No, Sgt. Pepper didn't teach the band to play.
June 5, 1968 was the day that Bobby Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles after claiming victory in the California Democratic primary. Jack Kennedy was four and a half years gone, Martin was shot in Memphis sixty days earlier and in some corners hope for the future was fading fast.
What came next?
The debacle of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago with Richard Daly's police trying to restrain the political underclass, the rise of Richard Nixon, descent into the hell of Viet Nam and perhaps the end of polite political discourse.
What could have been?
Jack Kennedy lives and completes two terms?
Bobby elected in 1968?
Martin as Bobby's VP?
Bobby completes pullout from Viet Nam?
Regan retires as Gov. of California
Oliver North stays an obscure Marine Lt. Colonel
Rush Limbaugh stays an obscure DJ in Pittsburgh
and so on....
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