On 2005-06-09, William December Starr wrote:
In article .com,
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Incidentally, what-iffers may not be the only people interested in
BBC 7 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/drama/7thdimension.shtml -
re-running the radio serial dramatisation of Stephen Baxter's
_Voyage_ (again), next Mon-Fri. This is the one where a nuclear
Mars rocket programme is launched after President Kennedy opens
his damfool mouth during TV coverage of Apollo 11 and says they
should do that.

Robert or Edward? Or was John defeated in 1964, and then elected
again in 1968?

(Former) President John F. Kennedy, if my memory serves. Crippled but
not killed in Dallas, and presumably stands down in favour of Johnson;
the politics here aren't made clear. Regardless, by '69 he's in a
wheelchair and annoying the hell out of Nixon by stealing all the
reflected glory from Apollo...

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-Andrew Gray