Such stomach-churning fun-house mirror episodes loom among many unintended consequences in 11/22/63, a piece of time-traveling historical fiction that makes the what-if game intensely personal and terrifyingly broad all at once. “When Kennedy finally gave up, he made an off-the-cuff remark that would haunt him until he died in 1983: ‘White America has filled its house with kindling now it will burn.’ ” “ The Republicans and Dixiecrats filibustered for a hundred and ten days one actually died on the floor and became a right-wing hero,” he writes. In King’s alternate take, LBJ’s mastery of legislative power remains untapped in the office of the vice president.
His election follows an era devoid of Civil Rights triumphs.
Spare Kennedy from Lee Harvey Oswald’s bullet at Dealey Plaza in Dallas and prepare for former Alabama Governor George Wallace to become the 37th president. Leave it to Stephen King to take one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century – JFK’s assassination – and make it even worse by undoing the entire episode.
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