WI: Lyndon Johnson Assassinated (After 1963)

This conversation is not to cover the story of the agent that nearly shot Johnson shortly after the Kennedy assassination. That is too easy, and too close to the assassination of Kennedy to be much different from a double death in Dallas scenario. And this is not about that scenario. However, it is to cover the general concept of an alternate assassination of Lyndon Johnson. In review, it is surprising that nothing seems to have even been plotted against the president, especially as his approval ratings plummeted. The 1960s were an era of tumult and turmoil as much as social change, and the president was at the center of it. Conservatives opposed him on Civil Rights, the Left opposed him on the war in Vietnam, etc. There were countless people angry at Johnson, and it was a time for militants and people with mental problems taking it out in a violent manner. Martin Luther King was killed, Robert Kennedy was killed, in the early 70s Wallace was nearly killed, and obviously John Kennedy had been killed earlier in the decade. What if Johnson had been assassinated.
 

departue

Gone Fishin'
Secret serive was going to fly Johnson to Chicago convention but did not because it was thought to be too dangerous. The president only made speech's on navel ships. if he president went to the Chicago democratic conventon in 1968 he may of been assassination
 
It greatly depends on when he gets assassinated. Perhaps the best time for him to die was in 1965 after he signed the Voting Rights Act. He would have left office beloved for his civil rights legislation and the good economy. Hubert Humphrey in 1965 believed that American troops in Vietnam should have been rolled back to focus on civil rights and the Great Society, so that would avoid the catastrophe that was Vietnam and the stagflation that came with it.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Rather than have him assassinated, just give him a major heart attack and have Humphrey take over.
He's have to have a reason to take smoking up again, and to take it up heavy. IoTL it was leaving the White House.

He near had one after Kennedy was shot, but then there's the question of what would be big enough to actually give him one.
 
He's have to have a reason to take smoking up again, and to take it up heavy. IoTL it was leaving the White House.

He near had one after Kennedy was shot, but then there's the question of what would be big enough to actually give him one.

You don't need to give one. He was something of a Dick Cheney in regards to heart attacks.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
You don't need to give one. He was something of a Dick Cheney in regards to heart attacks.
He was fragile, but he was also incredibly resilient. It'd take a serious shock to take him down.

Having someone just shoot him would be easier.
 
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