by James Earl Ray.

King would now be killed on November 22nd,1963. This would be just a few months after his famous march on Washington, as well as his "I Have A Dream" speeech. I imagine this would make the Civil Rights movement much more violent, to have one of the greatest voices in the Afriican-American community killed so much earlier.

Kennedy on the other had would be killed on April 4th, 1968. Now, I'm going to assume that Kennedy would be re-elected in 1964, so his assassination would now take place in the midst of his last year as President, as well as the '68 Presidential Election. Johnson would become President, at least for the time being, but if he gets elected to a term of his own is probably up him, as well as how the race for the Democratic Nomination is going that year.

RFK is a bit of a wild card in this senario. With his brother alive and still President, he may have stayed on as AG for a few more years than he did in OTL. I doubt he would have run for President in '68, since having one Kennedy serve after another probably wouldn't go over so well. I can see him running for senate, an maybe running for president in 1976.

So, any thoughts?
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