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This has been discussed many many times on AH.com before, but often the discussion focuses more around the implausibility of the operation having succeeded, rather than the consequences of it having been successful. So, let's say that somehow it had succeeded. What would the consequences be? Who...

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The Kennedys and LBJ never got along with each other that well; What's worse, RFK and LBJ hated each other so much that some would say LBJ would want any other successor to him in 1968 IOTL, just not RFK. So the challenge is to foster a good relationship between the Kennedys and LBJ.

The Kennedy assassination is one of the focal point PODs in alternate history. Generally, the focus is on Kennedy avoiding assassination, whether he be injured but recovers, shot at but not hit, or whether he avoids Oswald or Dallas altogether. However, little if any attention is paid to the...

I want to incite you to make a collaborative TL about an alternate Cuban Crisis. You can resolve it peacefully, or you can cause global thermonuclear war and then write what happens after the apocalypse... Are you prepared? October 25, 1962: In a phone call between John F. Kennedy and Nikita...

The 1960 US Presidential Elections was one of the closest in history. Now imagine that Nixon narrowly wins, and like Nixon IOTL, JFK wants and does makes a comeback in 1968. What do you think would happen, in six spheres? 1. Social? My opinion: Nixon would most likely pass the CRA and VRA...

Let's say the scion of the Kennedy family somehow turns red (or blue or whatever the colors were back then), turning away from his father's and grandfather's party. How would this happen? Would he still become President? Would he even be a congressman from Massachusetts? If so, what happens...

I am thinking of writing an alternate history of JFK for this forum and have him survive The Dallas assassination attempt. But I am not sure on how I should create the scenario by which JFK survives. I think Jeff Greenfield in his novel did a good job by having the bubble top of the...

As the title suggests, what is the plausibility that Ronald Reagan succeeds Gerald Ford as President of the United States in 1980? Some of this may be ASB territory, but a theoretical POD is Kennedy getting reelected in '64 and seeking an early resolution to Vietnam. He'd likely still be...

IRL, Nixon lost to Kennedy in a close presidential election, so what would be needed for Kennedy to lose to Nixon, and what would the broader ramifications be?

Forgive Your Enemies, But Never Forget Their Names Prologue: The Fall of A President By the end of 1962, President John F. Kennedy was seemingly on the top of the world. His approval ratings were high and getting higher and the Democrats held firm and ever growing majorities in congress. The...

This is a short story I wanted to post positing this theory. I am going to lay out my belief as to how things happened, and hope all of you will join in. ***** June 23, 1963: John F. Kennedy flew to the Federal Republic of Germany, the first stop on a European tour that was a mix of work and...

On Friday, November 22nd 1963, at approximately 12:30 Central Standard Time, an assassin fired 6 rounds into the Presidential motorcade as it drove through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. In a flash of several seconds the percussive cracks of a rifle blended in with that of screams...

Nothing nitty gritty here... Just what do you think would've happened if the Warren investagnation found irrefutable proof that Moscow was directly involved in the assassination of JFK? First Strike? Retaliatory Assassination? Nothing?

Just as the tin says, if John F. Kennedy loses the 1960 election to Richard Nixon, what is the future of his political career? Will he be able to rebound and become president like Nixon? Will his Addison's kill him before he can accomplish anything else?

What would happen if John F. Kennedy had died in PT-109? (Joe Kennedy Jr, still dies as well ATL.) JPK Sr. would obviously be terribly grief-stricken, but how much would he push for Robert to become involved in politics? RFK, was always his mother's child after all. It's also been stated that...

Good morning. My name's Carlton and I'll be your training supervisor for your first week here at the museum. Since this is your first day on the job, we'll focus on getting you familiarized with the museum layout and the basics of what you'll be doing as a tour guide here. First let's get you...

Lee Harvey Oswald is takes the stand he 1) Denies everything even easily verified information 2) Although he denies killing JFK he calls him a "Capitalist tool" 3) Declares Fidel Castro as the "true hero of the working man" 4) Spouts off a lot of Marxist rhetoric on the stand BTW I think...

Of all the U.S. administration escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam, Kennedy's seems the least "forced." Truman essentially stood aside going with the French flow in his first term. In his second, he just aligned Vietnam policy with shifts in Asian containment after the Korean War started...

I was wondering: how might the rest of President Kennedy's administration played out had he not been fatally stabbed by his lover, Marylin Monroe, when he tried to break off their relationship in August 1962? How might JFK have reacted to the Cuban Missile Crisis when it broke out two months...