JFK wins in 64 but not by much.
JFK gives up in Vietnam and basically fortifies Saigon and abandons the rest of Vietnam and gives financial aid while turning his attention to civil rights. He is defeated on civil rights and doesn’t push as hard and do the things LBJ did in our timeline.
MLK is killed by the FBI this is found out and Chicago is burned to the ground and cities across the country are destroyed by blacks enraged by the murder.
JFK is caught up in the race riots and Saigon falls and he leaves office disgraces, broken, beaten, and maligned.
George Amberson becomes a focal point for the conspiracy folks, who have conventions about Amberson and his disappearance and who he actually was and why he saved JFK. He becomes a folk hero and legend.
The Tet offensive happens in 67 instead of 68.
George Wallace becomes president in 68.
Nasty earthquakes begin in huge force in 68 (the book had one the day of the assassination attempt in LA, Jake knows this was caused by his actions).
69 the US Nukes Vietnam and between 69 and 2012 (current in the book) nearly 30 nukes had been used around the globe.
Also in 69 Wallace declares all out war on Chicago that is controlled by the blacks who destroyed it after MLK.
69 Wallace tells Ho Chi Minh he either makes Saigon a free city like Berlin or see Hanoi become a dead on like Hiroshima. Minh doesn’t believe him and on August 9th (anniversary of Nagasaki) Wallace nukes Minh and has a huge approval ratings bump for doing it.
72 Wallace is assassinated.
Curtis LeMay was the VP and becomes President (WWII buffs will know he is the guy who perfected the firebombings of Japan that in a lot of cases made Hiroshima and Nagasaki merciful, seriously look him up).
Hubert Humphrey (VP for LBJ in our timeline) wins the Presidency in 72.
72 Earthquakes get worse, religious zealots go crazy and India and Pakistan go to war, Bombay and Karachi are nuked.
From 72 to 76 US, China and Russia join together and force India and Pakistan to end their war or the 3 will annihilate both countries.
Ronald Reagan becomes POTUS in 76.
2000 people kill themselves in Jonestown (in reality only 900 did so it is far worse).
79 Iranian students take 200 American prisoners (60 in real history) in the Embassy and begin executing them live on TV. Reagan does not nuke them but sends in soldiers. Muslims create Al Queda to fight the Americans in a Guerrilla war in Iran.
1980 The Beatles reunite for a peace concert. A Muslim blows a suicide vest killing 300 and blinding Paul McCartney.
The entire middle east goes into utter chaos as extremists take advantage of the chaos to bring the end times.
81 the Soviet Union falls, Russia begins selling nukes to Al Queda.
83 JFK dies.
by 1994 the oil fields of the middle east are glassed by Nukes.
1999 a nuclear plant in Vermont melts down irradiating New England and Quebec. The Radiation is basically turned the entire area into a post-apocalyptic type thing.
2004 Bill Clinton dies at the DNC convention and Hillary becomes the nominee in his stead, she wins.
2005 Maine secede from the US and becomes Canadian.
Earthquakes continue world-wide in 2005
4 Japanese Islands fall into the ocean, due to the seismic activity.
2008 Hillary is re-elected as most of the bad is natural disasters and they cannot be blamed on her.
2010 Miami is nuked (suitcase nuke) by Al Queda, the city will be uninhabitable for 80 years at least.
2011 Gulf of Mexico is contaminated by Islamic Nuke.
They say by 2080 the earth will become a second asteroid field in the solar system as the earth tears itself apart.