DVD's came a bit early as well. This in the mid 1970's along with CD's, and cheap cell phones. There are four international space stations. The Civil Rights Act which ended legal segregation in both America's came sooner in the Kennedy timeline. May 1962. There was a failed assassination attempt because of it on JFK a month later. Limited Gay Rights came in 1965.

 "Seven Earths", an Alternate History

*I wrote this in 2018-pre-COVID."

Tho' I did foresee a plague in Mexico/U.S. Southwest towards the end of the tale.

Former President John F. Kennedy who held the office from 1960 through 1968. Is seen here in a portrait taken by the BBC for his last public interview in 1992. Kennedy remembered for the events in October 1962 when the world was on a knifes edge of nuclear war.

That, and his work in overturning American racial segregation support for the space program beginning the process of banning all nuclear weapons mediating the Canadian Quebec civil war, and his founding of the Department of the Arts.

He returned to politics late in life to run and be the first governor of the new State of Mannahatta. Formally New York City. Mannahatta being the 55th state admitted to the Union in 1983. 
This after Guam Fiji, and Puerto Rico became states in 1975. 
That, and Newfoundland in 1956.

Former President Kennedy after an illness passed away in  1993. 

U.S. flag in the 'Kennedy Lives' timeline.

Besides his many legacies to the nation, and the world. He is most revered for his posthumous book, and documentations released in 2018. These revealed the existence, and contact with parallel worlds. 

His book "The Seven Earths" changed human history.

The heretofore suppressed discovery, and tentative contacts with two of these worlds was made public by his daughter Caroline. As JFK wished 25 years after his death.  

This in a ceremony at the Department of the Arts. At which not only his book, and documentation was presented to the world but also the first known appearance of an individual from one of them. 

Earth-2. 

Her name is Toni Morrison, and she's an author.

The America of her Earth as Ms. Morrison describes is somewhat similar to ours. Among the exceptions being a more seriously failed Civil War Reconstruction. A longer Great Depression. Also their first moon landing was a success. 

She also mentioned unlike here their United Kingdom is a close allied nation. That, and has a different Royal line. They have a friendly Queen not a hostile Emperor.

A another major change from our history came in November 1963. Their President Kennedy was assassinated by a conglomeration of intelligence agencies, and organized crime. After which Earth-2 went on a long socio-economic downward spiral.

That America is now a divided impoverish nation. With homeless poor actually living on their streets. Mass drug addiction armed youth gangs. A stalled corrupt venal government, and worse.

The rest of that world is in a state of confusion wars genocides, and oppressions. Also their planet is suffering a possible extinction level change in it's climate.

The other six Earths are also different.

One is of course ours.  Next a pre-industrial hunter gatherer culture. Another is very similar to Mars, and never evolved life beyond simple microbes. The most advanced is a Neanderthal interstellar society. 

Yet another is in the long aftermath of major asteroid impacts. This seemed to have happened 1200 years ago. They were formerly in an industrial era. They are now roughly bronze age, and still recovering. 

The final world Earth-7 is dominated by Trilobites. These on our world were a pre-historic form of shallow sea crustacean.

There were attempt by the authorities to stop the dissemination of these historic facts. However, Caroline as per her father's wishes released all the classified files onto the world net. This with a unique form of inscription which makes it impossible to delete or alter.

This the opening to many worlds was President Kennedy's last gift. 

*Deleted scenes.

Kennedy timeline 2019 Edsel.

Yeah theirs is a piece of crap too.

*More details of the parallel Earth that Ms. Morrison, from our world, is visiting in the above story.

In the Kennedy history Peter Best stayed in the Beatles. Ringo died of Polio as a child. George was never born his father having been killed in WW2. Two other artists unknown on our world filled those places. The Edsel was a mild success. ...very mild see above. It is 'still' being built by Ford. Newfoundland is a U.S. state. It nearly became one on our world in the late 1940's. India is three different nations. Australia has been a republic since 1994.

In the other world's WW2 Germany in early 1945 made the components for one functional atomic bomb. However, didn't use it. The Russians overran its construction site before it could be moved. The Russians based on German work were making their own bombs by 1947. In the Kennedy history only one American A-Bomb was dropped. This on an uninhabited island in mid-pacific to show Japanese observers.

The first internet message was sent in 1964. Five years before our world .

DVD's came a bit early as well. This in the mid 1970's along with CD's, and cheap cell phones. There are four international space stations. The Civil Rights Act which ended legal segregation in both America's came sooner in the Kennedy timeline. May 1962. There was a failed assassination attempt because of it on JFK a month later. Limited Gay Rights came in 1965.

There was no prolonged Vietnam war beyond a short period of military advisors.

These were recalled in 1964. The Equal Rights Amendment for Women was passed in 1976. The Cold War ended in 1983 with the NATO Warsaw Pact conventional 'Phony War'.

Not a shot was fired. Rather a mutual pull back set in motion peace negotiations. Their world still has a Soviet Union tho' a more liberalized and stable one. The American Mars Juno mission failed with the loss of the 8 man crew in 1989. An International flotilla of ships returned in 2009. This exactly 20 years after the failed U.S. mission. They successfully established bases at the equator, and south pole of Mars. In 2011 a memorial to the American Juno crew was built at the Martian equatorial base

There was a major flu pandemic in Mexico in the early-1990's. This took more than half a million lives there, and in parts of the U.S. Southwest. This butterflied away the Cocaine Cowboy Cartels. There was race tinged sentiment to build a US/Mexican wall to prevent another cross border pandemic. This was refused by the federal government as an irrational response to an international tragedy.

A failed businessman named Trump is currently doing 25 to life in Angola prison.

This for fraud jury tampering multiple statutory rapes including his youngest daughter. Also for being part of a mob conspiracy to murder federal judges. All this, and selling classified documents to a foreign hostile power.

In 2021 an intelligent signal from a star 15 light years away was discovered by a Chinese radio telescope. This later confirmed by other nations. It was basic Mathematical equations plus compress data streams. Radio telescopes on our world are now also listening to that frequency. 

So far...silence.