Timequest (2002)

History is a study of what was, but its pursuit cannot help but raise a series of what-ifs? For instance, how would the fabric of American life have been woven differently if President John F. Kennedy had not been killed by the bullets fired at him on November 22, 1963? The question of an extended Kennedy legacy is central to Timequest (2002), a fictional reflection on the possibilities that were cut short by those hope-killing shots in Dallas. The viewer is asked only to swallow the improbability that a time-traveler with a conscience and a preemptive streak whisks himself back to that pivotal day and derails the freight train of destiny. After that, it seems only natural that JFK would avoid a war in Vietnam, partner with the Russians for improved exploration of outer space, and expose FBI honcho J. Edgar Hoover as a dreary old drag queen. The future, as Timequest so eloquently points out, could have been so much brighter if it had unfolded from just a slightly less dim past.