"Gift",...a story set on a parallel Earth.

Former President John F. Kennedy who held the office from 1960 through 1968. Is seen here in a portrait taken by the BBC for his last public interview in 1992. Mr. Kennedy remembered for the events in October 1962 when the world was on a knifes edge of nuclear war.

That, and his work in overturning American racial segregation support for the space program beginning the process of banning all nuclear weapons mediating the Canadian Quebec civil war , and his founding of the Department of the Arts.
He returned to politics late in life to run, and be the first governor of the new State of Mannahatta. Formally New York City.
Mannahatta being the 53rd state admitted to the Union in 1983. This after Guam, and Puerto Rico became states in 1975.
Former President Kennedy passed away in 1993.

Besides his many legacies to nation, and the world. He is most revered for his posthumous book, and documentations released in 2018. These revealed the existence, and contact with parallel worlds. His book "The Six Earths" changed human history.
The heretofore suppressed discovery, and tentative contacts with two of these worlds was made public by his daughter Caroline as JFK wished 25 years after his death.  This in a ceremony at the Department of the Arts. At which not only his book, and documentation was presented to the world but also the first known appearance of an individual from Earth-3. Her name is Toni Morrison, and she's an author.

Her Earth as Ms. Morrison describes is almost identical to ours. Among the exceptions being a longer Great Depression a different Royal line in Britain. They have a Queen not an Emperor. Also their first moon landing was a success.

A major recent change from our history came in November 1963. Their President Kennedy was assassinated by a conglomeration of intelligence agencies, and organized crime. After which Earth-3 went on a long socio-economic downward spiral.

That America is now a divided impoverish nation. The rest of the world is in a state of confusion war, and oppressions. Also their planet is suffering a possible extinction level change in it's climate.

The other five Earths are very different.

One is a pre-industrial hunter gatherer culture. Another is very similar to Mars, and never evolved life. The most advanced is a Neanderthal interstellar society. Yet another is in the long aftermath of a major asteroid impact. This seemed to have happened 400 years ago.

The final world Earth-6 is dominated by Trilobites. These on our world were a pre-historic form of shallow sea crustacean.

There were attempt by the authorities to stop this dissemination of these historic facts. However Caroline as per her father's wishes released all the classified files onto the world net. This with a unique form of inscription with makes it impossible to delete or alter.

This the opening to many worlds was President Kennedy's last gift. 

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More details of the parallel Earth that Ms. Morrison is visiting in the above story.
Peter Best stayed in the Beatles. Ringo died of Polio as a child. George was never born his father having been killed in WW2. Another artist unknown on this world filled that place. The Edsel was a mild success, and is still being built by Ford. Newfoundland is a U.S. state. It nearly became one on our world Earth-3 in the late '40's. India is three different nations. Australia has been a republic since 1994.
Germany  in WW2 made a small nuclear bomb, but didn't use it. The Russians overran it's construction site before it could be moved. The Russian were making their own bombs by 1947. Two years before they did on this Earth. Only one American A-Bomb was dropped. This on an uninhabited island to show Japanese observers.

The first internet message was sent in 1964. Five years before Earth-3, our world. DVD's came a bit early in the late 70's along with CD's, and cheap cell phones. There are four international space stations. China sent a manned mission to the moon in 2015. However one of the eight astronauts dies of an unknown infection while there. The surviving crew is quarantined on the Chinese space station to this day.The Civil Rights Act which ended legal segregation in both America's came sooner in 1962. There was a failed assassination attempt on JFK a month later. Limited Gay rights came in 1965. The last of the American military "advisors' came home from Vietnam in 1964.

There was a major flu pandemic in Mexico in the early-1990's. This took near half a million lives there, and parts of the U.S. southwest. This butterflied away the Cocaine Cowboy Cartels. Heroin stayed the major illegal drug. There was sentiment to build a US/Mexican wall to prevent another cross border pandemic. This was refused by the federal government as an irrational response to an international tragedy.

A footnote.
A failed businessman named Trump is doing 25 to life.
This for fraud jury tampering multiple statutory rapes including his youngest daughter attempted homicide of a federal agent, and selling classified documents to a foreign power.