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POD: Lee Harvey Oswald is denied a job at the Dallas Book Depository Building, depriving him of the vantage point that allowed him to kill President Kennedy.

JFK works with both parties to pass the Civil Rights Act in the summer of 1964 (despite popular myth, the Act had enough overwhelming Congressional support that it was going to pass even had Kennedy lived), and he is re-elected over Goldwater - albeit to a smaller margin than Johnson. Many think that JFK would've survived his second term, but this isn't a sure bet. He suffered from severe health problems and underwent extensive daily drug therapy just to survive. Kennedy himself predicted that he would live to be only 45, and was off by one year. Suppose that in the Spring of 1966, President Kennedy dies due to both natural causes and complications of the drugs he took to treat Addison's Disease. How is his death handled by the administration, and what impact would this have on the American public and US history?
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