WI Oswald kill Eisenhower

The movements of Lee Harvey Oswald seems quite random. Thus, having him on the wrong place at the wrong time, is possible. So WI he kills Eisenhower?
 
well, that would depend on when he was assassinated.

but, if he were assassinated during his second term, Nixon would become president. Then, he might pull an LBJ and win in 1960.
 
Oswald was 13 when Ike was elected and 21 when he went out of office. Isn't that a little young to be committing politically motivated murder?
 
Not really 21 is the ideal age for such an act. By 19 he had left the Marine Corps and was a qualified sharpshooter. So he has two years to get hot and bothered about any issue he wants and shoots Eisenhower. Probably not Dallas as JFK was on the ground for political reasons. Eisenhower in his last days of his Presidency wouldn’t have them concerns.

I think one of the major differences would be Eisenhower seen as a lot more closely scrutinised President and perhaps more admired. He ranks quite highly on many peoples list however his achievements are little know if he was assassinated like JFK he would have a raft of documentaries about his life etc.

Nixon wins in 1960? The sympathy vote pushes him over the top?

 
When, November 1963 or June 1960 or when? It's a long stretch imagining Oswald shooting Ike at any point in time; however, if he did...
...before the Nov. 1960 election:
Nixon wins (and wins again in 1964 if he's constitutionally able to run). JFK serves in the US Senate until health problems force him to retire. Bobby Kennedy might get elected in 1968 (depending on what Sirhan Sirhan is doing that year in TTL).
...after the Nov. 1960 election:
JFK serves a full 4 to 8 years as POTUS. Nixon might beat him in '64 or he might run again in '68 as per OTL. Bobby Kennedy will not run for POTUS in '68 unless JFK has not served a 2nd term.
 
Have him killed during the transition. I'm more interested in the long term effects rather then having a Nixon admin.
 
The movements of Lee Harvey Oswald seems quite random. Thus, having him on the wrong place at the wrong time, is possible. So WI he kills Eisenhower?
Are you actually just asking for an Eisenhower assassination? Rather than it being by Oswald specifically... this seems to be a sticking point for many.
 
Eisenhower had a stroke in the middle of his term and almost died.

Why not have that kill him off?
 
Have him killed during the transition. I'm more interested in the long term effects rather then having a Nixon admin.

The longterm effects depend greatly on when Oswald kills Ike. The transition period 11/60 - 1/61 is the least likely time for such a thing to happen (though on a semi-germaine note, a writer for the Detroit Free Press did write just after last month's election that impeaching Bush & Cheney was still needed to be pursued, so I guess if Oswald is intent on killing him, then it needs to be pursued no matter what of when).
 
Are you actually just asking for an Eisenhower assassination? Rather than it being by Oswald specifically... this seems to be a sticking point for many.

Some kind of Harveyesqe nut. I was thinking that the Kennedy killing could be seen as a starting point of a lot of political turbulence and violence over the world. What if that happened earlier.
 
Oswald almost killed Nixon. Nixon was also in Dallas the same time Kennedy was. Oswald's wife kept him from taking his pistol and going to kill Nixon the day before Kennedy was shot.

Torqumada
 
Oswald almost killed Nixon. Nixon was also in Dallas the same time Kennedy was. Oswald's wife kept him from taking his pistol and going to kill Nixon the day before Kennedy was shot.

Torqumada

I was going to ask, "Really? Cite?"

Because I've got Manchester's 'Death Of A President' laying around somewhere, and I don't remember reading this anywhere in the main points of the official version account of Oswald's actions as relayed by the Kennedys' official 'Dallas historian'.

But--the miracle of Google Book search tells me that Marina Oswald, after her first series of interrogations, after her first appearance before the Warren Commission, all of a sudden remembered her late husband knew the former vice president was in town for a Studebaker dealers' convention that fateful day. And he threatened to kill Nixon. According to Marina all that time later in the middle of 1964. Right off the top of her head.

This is one reason WIs about this particular subject are... problematic.
 
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