What if JFK had lived?

Almost since the assassination, writers have speculated about the great things President Kennedy would have done had his life been spared in Dallas.

That is not how it would have gone down.

The reality would have been stranger, more painful and disruptive to the nation.

This provocative and compelling e-Book covers the period from the November 22, 1963 near-miss assassination through the subsequent political earthquake of 1966 that the embattled President Kennedy called the “Winter of Our Discontent.”

It is presented from the POV of a cover-story, extended-length magazine article commissioned in the alt.world 2013 where JFK lived looking back at the traumatic events of the two-and-a-half years that followed Dallas, and assessing how the world has changed since then.

The Story

After John Kennedy survives the attack at Dealey Plaza unharmed, the resulting investigation sets events in motion that tear apart his administration.

With the eyes of the world on the United States and the media in a frenzy, with JFK himself alive and not a martyr, an immediate investigation is launched into who might have been interested in killing our popular American President.

November 22, 1963 becomes known as “The Day JFK Dodged a Bullet.” In the tough days ahead, even President Kennedy jokes that “getting out of Texas was the easy part.”

The Kennedy brothers -- John, Bobby and even Teddy -- are hell-bent to ensure their political as well as their physical survival.

Starting with the Secret Service, the blame-game takes on a life of its own, forcing explosive revelations in mere months that have instead dribbled out over decades.

Kennedy’s reckless conduct becomes public: the lies about his medical condition, contacts with mobsters, election money-laundering, attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, and even the hundreds of high-risk sexual encounters that endangered Kennedy’s safety and, by extension, our country’s security.

By the winter of 1966, in this fictional timeline, the House of Representative passes Articles of Impeachment (read them here) against the President.

His own wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, humiliated by the revelations, moves out of the White House.

In the daring climax, JFK stands trial before 100 members of the U.S. Senate who are worried about their own careers in the next election.

It sets up a sequel article where John F. Kennedy Jr. marries Princess Diana in 1997 and, seeking redemption for his father, wins the White House in a tied election against George Bush in 2000, and must deal with 9/11 in his first year on the job.

The Writer

Bryce Zabel, (read short bio here), a former CNN correspondent and successful Hollywood writer/producer, is the creator of NBC’s Dark Skies which told the story of the UFO cover-up through the Kennedy years with JFK himself as a key player.

He is the winner of the 2008 Writers Guild of America award for “Outstanding Original Longform.” He served as Chairman/CEO of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and has taught for the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Marshall School of Business.