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Lane Smith is Joseph Fitzgerald, a professor in history from the future. He has assumed the identity of an instructor at Harvard University in 1963. When he is visited by a colleague from his own time, we learn that his mission is to observe the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Fitzgerald is understandably nervous about watching his own ancestor be murdered, especially since he never got to know the man himself. His colleague reassures him that every field historian has moments of doubt such as this, then departs for the future. Fitzgerald decides to get it over with and journeys to Dealey Plaza in Dallas. However, when he sees Oswald raise a gun to kill JFK, Fitzgerald is unable to stand by and watch the killing, and so he intervenes to save the president's life.

A grateful President Kennedy (played by Andrew Robinson) invites Fitzgerald to stay at the White House for the night. As Kennedy and his entourage return home, the president is notified that Russian troops have captured West Berlin. Fitzgerald is astonished, and claims that Khruschev would never do such a thing. Kennedy sadly points out that Khruschev was assassinated earlier that day...

In his room that night, Fitzgerald frantically consults his time travel wrist computer, which informs him that there have been massive rips in the fabric of time. The assassination of Khruschev was not enough to "fix" the damage to the time stream; the computer informs Fitzgerald that all possible outcomes to this timeline will result in total war.

Meanwhile, the president and his chief Secret Service bodyguard have discovered that Fitzgerald's video camera is not the standard model it appears to be. Metallurgists can't open it up or determine what it may be. They summon Fitzgerald, who tells them that it is a holographic camera from the future, as he himself is. They are skeptical but are convinced of the truth when the professor demonstrates the camera's use. President Kennedy asks whether Fitzgerald was sent back in time to observe Kennedy's reaction to the Berlin crisis, but the professor replies that he didn't know about that. Kennedy, who has found Fitzgerald's half dollar coin - with Kennedy's picture on it - quickly deduces the truth: that Fitzgerald came to Dallas to witness an assassination, Kennedy's own (it is illegal to depict a living president on money).

Kennedy volunteers to return to the moment of the assassination and be killed, but Fitzgerald decides to send him to the future, saving his life. Fitzgerald himself goes back and is killed in his ancestor's place. In the future of 2172, Kennedy gives a rousing speech at Harvard, praising the sacrifices of men like Fitzgerald.

At the hospital, the dead body of "President Kennedy" (actually Fitzgerald) is being attended to by a doctor, who is actually Fitzgerald's colleague from the future. The Secret Service agent recognizes her wrist computer (identical to Fitzgerald's) and asks her if what they have seen will affect the future, and she replies that it won't - because it didn't.

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