Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy occurred at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (WC: Web of Lies [+]Loading...["Web of Lies (webcast)"]) in 1968. The event left Senator Edward Kennedy as the last surviving Kennedy brother because the eldest of the three, President John F. Kennedy, had already been assassinated in 1963. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy [+]Loading...["Who Killed Kennedy (novel)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
The assassination[[edit] | [edit source]]
Norman of the Latter-Day Pantheon told Steven Taylor that "a warning in the right ear" or a "well-timed call to the police" could have saved Kennedy, when he was attempting to persuade him to help change history. (PROSE: Salvation) Like his brother before him, Kennedy was shot down in the United States. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) Specifically, Kennedy was killed at the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel. (WC: Web of Lies [+]Loading...["Web of Lies (webcast)"])
Legacy and aftermath[[edit] | [edit source]]
Journalist James Stevens was in England at the time of the assassination. He later wrote that by this point "the golden age of Camelot was long gone, and the world becoming ever more bitter and cynical". He cited the escalating war in Vietnam, the growing tensions between generations and the expanding gap between the rich and the poor as examples, going on to say that "what had been a decade of idealism and the urge to change things for the better seemed to have turned sour". (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
The newspaper supplement under which homeless man Billy Coote had slept in the aftermath of Bobby Kennedy's assassination was so thick that he had held on to it for weeks. (PROSE: Nightshade)
In the summer of 1969, Edward Kennedy was involved in the Chappaquiddick incident, during which he was involved in a car crash that killed his secretary, Mary Jo Kopechne. Once again, this brought the Kennedy family and their many tragedies to the forefront of the news. Many publishers commissioned books about the incident. At the time, James Stevens pitched What if JFK Had Lived? which would have covered the entire, tragic Kennedy dynasty. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
1966 natives Ben Jackson and Polly Wright briefly considered finding out if Bobby Kennedy had become president when visiting 1994 but decided better of it. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)
Steven Taylor, a native of the 24th century at the earliest, (PROSE: The Litttle Drummer Boy) was aware of both Kennedy assassinations, enough to know that Robert was not yet dead by 1965 whereas John was. (PROSE: Salvation)
Alternate timelines[[edit] | [edit source]]
In an alternate timeline envisioned by James Stevens in which Jackie Kennedy died instead of John, Earth was plunged into nuclear war in 1963, averting Robert's assassination five years later. He served as Attorney General during the crisis. Stevens also considered the possibility of Robert Kennedy becoming President if JFK had lived and done a second term. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
One of the crew of the Teselecta implied that "Kennedy" was an example of how time could be rewritten. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
