When discussing how the JFK assassination changed history, a fascinating place to start is to look at the Presidents who succeeded him.

No less than the Presidency itself was forever changed in the tragic six seconds that took the 35^th President of the United States from us.

Just as Kennedy’s successor easily beat Barry Goldwater by a landslide in 1964, we must concede that the popular young President would have been re-elected had he lived.

That means no President Johnson in 1964 or perhaps not at all.

Therefore, it can be argued that the 1964 election itself may have saved some 52,000 American troops from losing their lives in Vietnam since JFK was leaning toward ending U.S. involvement in the conflict by the end of 1965.

But what about subsequent elections?

After all, people are stunned to realize that three successive U.S. Presidential elections were affected by bullets as much as ballots!

If Kennedy had served two terms, would Bobby Kennedy have continued the ‘Camelot’ era in 1968 and 1972 or would Nixon and the Republicans still have captured the White House?

And in 1972, if George Wallace had not been shot while seeking the Presidency, how might that have affected the election results?

Without a President Nixon, there is no Watergate and therefore no President Gerald Ford. And how does that change the Presidencies of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, the two Bushes, Bill Clinton, Barrack Obama and even Donald Trump?

HISTORY-ALTERING SIX SECONDS

While this topic alone makes for ceaseless debate, even more argumentative is exactly what happened during those awful six seconds in Dallas.

More than five decades of discussion and study have produced two distinctly different government versions of what occurred.

The 1964 Warren Report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone whereas the 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations determined that Oswald fired all the shots but was likely part of a conspiracy.

Through the ‘Oswald’ Window is the latest book on the JFK assassination that offers fresh insights into America’s ultimate cold case.

Chapter 11 delves into those controversial six seconds and applies more than 50 years of research in offering the author’s perspective as to the number of shots fired, from where they were fired, Oswald’s surprising role and who set him up as the lone assassin.

In this riveting chapter, the author actually becomes the assassin at the so-called ‘Oswald window’ and shares his shocking observations from being granted rare access to the infamous sniper’s perch.

How the JFK assassination changed history is for others to decide. This book focuses more on how just six seconds robbed us of the truth and forever shattered our trust in government.