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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
The dates being used are generally too late. The big changes in 77 still lets the Vietnam War and Watergate happen. A mass revival of optimism after those too events is not likely to begin in 77. I think Oswald needs to get pushed down the stairs so the first of the moden Kennedys can do all the magic stuff.
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I based a campaign on that, long ago. My take was that Kennedy wasn't that strong a supporter of civil rights, and Johnson wasn't in the White House and couldn't appeal to the memory of a martyred president. So there were widespread riots before the 1964 election, and the country went even further right (though under Rockefeller rather than Goldwater).