There is no denying that the assassination of President John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963 brought the United States to an unexpected junction. The calm, strong leadership he'd shown in the near-three years of his administration – most notably in winning the ultimate blinking contest with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 – was abruptly extinguished that day in downtown Dallas and the country would endure very turbulent times for the rest of the decade. But had a bullet not ended Kennedy's life prematurely, what shape would those subsequent years
