If you were granted the power to travel back in time

[ZombieNixon]

to observe a single event, great or small, what event would you choose, and why?

[madison2000]

1. I would go back to Nov 2 and find out what the hell happened

in Ohio!

[immoderate]

2. Ben Franklin at work. (Self explanatory)

--IMM

[terrya]

3. NYC. July, 1969...Stonewall.

I would have loved to have been there...to watch the beginning of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement. It was history in the making.

[jonnyblitz]

32. Paris. 1968. nt

[jpgray]

4. My conception

Maybe it would give them second thoughts. :D

[Emboldened Chimp]

5. JFK's assassination...I'd bring a DV cam and plant myself...

behind the grassy knoll.

[edbermac]

8. Ditto...I'd put spy-cams all over Dealey Plaza...

[loudestchick]

13. Same here. Now, if we could change/interfere w/ events I might have

a different answer. Offing a young Adolph, springs to the top of the list.

[edbermac]

19. No No No!! You cannot interfere with history!!

That's what they tell me on every other episode of Star Trek...

[Arkana]

26. I wouldn't kill him

I'd just make sure he got into the Vienna art school he applied to!

[amber dog democrat]

6. One of three choices:

A typical day in the marshalling yards for the Texas and Pacific Railroad Yards in
Marshall Texas in 1945

or

a typical day on the levee/ waterfront in New Orleans in the fall of 1915 say at the Tolouse street pier.

or
hanging out in Galveston where the red snapper fleet of schooners tied up in 1925.

Either way, I would be taking lots of photos.

[Huckebein the Raven]

7. French Revolution

just to observe the events leading up it. Or as an alternative, hang out with Ben Franklin while he is living in France.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. 1858

to listen to the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

[fit4life]

10. March, 2004

So I could bet a shitpot of money on the Red Sox winning the Series.

[Deja Q]

11. 1970s...

Just to live out humankind's best decade.

[HeyManThatsCool]

12. june 12, 1994

At OJ's house... with a video camera. When he dropped the glove I'd have been taping


People getting away with murder makes me sick

[givemebackmycountry]

14. EASY! JUNE 4TH 1968 Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles

I would have stepped in front of Bobby Kennedy and taken the bullet myself. I would then be known decades later as "The Man who saved the world".

[CBHagman]

20. I agree with you so...

In saving one life, you might be saving thousands more. Imagine a country without Watergate, possibly without the invasion of Cambodia, possibly without having backed the coup in Chile.

It just destroys me to watch (and hear) the film record of that horrible, horrible day. The man saying, with a sob, "Oh, no, Oh, no."

[GalleryGod]

22. I Agree.

:cry:

[taught_me_patience]

15. I'd go back

and see if Jesus really did rise from the dead. (if he did, then I would convert)

taught

[xmas74]

16. "The Day the Music Died"

February 3,1959.

[bilgewaterbill]

17. The Final Countdown

Isn't that the name of the movie where the aircraft carrier went through a time warp and ended up at Pearl Harbor 12-7-41?

I'd go back and tackle that guy who interfered with the foul ball that cost the Cubs the NLCS.

[madison2000]

18. Interesting that no one has mentioned September 11

If we could go back with hindsight maybe we would find out what really happened.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

21. Good Friday...

Despite the fact the pugs tell us that we are pagans, I am a Democrat and a Christian and I would want to witness this event (and not the one directed and produced by Mel Gibson).Why? Because this is probably the single most important part of my life and given the opportunity, I would want to be there.

[ArnoldLayne]

23. The 3 day Battle of Gettysburg

in July 1,2 and 3rd 1863 in a bulletproof protected see through bubble though. :crazy: :crazy:

[Donailin]

24. no brainer

Area 51 Event.

The truth is out there.

[HeyManThatsCool]

25. Back to 82. Coach would put me in in the 4th quarter...

My whole life would be different.
Right now I'd be in the hot tub with my soul mate



:crazy::silly::crazy::silly::crazy::silly::crazy::silly::crazy::silly:

[GalleryGod]

27. Sorry! I need a further explanation!

:hippie: Por Favor?:hippie:

[HeyManThatsCool]

30. Uncle Rico- Napoleon Dynamite

:crazy::silly::crazy::silly::crazy::silly:

[hyphenate]

28. Several possibilities

The Boston Tea Party

The signing of the Declaration of Independence (though technically the signing happened over several months)

The day the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution OR the day the measures were discussed at their greatest length to understand far more their reasons for each one

April 18, 1775

The Boston Massacre

(I think a general pattern is emerging here)

[NashVegas]

29. 10/22/1981 - The Day My Father Died

Alone, in a hospital that was a six hour drive from his family. It is perhaps the single largest regret I have, that I wasn't there to offer comfort.

[noshenanigans]

31. The day a jet engine crashed into my room.

Oh wait.. I've been watching Donnie Darko *way* too much.

[ZombieNixon]

33. Kick for the morning crowd. n/t

[ArnoldLayne]

34. Kick

:kick: