Think Kennedy would still be alive today had, you know, it not been for Dallas?

[Drunken Irishman]

Outside of their tragic early deaths, the Kennedys had damn good genes. Rose lived until 104 -- her parents well into their twilight. Teddy is pushing 80 (and here's to him passing 80 :toast:) even though he nearly died in a plane crash and fought alcoholism. The Kennedy women, even Rosemary (who died at 86), seem to live long.

So had Kennedy not been gunned down, would he be alive today? He'd be only 92, but imagine if he had lived this long.

Imagine him seeing the first black president.

Imagine him seeing the 40 year anniversary of the moon landing.

Imagine how much could have changed had he not been shot to death in Dallas.

Maybe he wouldn't have survived this long. Maybe his drug issues -- namely because of his back injury -- would have led him to his death.

But then again, maybe not. Maybe he lives a long and happy life. Maybe in some alternative universe, he -- joined by Bobby Kennedy (president during the Moon landing) -- met with Pres. Obama at a White House event honoring the moon landing and Kennedy's dream.

Wouldn't that have been something?

[stopbush]

1. Odds are he wouldn't be alive. Few people live into their 90s,

and JFK had serious medical issues.

[charlie and algernon]

2. would we even have had Obama?

JFK goes to '68, LBJ or RFK goes to '76 ...

Possibly no Nixon, certianly no Ford, Carter, Reagan or Bushes. President Mondale, MAYBE Clinton, then where are we?

JFK lives and everything after changes

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Hard to say...

I don't know if we even have a President Mondale.

There would have been no Nixon, though.

[Blasphemer]

8. Maybe Nixon but no Carter. or Reagan.. who knows

JFK--->Nixon--->Ford-->RFK--->Bush---->Clinton... who knows. A lot depends on how JFK's 2nd term would have gone.

[charlie and algernon]

15. there's no way Bush becomes president w/o being Reagan's VP

it would also be hard for Ford to get elected unless Nixon still follows through with Agnew as Veep and he still resigns.

[Perky]

14. I doubt it,. Largely because King would not have been assasinated.

but we are dealing with temporal logic heare.

[Robeson]

3. He had some serious medical issues...

...I don't think he'd have made it this long.

[quiller4]

5. Addison's disease usually shortens life by a decade or more. n/t

[Captain Hilts]

6. Don't tell Eunice that. nt

[kimmerspixelated]

7. Don't know the answer, but I often ponder what the world

would've been like had he lived. I wonder what he would have accomplished, other than taming the mobsters(which helped to get the trigger pulled). I think Dems would've ruled for quite awhile, maybe corporations wouldn't be so interwoven into our everyday lives, constantly to the bitter end. Maybe even Republicans might have evolved into something nicer than their current personalities.

Thanks for posting this. I was thinking about this yesterday.

[bertman]

9. He would NOT have lived much longer because the people who killed him already

had alternate plans. And those fuckers don't give up. They had already missed several opportunities before they succeeded.

Look what happened to Bobby. Do you think that wasn't orchestrated?

This thread is the equivalent of mental masturbation.

[Phx_Dem]

11. Good point . Oswald my ass.

[Drunken Irishman]

12. Oh it was Oswald.

There is near indisputable proof Oswald was the shooter. It's interesting, the Discovery Channel or History Channel (can't remember) did a special about it and used forensic evidence to find the trajectory of the bullet and it essentially begins at the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository.

[bertman]

17. Drunken Irishman, if you're open to some good information that suggests otherwise,

read "Mafia Kingfish, Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of JFK" by John Davis or "Legacy of Secrets, the Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination" by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann.

[Drunken Irishman]

19. I'm saying Oswald pulled the trigger.

Maybe he was set up, but Oswald most certainly was the man who killed Kennedy.

[Phx_Dem]

21. It was a triangulated shot. Oswald may very well have been

one of the shooters, but he was no lone gunman. Oswald worked for the CIA so I have no doubt he was in on it.

[Phx_Dem]

10. Probably, though Addison's disease is a concern. But we've made

alot of medical progress since the 60s. The important thing is that even if JFK had not lived a long natural life, he would have lived a natural life, and not been assassinated in his prime.

[Perky]

13. ONe has to wonders how the fortunes od RFK and Teddy would have changed?

No Ambassador Hotel and no Chappaquiddick.

THough I sort of doubt either would have become president.

[Clio the Leo]

16. "And now it's on to Chicago and let's WIN THERE!"

...... I remember last year when I realized the new irony of RFK's last public words.

I sobbed for 10 minutes.

[burning rain]

18. John Kennedy's still alive.

Living with Michael Jackson and Elvis in Argentina. Hitler died 12 years back and they buried him in the backyard.

[Odin2005]

20. He had loads of health problems, he probably would have died in his 60s.