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I think it’s fairly more recent, though still have seen ones with rosy Camelot view of things. Though I think folks like @Mumby have been part of the shift in AltHist.JFK Lives AH seems to have got more cynical than this, I wonder when that started and the starry-eyed optimistism dropped?
I've never heard of this film but it sounds intriguing if a little too optimistic about US politics - would RFK really dare to put a surviving Martin Luther King (presumably controversial to white swing voters in the Southern states, given their real life conservatism and desertion of the liberalising Democrats ) on the ticket as his Vice-President unless he was way ahead of any potential Republican challenger in the polls at the point of nomination? (Appointing him to replace a retired or deceased incumbent Vice-President might however be logical if there was a large enough registration of black Southern voters under a RFK presidency to balance the loss of whites to the Republicans.) Obviously there is a degree of 'Camelot' mythology in this, but - as with novels I've read on an alternative 22 Nov 1963, one called 'Promises to Keep' where one of the President's protection team in Dallas does an 'Oliver Stone' style investigation after the President is hit but not killed - there is a tendency to downplay JFK's at times hard-nosed pragmatism/ caution and the extent of his family's past political secrets in wheeler-dealing Boston politics.
JFK Lives AH seems to have got more cynical than this, I wonder when that started and the starry-eyed optimistism dropped?
Not that Wikipedia's list is exactly exhaustive, but it's a trope that's been in place since at least the 1980s. It's not hard for me to imagine Timequest as a reaction against that the idea, which pops up even in things like the eighties Twilight Zone segment Profile in Silver (which shares some vague plot similarities with Timequest), Red Dwarf's Tikka to Ride, and briefly in the Doctor Who novel Who Killed Kennedy.