Camelot

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April 3rd, 2007

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in 1891, President Benjamin Harrison holds his first meeting about “Sockless” Simpson's Kansas rebellion. The already-unpopular Harrison is told by his cabinet that Congress is clamoring for him to retake Kansas or face impeachment. Because of the seeming illegitimacy of his campaign's victory in 1888, President Harrison has been abandoned even by his fellow Republicans, and is facing the twilight of his life in public. He tells his cabinet, “My personal fortunes do not matter, gentlemen. What matters is the Union that I fought a war to preserve. Kansas will be American again.”

in 1998, French union organizer Lance du Lac joins the ranks of Arthur Pendrake in Great Britain. The flamboyant Frenchman attracts the attention of Pendrake himself, who likes du Lac's organizational skills and is impressed with his character. For his part, du Lac is practically overcome with hero worship for Pendrake, and is the first to swear his fealty to King Arthur. Pendrake put du Lac in charge of security for his burgeoning followers, and the Frenchman teaches a cadre of newly-knighted men the techniques he had used successfully in his homeland to build unions against rather stiff opposition. Before long, Arthur comes to rely on du Lac's advice even more than he does on Merl's – just as the Illuminati planned.

ET Techno	In 2008 at the US base in Nevada the Extraterrestrial Technology (ET) that has finally been recovered from Iraq has almost arrived. ET is desperately needed to build the super-computers that will power the strategic models being developed around the predictions of the thousand year old Lenape soothsayer. Trouble is the old ..
.. man is almost hysterical, he is more agitated than at any time since he came into American possession from the Dutch four hundred years before.
~ entry by Steve Payne from counter history in context - you're the judge!

In 1979 Hugh Trevor-Roper was awarded a life peerage and chose the title Baron Dacre of Glanton, a County in Northumberland. He was so well respected now that he feared being discredited by a fake. In simple terms he was risk averse. Now he would need good time to consider his approval of the Bormann Diariesand he ..	Martin Bormann
.. refused to be rushed. He was an old man.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Harry Turtledov..	In 1990 Harry Turtledove published the counter-history novel Camelot, in which he posed the JFK question – what if US President John F Kennedy had not survived the assassination attempt at Dallas? Writing in the New York Times, the former President wrote that it was difficult for anyone not living through the turbulent period ..
.. of the 1960s to realise how close America came to a breakdown in civil society.
~ entry by Steve Payne from counter history in context - you're the judge!

In 1882 American Old West outlaw Jesse James shot and killed would-be assassin and $5,000 bounty-hunter Robert Ford in Saint Joseph, Missouri. James was running short of cash, and was happy to recruit the young Charley Ford and his brother, Robert, to assist in the robbery of the Platte City Bank. After eating breakfast, ..	Jesse James
.. the Fords and Jesse James went into the living room. Jesse took off his guns. Before sitting down he noticed a crooked picture on the wall, and stood on a chair to straighten it. Bob Ford took advantage of the opportunity, pulled his gun but James shot him with a derringer Afterwards, James robbed the Platte City Bank and escaped to an unknown location in South America.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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