[cicero2k]

Hope he had changed his mind and heart before that bullet tore his brains out.

No doubt the most important shot of many lifetimes.

Examples:

Would we have gone to the moon, otherwise?

Would we have expanded Vietnam to rediculous proportions?

Would we have the "Great Society".

[j_tull]

Stephen King has some interesting thoughts on those very issues in his newest novel 11/22/63. I know he’s a lefty, but he sure can write.

[RobbyS]

Probably none of these things would have happened. The Democrats would not have won so big in 1964 if Kennedy had lived.although he probably would have been re-elected. The moon program is the most likely, because it was a “peaceful competition.” Did you know that men started talking about a trip to the moon around 1600? Kepler saw it as the logical extension of the great explorations that were underway.