A dumb question.
I don't mean to be condescending to you; but his assassination was a huge event in our history.
The ripples still affect us today.
What if he would have survived? The Cold War and Vietnam for starters, would have looked differently.
I think the romance with the Kennedy's would grown old as another factor.
“What if he would have survived? The Cold War and Vietnam for starters, would have looked differently.”
I don’t think that they would have. Kennedy was the one that got us into Vietnam. Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon were just following in Truman’s foot steps with the Korean cluster f***. The whole idea of containment is a guaranteed looser and that’s just what happened.
Kennedy almost got us nuked on his screw up with the Cuban missile crisis so you may be right there, we may have actually turned the cold war into a hot nuclear war if Kennedy had survived and continued to mess up like he did with Cuba so maybe it was a blessing that he got shot.
Who knows if things would have been different but I think that it does not matter too much who is in office because they all seem to promote (more or less) the same policies. Just look at Bush Jr versus Obama, not much has changed in most of our foreign policy, we’re still the Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush gave us an unbelievable (and unaffordable) increase in medicare with drug benefits and Obama has given us another unaffordable mess with Obama care. The names may change but that’s about it.