“...A Parallel Earth”

We live in a multiverse. Our earth is one of an infinity of them. I like writing stories about such. On some we never evolved or there are Neanderthal interstellar societies. Others are as dead the moon. Airless open to the void. This one has a baseline of Kennedy not being successfully assassinated. He lived into the early 1990's.

The historic divergence from ours to the Kennedy lives world was in the mid-1800's. Their history had a seriously failed U.S. Civil War Reconstruction. More complete genocide of the Natives Peoples. A longer Great Depression. WW2 started in 1942. Though allied with them the United Kingdom was not a friendly power. A different Royal line with a hostile Emperor.

Once upon a world: 

In the other world's WW2 Germany in early 1946 made the components for one functional atomic bomb. However, the Russians overran its construction site before it could be moved or destroyed. The Russians based on German work were making their own bombs by mid-1947.

In the Kennedy history as ours two American A-Bombs were dropped. But theirs on uninhabited islands in the south pacific for Japanese observers. The second demonstration bomb failed to detonate. However, the Japanese delegation got the message. The Pacific war had a negotiated end in December 1945. 

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 Beatles had limited fame. They disbanded in 1966.

The Edsel was a success. It is still being built by the other world's 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/New Zealand is one country and has been a republic since 1994.

There was never large scale black and white TV broadcasts in the U.S. Color was mandated by the FCC as the norm in 1952. The first internet message was sent in 1964. The first with color images and video in 1975. DVDs and cheap cell phones came early as well. There are four international space stations.

What in our world is North Dakota in theirs is 'Jubilee'. A state given to freed Slaves. This was nearly done in our history. Portions of Jubilee were gradually taken from them in the late 1890's when gold was found. This led to the great migrations of Blacks to the Northern industrial cities. Which caused a clash with new European immigrants.

The Civil Rights Act which ended legal segregation and the returned of the confiscated counties to Jubilee. This came in May 1962. There was a failed assassination attempt because of it on JFK a month later. 

There was no prolonged Vietnam war beyond a short period of military advisors. These were recalled in 1964. However, there was a three-year U.S./Soviet proxy war in Iran. The country was divided between north and south in 1970. That nation was re-unified in 2012.

The Equal Rights Amendment for Women was passed in 1976. Limited federal gay rights in 1979. Though both constantly challenged by far right and religious groups. The Cold War ended in 1982 with the NATO/Warsaw Pact conventional 'Phony War'. After an accidental near detonation of an American tactical warhead at its forward base. A mutual battlefield pull-back set peace negotiations in motion. Their world still has a Soviet Union tho' a more liberalized and stable one.

There was a major flu pandemic in Mexico in 1996. This an earlier mirror of our COVID. The Rio Grande Flu took more than half a million lives there, and in parts of the U.S. Southwest. This both brought the U.S. and Mexico closer together and 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.

The American Mars Juno mission failed with the loss of its crew of 8 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 2021 a memorial to the American Juno crew was dedicated at the site of the crash in the Schiaparelli crater.

A former businessman named Trump is currently doing life in Angola prison. This for fraud jury tampering multiple statutory rapes and being part of a mob conspiracy to murder federal judges. All this and selling classified documents to a foreign power.

In 2021 a signal from a star 28 light years away was received by Chinese radio telescopes. This was 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