Having recently finished rereading Stephen King's 11/22/63, this article that I ran into not long ago seemed apropos.
Indeed, I remember a lot of fiction scenes - from books like King's to television shows and such - where the Kennedy assassination, and the possible reversal of the events of that fateful day, were somehow reversed or stopped.
Indeed, what kind of a world would it have become had Kennedy not been assassinated, but lived? Would it be better? Or would it in fact have made things worse, as King suggests in his obviously fictional account of a man stopping the Kennedy assassination from happening?
Interesting to think about.
To my mind's eye, it feels like things were going extremely well for the country before his untimely death. We were actually unified. And while things were far from perfect, it felt that Americans felt good about themselves collectively, and about their place in the world. That is a good feeling and confidence that is now long gone in these polarized, uncertain times. So perhaps we cannot help but wonder if all of that might have changed if Kennedy had not been assassinated. Hard not to wonder what might have been, in other words.
Here is a link to an article which explore why we seem so collectively fascinated with this singular event, and what it might have meant to the different possibilities of the future then available to us, but now forever gone.
Why Is Science Fiction So Obsessed with the Assassination of John F. Kennedy? Sixty years later, we’re still trying to save Kennedy. BY CAROLINE HALLEMANNPUBLISHED: NOV 22, 2023 9:
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a33513567/jfk-kennedy-assassination-time-travel-movies-shows/
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