POD: RFK lives on June 6, 1968. Completed February 2010. “Presidential Tales”, short stories describing specific events in the Kennedy Administrations, will be written this summer.

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Main characters and roles at POD

Richard Nixon: Republican presumptive nominee, 1968

Robert Kennedy: Democratic presidential candidate

George Bush Sr. Congressman, TX-5

Ronald Reagan

Results

• Widespread political violence in the United States

• Fracturing of the Republican Party between Rockefeller moderates/liberals and Reaganite conservatives after Nixon's death in December 1968.

• Increasing polarization of the Irish-American community causes Louise Day Hicks to win the Boston mayoralty in 1967 and the Massachusetts governorship in 1970.

Assassinations: Terry Sanford (1968), George Wallace (1968)