Xen
Banned
A Rough Draft
We all know the case of Charles Manson and his perceived Helter Skleter, but what if fate had stepped in and intervened. The night the murder was supposed to have occurred, Sharon Tate’s water broke and she was rushed to the local hospital where she gave birth to a baby boy, Richard Polaski. When the would be murderers arrive, the house is empty, rather than wait for someone to return they set fire to the house and leave. Manson is upset, but happy to see the house in ashes. His next order of business is to get revenge on Terry Mulcher, the man who crushed his dreams. A few weeks after burning Sharon Tate’s house, Mulcher is home alone when followers of Manson arrive and brutally murder him. The crime remained unsolved, until the early 1970’s.
Meanwhile, Manson and his crew go on a killing spree of white families, murdering four altogether and hoping to frame black militants and spark a revolution. As the family fleas one murder scene they are caught in a high speed chase with the police, resulting in Tex Watson wrapping the vehicle around a tree, killing himself and Squeaky Fromme instantly, Mary Brunner died shortly after arriving at the hospital, and Susan Atkins was listed in critical condition but survived and later confessed her crimes and those of the family to the authorities. Manson was arrested, and placed on trial where he was found guilty. In 1972 he confessed to a fellow inmate for ordering the murder of Terry Mulcher, beginning another high publicity trial, and receiving the deathy penalty (later commuted to life in prison).
Little else changed in the way of the world following Manson’s arrest and the death of his “family” a few of his devoted followers attempted to carry out his orders while he was incarcerated but authorities were aware of their plots and prevented the crimes from occuring. In pop culture, Sharon Tate continued to make very popular movies and became the goddess of the silver screen during for the decade. Her and Polaski had another child together, a daughter Samantha Doris Polaski. In 1977 after catching her husband in bed with a 13 year old girl, Tate filed for divorce, which was granted after Polaski fled the US for France. In 1978, Tate married her long time friend Jay Sebring, having a son Jason, with him.
In 1975, the world was shocked by the assassination of President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore on September 22. Although tremendously unpopular for pardoning Richard Nixon the previous year, the nation mourned the loss of its President. Ford was eulogized by President Nelson Rockefeller. Shortly after Ford’s funeral, Rockefeller appointed Senator Howard Baker as his Vice President as a compromise between the liberal Democrats in Congress and the conservative faction of the Republcian Party.
The following year, Rockefeller staved off an assault by conservative former Governor of California Ronald Reagan to again take his parties nomination for the Presidency, then went on to defeat Senator Frank Church of Idaho in the 1976 election. Rockefeller’s second term however was rocky, inflation skyrocketed, unemployment reached new heights, America’s foreign policy was shaky with the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan in 1979, and the Islamic revolution overthrowing the western friendly Shah in Iran, and Rockefeller’s personal life was under serious fire when a married White House intern came public with having an affair with the President, and had given birth to his daughter several months before. First lady Margaretta Rockefeller filed for a divorce, gaining much public sympathy.
Going into 1980, Nelson Rockefeller, though eligible for another term declined to run again, stating health reasons, and endorsed his Vice President Howard Baker. The endorsement did not carry much weight with Ronald Reagan easily defeating Baker for the GOP nomination. As a show of reconciliation Reagan offered Baker the Vice Presidency if he should win the election, clearly disappointed Baker accepted.
The Democrats also had a hotly disputed nomination with Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson of Washington squaring off against Massahussets Senator Ted Kennedy. Jackson continuously reminded the American public of the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969. Although the American people were still wary of what happened at Chappaquiddick, Kennedy’s charisma and his appeal as the heir to his late brothers Camelot overcame their doubts with Kennedy narrowly defeating Jackson in the primaries. To the surprise of many political pundits Kennedy did not offer the Vice Presidency to his opponent, instead he nominated Senator John Glenn of Ohio as his running mate.
With the hard charging Ronald Reagan rallying conservatives from across the country to him, and the outspoken liberal Ted Kennedy leading the Progressives, one of the most bitter election seasons opened. Like Jackson, Reagan continuously reminded the American public of Chappaquiddick, and of the Kennedy families checkered past, Reagan however had an uphill climb as he had to overcome his own parties follies over the past twelve years, something Kennedy was not shy of bringing up. Like the election of 1960, the 1980 election was very close with Kennedy managing to win swing states of West Virginia and Ohio to win the election. A clearly dissapointed Reagan conceded defeat, having fought a good hard fight, and under most circumstances would have won the election. Exit polls showed most swing voters favoring Kennedy, mostly because of their weariness of another Republican administration.
Ted Kennedy was sworn in as the 40th President of the United States on January 20, 1981, reiterating his campaign promises of a good government, not the corrupt government of the Nixon-Ford-Rockefeller years. Kennedy hit the ground running, immediately pushing for the Universal Health Care bill to be passed through Congress. In spite of early promises of his Presidency, the Kennedy administration was short lived, slightly over 120 days in office, Ted Kennedy was shot and killed in Washington D.C. by Mark David Chapman. Chapman later explained he had become obsessed with Kennedy during the 1980 campaign as a man of privelage running on a campaign of aiding the lower classees. Believing Kennedy to be a hipocrit, Chapman felt he deserved to die. He had confessed he had previously felt the same way about former Beatle John Lennon, but believed Kennedy to be much worse and more deserving of death.
John Glenn was sworn in as the 41st President of the United States 11 hours after Kennedy was killed, Glenn immediately addressed the nation, urging calm and prayer. For the third time in less than twenty years the American president had been assassinated, people began to question the kind of society that America had become, and if America’s role as the leader of the free world was too much of a toll to pay. Kennedy’s former opponent Ronald Reagan told reporters who had gathered at his ranch that he was deeply sorry to hear of Kennedy’s death, and that he was more than willing to offer his services to John Glenn during this time of national crisis. “Today” Reagan said solemnly “We are all Democrats.”
Thrust into the Presidency, John Glenn continued Kennedy’s legacy, attaching the slain presidents name to the Universal Health Care bill to assure it was passed through Congress, Glenn resisted to take the lead of his parties Kennedy Gun Bill, which would ban fire arms from Private citiizens. Too few Democrats and even fewer Republicans signed the bill, wich never passed through the House, thus never making it to John Glenn’s desk. As a former astronaught, John Glenn increased the budget at NASA, pumping billions into space exploration, he also increased aid to Afghani rebels in Afghanistan urging their resistance to the Soviets. He also took an interest in the Iraqi-Iran War, supporting Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein against the Islamic fundamentalist government in Iran, while supporting the anti-Communist governments in Central America. Domestically the Kennedy-Glenn administration created government programs in rural America, which helped ease the unemployment in the country, although he did so with increased taxes.
It was in late 1981 that Glenn asked Senator Lloyd Bentsen to be his Vice President, Bentsen agreed in January 1982, and was easily accepted by Congress. Texas Governor Bill Clements asked former Republican candidate George H.W. Bush to replace Bentsen in the Senate, Bush happily agreed. In 1984 the Texas Senator nearly upset former Vice President Howard Baker for the 1984 Republican nomination, then refused Bakers offer for the Vice Presidency, which instead went to former National Security advisor Alexander Haig. Although Baker-Haig easily won the electoral votes in the southeast and great plains, the loss of Indiana and Pennsylvania assured Glenn won the election.
Elected in his own right Glenn soon after began a close working relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, with the two superpowers agreeing on a new SALT, and strengthening ties. As Gorbachev policies began to open Russia economically as well as socially and culturally, tensions in the Cold War began to ease. Finally in the last year of his administration, John Glenn witnessed the Soviet Union withdraw from Afghanistan and loosen its grip in Eastern Europe. In October 1988 the communist government of Czechoslovakia was the first to fall, with the nation being split between the Republic of Slovakia, and the Republic of Czechia.
The timing of the collapse of the Czechoslovakian communist regime could not have been better for Vice President Lloyd Bentsen as he squared off against his successor in the Senate, George H.W. Bush. While Bush easily won the state of Texas, Bentsen won the national election to be sworn in as the 42nd Presidnet of the United States. The collapse of the Communist bloc marked Bentsen’s Presidency, with the communist regimes of Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Albania and Romania being replaced by democratically elected governments. In 1990 East Germany and West Germany united for the first time since 1945.
In 1990 Iraqi dictator ordered the invasion of neighboring Kuwait, President Bentsen harshly condemned the invasion and worked with long-time Secretary of State Jimmy Carter to build an international coalition to force Iraq out of Kuwait. An international coalition consisting of the US, France, Canada, Britain, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand as well as Muslim countries Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, Bangladesh, and Oman. In a short three week war, Iraqi forces were pushed out of Kuwait. The coalition began to fall apart when Bentsen ordered American forces into Iraq for the purpose of removing Hussein, most Muslim nations refused to follow, with only Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait supporting the American-led effort. Traditional American allies continued into Iraq, and after a short and sharp ground war, coalition forces rolled into Iraq but Saddam Hussein had fled the capital. Western forces were unprepared for the occupation and building a new government,but was assissted by the Iraqi Army.
Under allied occupied Iraq, the Baathist Party was disbanded, its leaders remained in hiding conducint a guerrilla war against allied forces. The pretender SharifAli bin-Hussein was proclaimed King of Iraq by allied forces to give the country stable leadership, and to satisfy the Arab allies (Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, both of whom supported the restoration). Six months after allied forces entered Baghdad, Saddam Hussein was killed in a shoot out with French forces in Tikrit. With Hussein’s death, other Baathist leaders were captured, surrendered, killed or escaped to Syria or Jordan.
We all know the case of Charles Manson and his perceived Helter Skleter, but what if fate had stepped in and intervened. The night the murder was supposed to have occurred, Sharon Tate’s water broke and she was rushed to the local hospital where she gave birth to a baby boy, Richard Polaski. When the would be murderers arrive, the house is empty, rather than wait for someone to return they set fire to the house and leave. Manson is upset, but happy to see the house in ashes. His next order of business is to get revenge on Terry Mulcher, the man who crushed his dreams. A few weeks after burning Sharon Tate’s house, Mulcher is home alone when followers of Manson arrive and brutally murder him. The crime remained unsolved, until the early 1970’s.
Meanwhile, Manson and his crew go on a killing spree of white families, murdering four altogether and hoping to frame black militants and spark a revolution. As the family fleas one murder scene they are caught in a high speed chase with the police, resulting in Tex Watson wrapping the vehicle around a tree, killing himself and Squeaky Fromme instantly, Mary Brunner died shortly after arriving at the hospital, and Susan Atkins was listed in critical condition but survived and later confessed her crimes and those of the family to the authorities. Manson was arrested, and placed on trial where he was found guilty. In 1972 he confessed to a fellow inmate for ordering the murder of Terry Mulcher, beginning another high publicity trial, and receiving the deathy penalty (later commuted to life in prison).
Little else changed in the way of the world following Manson’s arrest and the death of his “family” a few of his devoted followers attempted to carry out his orders while he was incarcerated but authorities were aware of their plots and prevented the crimes from occuring. In pop culture, Sharon Tate continued to make very popular movies and became the goddess of the silver screen during for the decade. Her and Polaski had another child together, a daughter Samantha Doris Polaski. In 1977 after catching her husband in bed with a 13 year old girl, Tate filed for divorce, which was granted after Polaski fled the US for France. In 1978, Tate married her long time friend Jay Sebring, having a son Jason, with him.
In 1975, the world was shocked by the assassination of President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore on September 22. Although tremendously unpopular for pardoning Richard Nixon the previous year, the nation mourned the loss of its President. Ford was eulogized by President Nelson Rockefeller. Shortly after Ford’s funeral, Rockefeller appointed Senator Howard Baker as his Vice President as a compromise between the liberal Democrats in Congress and the conservative faction of the Republcian Party.
The following year, Rockefeller staved off an assault by conservative former Governor of California Ronald Reagan to again take his parties nomination for the Presidency, then went on to defeat Senator Frank Church of Idaho in the 1976 election. Rockefeller’s second term however was rocky, inflation skyrocketed, unemployment reached new heights, America’s foreign policy was shaky with the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan in 1979, and the Islamic revolution overthrowing the western friendly Shah in Iran, and Rockefeller’s personal life was under serious fire when a married White House intern came public with having an affair with the President, and had given birth to his daughter several months before. First lady Margaretta Rockefeller filed for a divorce, gaining much public sympathy.
Going into 1980, Nelson Rockefeller, though eligible for another term declined to run again, stating health reasons, and endorsed his Vice President Howard Baker. The endorsement did not carry much weight with Ronald Reagan easily defeating Baker for the GOP nomination. As a show of reconciliation Reagan offered Baker the Vice Presidency if he should win the election, clearly disappointed Baker accepted.
The Democrats also had a hotly disputed nomination with Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson of Washington squaring off against Massahussets Senator Ted Kennedy. Jackson continuously reminded the American public of the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969. Although the American people were still wary of what happened at Chappaquiddick, Kennedy’s charisma and his appeal as the heir to his late brothers Camelot overcame their doubts with Kennedy narrowly defeating Jackson in the primaries. To the surprise of many political pundits Kennedy did not offer the Vice Presidency to his opponent, instead he nominated Senator John Glenn of Ohio as his running mate.
With the hard charging Ronald Reagan rallying conservatives from across the country to him, and the outspoken liberal Ted Kennedy leading the Progressives, one of the most bitter election seasons opened. Like Jackson, Reagan continuously reminded the American public of Chappaquiddick, and of the Kennedy families checkered past, Reagan however had an uphill climb as he had to overcome his own parties follies over the past twelve years, something Kennedy was not shy of bringing up. Like the election of 1960, the 1980 election was very close with Kennedy managing to win swing states of West Virginia and Ohio to win the election. A clearly dissapointed Reagan conceded defeat, having fought a good hard fight, and under most circumstances would have won the election. Exit polls showed most swing voters favoring Kennedy, mostly because of their weariness of another Republican administration.
Ted Kennedy was sworn in as the 40th President of the United States on January 20, 1981, reiterating his campaign promises of a good government, not the corrupt government of the Nixon-Ford-Rockefeller years. Kennedy hit the ground running, immediately pushing for the Universal Health Care bill to be passed through Congress. In spite of early promises of his Presidency, the Kennedy administration was short lived, slightly over 120 days in office, Ted Kennedy was shot and killed in Washington D.C. by Mark David Chapman. Chapman later explained he had become obsessed with Kennedy during the 1980 campaign as a man of privelage running on a campaign of aiding the lower classees. Believing Kennedy to be a hipocrit, Chapman felt he deserved to die. He had confessed he had previously felt the same way about former Beatle John Lennon, but believed Kennedy to be much worse and more deserving of death.
John Glenn was sworn in as the 41st President of the United States 11 hours after Kennedy was killed, Glenn immediately addressed the nation, urging calm and prayer. For the third time in less than twenty years the American president had been assassinated, people began to question the kind of society that America had become, and if America’s role as the leader of the free world was too much of a toll to pay. Kennedy’s former opponent Ronald Reagan told reporters who had gathered at his ranch that he was deeply sorry to hear of Kennedy’s death, and that he was more than willing to offer his services to John Glenn during this time of national crisis. “Today” Reagan said solemnly “We are all Democrats.”
Thrust into the Presidency, John Glenn continued Kennedy’s legacy, attaching the slain presidents name to the Universal Health Care bill to assure it was passed through Congress, Glenn resisted to take the lead of his parties Kennedy Gun Bill, which would ban fire arms from Private citiizens. Too few Democrats and even fewer Republicans signed the bill, wich never passed through the House, thus never making it to John Glenn’s desk. As a former astronaught, John Glenn increased the budget at NASA, pumping billions into space exploration, he also increased aid to Afghani rebels in Afghanistan urging their resistance to the Soviets. He also took an interest in the Iraqi-Iran War, supporting Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein against the Islamic fundamentalist government in Iran, while supporting the anti-Communist governments in Central America. Domestically the Kennedy-Glenn administration created government programs in rural America, which helped ease the unemployment in the country, although he did so with increased taxes.
It was in late 1981 that Glenn asked Senator Lloyd Bentsen to be his Vice President, Bentsen agreed in January 1982, and was easily accepted by Congress. Texas Governor Bill Clements asked former Republican candidate George H.W. Bush to replace Bentsen in the Senate, Bush happily agreed. In 1984 the Texas Senator nearly upset former Vice President Howard Baker for the 1984 Republican nomination, then refused Bakers offer for the Vice Presidency, which instead went to former National Security advisor Alexander Haig. Although Baker-Haig easily won the electoral votes in the southeast and great plains, the loss of Indiana and Pennsylvania assured Glenn won the election.
Elected in his own right Glenn soon after began a close working relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, with the two superpowers agreeing on a new SALT, and strengthening ties. As Gorbachev policies began to open Russia economically as well as socially and culturally, tensions in the Cold War began to ease. Finally in the last year of his administration, John Glenn witnessed the Soviet Union withdraw from Afghanistan and loosen its grip in Eastern Europe. In October 1988 the communist government of Czechoslovakia was the first to fall, with the nation being split between the Republic of Slovakia, and the Republic of Czechia.
The timing of the collapse of the Czechoslovakian communist regime could not have been better for Vice President Lloyd Bentsen as he squared off against his successor in the Senate, George H.W. Bush. While Bush easily won the state of Texas, Bentsen won the national election to be sworn in as the 42nd Presidnet of the United States. The collapse of the Communist bloc marked Bentsen’s Presidency, with the communist regimes of Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Albania and Romania being replaced by democratically elected governments. In 1990 East Germany and West Germany united for the first time since 1945.
In 1990 Iraqi dictator ordered the invasion of neighboring Kuwait, President Bentsen harshly condemned the invasion and worked with long-time Secretary of State Jimmy Carter to build an international coalition to force Iraq out of Kuwait. An international coalition consisting of the US, France, Canada, Britain, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand as well as Muslim countries Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, Bangladesh, and Oman. In a short three week war, Iraqi forces were pushed out of Kuwait. The coalition began to fall apart when Bentsen ordered American forces into Iraq for the purpose of removing Hussein, most Muslim nations refused to follow, with only Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait supporting the American-led effort. Traditional American allies continued into Iraq, and after a short and sharp ground war, coalition forces rolled into Iraq but Saddam Hussein had fled the capital. Western forces were unprepared for the occupation and building a new government,but was assissted by the Iraqi Army.
Under allied occupied Iraq, the Baathist Party was disbanded, its leaders remained in hiding conducint a guerrilla war against allied forces. The pretender SharifAli bin-Hussein was proclaimed King of Iraq by allied forces to give the country stable leadership, and to satisfy the Arab allies (Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, both of whom supported the restoration). Six months after allied forces entered Baghdad, Saddam Hussein was killed in a shoot out with French forces in Tikrit. With Hussein’s death, other Baathist leaders were captured, surrendered, killed or escaped to Syria or Jordan.
Worse case scenario President Ford is wounded in this attempt but eventually makes a full recovery, so a result of the sympathy factor his popularity and approval ratings rise substancially and he handily beats Carter in next year's presidential election.