Timeline Part Four (1963: No Dallas)

November 16, 1967 A week later than OTL, NASA launches Apollo-4, an unmanned mission and the first test of the massive Saturn-V rocket. It is a complete success.

November 23, 1967  President Kennedy celebrates Thanksgiving with the extended Kennedy family in Hyannisport. In an unauthorized biography published in 2006, it is claimed that he tells his younger brother Robert Kennedy not to seek the Presidency in 1968 nor accept an offer from Long for Vice-President, as he is sure that Long will lose. Regardless, Bobby Kennedy makes no moves to gain the nomination from Russell Long.

December 1, 1967 NASA announces that Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee will fly the Apollo-7 mission for the first manned test of the Apollo spacecraft since the 1967 fire that killed Schirra and his team.

December 9, 1967  A photograph emerges, taken by a Canadian war correspondent, of Captain Nguyễn Văn Lém of the VietCong summarily executing the captured South Vietnamese police General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan when Saigon fell on November 25th. The prisoner was handcuffed and the VC officer clearly shoots him in the head. World-wide outrage at the atrocity erupts. The United Nations passes a resolution condemning the new government.

January 23, 1967  Captain Lloyd M. Bucher of the USS "Pueblo" is informed of a North Korean assassination attempt on South Korean President Park Chung Hee and manuevers his ship another 5 miles into international waters. North Korean vessels spot it from a distance, but do not give chase.