The 2nd post explains why I changed this to a collaborative TL, because the one mentioned a few small paragraphs down is over 4 years old. However, feel free to borrow from it.
Anyway, I was just thinking late at night about the fact that Dr. King had the heart reportedly of a 65 year old man when he was shot.
The rest of his body was healthy enough that I think he would survive, but I don't see him being able to keep up his schedule a home lot longer. Talk of him getting into politics is unlikely, I see him having a heart attack sometime in the early seventies.
Actually, instead of starting a new timeline if it is OK and someone wants to do it, this collaborative timeline would be a good place for this idea.
Basically, orders to slow down, King would realize that he needs to find other ways to become influential in society. Recalling that Frederick Douglass was the most photographed man of the 19th century, and how the early civil rights leader used media to his advantage, Doctor king decides that he will instead meet with large numbers of Hollywood people to try to produce television shows and even get his own network if possible although that is a stretch.
How far would he get doing this? I think it is fairly plausible new direction for him. I think of performers like John Amos, Nichelle Nichols, and Ivan Dixon - who left Hogan's Heroes in 1970 to pursue directing and producing - who would probably enjoy working on some of these projects. Because king was so big on full integration, he would also try to recruit plenty of whites. Perhaps Norman Lear would get on board., among others.
I don't know if a new network is plausible, perhaps a burgeoning production studio would be.
I think as long as he delegates authority well And it doesn't try to put all the stress upon himself, after such a heart attack Dr. King could still have another decade or more of life. President Eisenhower was a man of 65 who had a heart attack and he lived 14 more years While serving another term as president.
How far do you think doctor Kenwood make it in this realm?
Anyway, I was just thinking late at night about the fact that Dr. King had the heart reportedly of a 65 year old man when he was shot.
The rest of his body was healthy enough that I think he would survive, but I don't see him being able to keep up his schedule a home lot longer. Talk of him getting into politics is unlikely, I see him having a heart attack sometime in the early seventies.
Actually, instead of starting a new timeline if it is OK and someone wants to do it, this collaborative timeline would be a good place for this idea.
Basically, orders to slow down, King would realize that he needs to find other ways to become influential in society. Recalling that Frederick Douglass was the most photographed man of the 19th century, and how the early civil rights leader used media to his advantage, Doctor king decides that he will instead meet with large numbers of Hollywood people to try to produce television shows and even get his own network if possible although that is a stretch.
How far would he get doing this? I think it is fairly plausible new direction for him. I think of performers like John Amos, Nichelle Nichols, and Ivan Dixon - who left Hogan's Heroes in 1970 to pursue directing and producing - who would probably enjoy working on some of these projects. Because king was so big on full integration, he would also try to recruit plenty of whites. Perhaps Norman Lear would get on board., among others.
I don't know if a new network is plausible, perhaps a burgeoning production studio would be.
I think as long as he delegates authority well And it doesn't try to put all the stress upon himself, after such a heart attack Dr. King could still have another decade or more of life. President Eisenhower was a man of 65 who had a heart attack and he lived 14 more years While serving another term as president.
How far do you think doctor Kenwood make it in this realm?
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It looks like debate surrounding the 1968 election caused this. So, I'll jump a little...