Not knowing the true nature of time, none of us can really know what will happen. This is sort of a pet peeve of mine with sci-fi time traveling stories. It seems that none of them really bother to explain what, in their universe, time is. By my count, time could be of several different types and affect you in several different ways:
Parallel universe
In this version, you will have created a branching timeline from the moment you altered time. Lets say every decision anyone ever makes can be divided into 2. From the moment you’re born, then, you would have been creating alternate universes where in one, you chose A, and in the other, you chose B. If you killed Oswald, you wouldn’t change the original timeline. Kennedy would still be dead, but you would have created an alternative timeline in which he wasn’t. Also, you may return to your original timeline, but in the interest of consistency, you would probably get returned to the future, but in this new alternate timeline. This is sort of Star Trek’s canon nature of time. They have an entire mirror universe that’s similar in almost every way except the people there are mostly jerks
One timeline, within time
OTWT postulates just one timeline with none of the crazy parallel universe stuff. You change it, break it, alter it, and it will distort this version of time, and you along with it. Unless you stepped outside time in your time machine, then you are not immune from it. When people talk about the “Grandfather paradox(ie. you can’t go back and kill your own grandfather because then you wouldn’t be alive to kill him)” they are suggesting that there is only one timeline and you are a part of it
One timeline, outside time
Like the above, except your travels through time makes you step “outside” time, meaning changes in it will not affect you. You’ll still be the you that went back to kill Oswald, and you could go ahead and off your own grandfather too. I suppose this has less to do with time itself than with how you managed to slip through it.
Time ripple
A few TV shows I’ve seen has this as the true nature of time. In it, time is either one or many, it doesn’t matter. What seperates this from the above is that the time traveler is essentially sticking to one timeline and can see the effects of time as it slowly affects things throughout history. Time is slow
Changes you make in a timeline isn’t immediately obvious. You could kill your own grandfather, but in time, you will disappear because you don’t exist. As the flashpoint where Oswald is killed happens, it ripples slowly throughout time. The world changes before your eyes. If you had killed your grandfather, you’d see yourself disappear from family pictures, your wife being married to someone else, and how the world would be like without you. This is kind of dumb since it assumes that time itself has a speed limit, which is extra suspension of disbelief on top of more suspension of disbelief.
Static time
Is time like a movie? Movies are basically still frames sequentially viewed to give the illusion of motion. I don’t know what time is, but I have a hard time picturing everything we see as infinitely small increments of stillness layered and given the illusion of motion through some spectacularly cosmic energizer. Stephen King did this in the Langoliers
Of course there are small variations of the above. It could be a parallel timeline you’re creating in which case you’d go back to either the timeline you’re from in which Oswald still shot Kennedy, or through some invisible hand of creative writing you’d end up in the timeline you created. Maybe there’s only one timeline and if somehow Kennedy’s death indirectly causes your non-birth, you wouldn’t be able to kill Oswald. Or a fated timeline in which Kennedy’s going to die no matter what, and you could kill Oswald but a tree falls on him, or he chokes on a pretzel and dies. It would be a different timeline, but not one that would be markedly different from the one you’re used to. Sorry about the long rant, but time travel bugs the hell out me when used in fiction.