What If Bobby Kennedy Had Lived?
Coincident with the 50th anniversary of U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s murder, I wrote a column several weeks ago wondering whether he’d have otherwise been elected president in 1968.
My sense was negative. In fact, I didn’t think he’d have won the Democratic nomination that year.
However, that doesn’t mean that his presidential prospects were permanently foreclosed. Not by a long stretch.
So what I’m going to do here is engage in a spot of alternative history. Of necessity, it’s speculative, even highly so.