The shooting of President John F Kennedy, born on this day in 1917, remains one of the world’s most infamous assassinations, and its implications are still arguably being felt today. Aside from the conspiracy theories shrouding the event, the impact of his death on 22 November 1963 has been pored over and studied for decades. But what if he had never been shot by Lee Harvey Oswald? That was a question tackled by award-winning US television journalist Jeff Greenfield for All About History magazine issue 13, who considered how life in the following decades might have been different had Kennedy lived.
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President John F Kennedy was born 97 years ago today in 1917
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He was assassinated on 22 November 1963 - but what if he hadn't been?
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US television journalist Jeff Greenfield tackles the implications of this
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One suggestion is that the Vietnam War might not have happened as it did
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While averting 'nuclear holocaust' with the Soviet Union may have halted the Cold War
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And the affair with Monroe could have been a public scandal akin to Clinton's in 1998
Looking further into his life, @placeholder considers how his health might have curtailed his later years.