At great personal cost, Jake is able to prevent the assassination, but when he returns to the present day, he learns that this was not a wise choice: Without Kennedy’s death to galvanize the country, the Civil Rights Act Of 1964 was never passed, and George Wallace took the presidency in ’68, ultimately escalating the Vietnam War into a nuclear war, and inspiring Maine to secede from the country and turn Canadian. Regardless of the details, a timeline in which JFK survived turned out to be a bad thing for nearly everyone. Thus Jake is forced to erase his trip, restoring events to their original shape, having basically wasted five years of his life that he could’ve saved if he’d just watched that damn episode of The Twilight Zone.
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