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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on August 28, 2009, 11:05:39 AM
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What would happen if JFK was not assassinated? Would the Kennedy family be getting this much attention? How would his presidency turn out?
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The 80s Twilight Zone series answered this question. The Cold War would've escalated and resulted in all-out nuclear war between Russia and the U.S.
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JFK would be dead by now. Jackie O would have died Jackie K. John-John would still be dead LBJ would be a footnote. Ronald Reagan would have become president four years sooner than he did (1977). Caroline Kennedy Saucybird would have had some appointment - ambassador to Fuji?
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Well, if one happens to come across any newsmagazine of late October, early November, 1963, he'll read that at the time, Barry Goldwater led John Kennedy in presidential preference polls.
So we know 1964 would've turned out differently, probably better.
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It is so difficult to say, events of great moment turned on an hour-long meeting during his Presidency. He lost a great deal of ground over the Bay of Pigs fiasco, but still had an adoring press eating out of his hand; unemployment was high and his large-scale Reserve call-up for the Berlin crisis pissed off a lot of people adversely affected by it; civil rights issues were a lightning rod and while he was on the right side of it morally, he was losing the Southern Dems who likely would have defected en masse at the next election; and though we didn't find out about it until the USSR collapsed, he came within a day of plunging us into nuclear war with the Reds - missiles were armed and ready in Cuba and the Red commander on the ground had release authority and every intent to fire them on Eastern Seaboard targets if we dropped troops in, which was exactly what the military was advocating, through more good luck than brainpower JFK decided not to do that. His machinations in Viet Nam were headed into a bottomless pit, but had he lived would it have gotten there faster, or slower? There is a very real chance he would not have been re-elected, despite the leg-humping of the all-powerful three major networks, Time-Life, and the WP/NYT.
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What would happen if JFK was not assassinated? Would the Kennedy family be getting this much attention? How would his presidency turn out?
Hi,
I was 23 when Kennedy was shot. I can tell you this. He believed in a balanced budget, cutting taxes, was the father of the investment tax credit and a strong military. He was truly a WWII hero. I have two things to say in reference to your question. What party do you think he would be in today?
And second, he would have had absolutely no use for the phony John Kerry.
regards,
5412
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Well, if Oswald hadn't shot JFK, I might have gotten off work on time and some other bitch may have been my first wife.....debating wheather to put flowers on Oswalds grave or dig him up so I can shoot him.