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This is a case where books can go into so much more detail than movies can. In the book it was a lot more clear why preventing JFK's assassination caused all that turmoil and for the world basically to implode. The reason is simple; the past is obdurate. It doesn't want to be changed. In the book, there was a lot more time for SK to go into how Jake Epping's little changes caused ripple effects. He saved the janitor's family from being axed by their father, for example, but (I think) two of the brothers end up dying in Vietnam. There was also another sequence involving a young girl who was accidentally shot by hunters and paralyzed and things didn't work out so well for her, either.
In both the movie and the book it was jarring for Jake to come back to the present and find out it had been turned into 1985B on steroids from Back to the Future 2. One of the triumphs of the movie is in how they showed how painful it was for Jake to go back and set things right.
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