Edward A. Clark with those opposed to the liberal elements, led by Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Johnson became president. In 1965, Johnson appointed Clark as the US ambassador to Australia. In 1972, Clark supported Richard Nixon for president over George McGovern. In 1974, President Nixon appointed Clark to the General Advisory Committee of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Later, Clark supported Ronald Reagan, who became president. In 2003, Barr McClellan, an attorney who had been employed by Clark's law firm in Austin, published "Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK".
Assassination of John F. Kennedy in popular culture Dallas. It also has Robert F. Kennedy becoming President in the late 1970s, with Martin Luther King Jr. as his Vice President, after both men were saved from their assassinations in 1968 by the same time traveler. In Stephen Baxter's novel "Voyage" (1996), the Dallas assassination attempt only succeeds in crippling Kennedy, but Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is killed. Kennedy is re-elected in 1964 and commits the United States to landing a manned vessel on Mars, which occurs in 1986. The novel uses the assassination attempt only as the impetus for an alternate history US space program. Jeff Golden's 2008 novel