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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.
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