Here you go: for the period 1/1/1900 to 12/31/1999, if you had ONE event you could go back in time to to witness in person, what would it be? And why do you wish to see it?
Rule #1: You can’t affect the outcome by being there.
Rule #2: Please be respectful with answers. 
Probably the one event that I would like to witness the process when Albert Einstein developed his theory of relativity.
Barak bow` shem Yahshua!!
Maranatha!!!
I would like to have been aboard the USS Ticonderoga during the Tonkin Gulf incident. I have heard too many differing and opposing stories about the actual incidents. It seems to me that the furor over what is peceived to have occured led directly to what became the most disastrous chain of events to befall the USA in the 20th century. I want the straight dope.
Easy one-step assembly instructions.
Pour Beer A in Uncle B.
I would have liked to have heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his “I Have A Dream” speech live. Wish I could have been there.
Jodi
Fiat Justitia
I would love to go back in time to JFK’s assasination in Dallas. Provided I could go back in time with thirty video-cameras and enough time to set them up in every possible angle and view of the event.
Maybe then we’d get a straight answer about it.
JMCJ
“John C., it looks like you have blended in very nicely.”
-UncleBeer
I would’ve liked to have been at the last Beatles concert, in San Francisco, 1966.
Am I the only one who is going to pick something fun?
“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather
I’d have liked to be in attendance at the ‘NBC Heidi’ game… so I could see the great comeback.
or on the bridge of some destroyer in the Leyte Gulf when the Japanese tried to sneak by.
† Jon †
Phillipians 4:13
My answer as a historian: Trinity, 1945 - the first A-Bomb detonation.
My real answer: Watching Marilyn Monroe take a shower sometime in the mid-'50s.
Gee, there are so many unsolved or questionable-verdict murders I could witness: William Desmond Taylor, Dot King, the Lindbergh baby, Thelma Todd . . .
Not that anyone would believe me when I got back, of course . . .
I’d want to go back and see whether Tim rejected Sharon after she rejected me. If he didn’t, then that’s the assumption I already made, and nothing in my life changes anyway. But if he did, then I would let out a yawp that Walt Whitman would hear from his grave.
“It is lucky for rulers that men do not think.” — Adolf Hitler
A few possibilities:
Hitler’s last day in the bunker.
On the stock exchange floor the day of the crash, 1929.
Fatima, whatever year that was.
1968 on the planet of Keytle-2 in the Crab Nebula where Sssioru’;'thep the fourth was inventing the transdimentional mind warp which changed the very fabric of life for the Keytelltwoians, launching them into a new, bold era of inner and outer space exploration and comprehension.
The look on his face!!
Hell is Other People.
John Corrado,
An interesting event. I wonder if you could find out who really did it???
Barak bow` shem Yahshua!!
Maranatha!!!
John Corrado,
Wouldn’t you feel cheated if it just turned out to be Oswald?
Probably the Wright Brothers’ first flight. I can’t imagine the sense of wonder that would have overcome any witnesses to that event.
Chaim Mattis Keller
cmkeller@compuserve.com
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
I’d like to be there the instant the world wide web was created. I mean, it had to have not been there one second, and been there the next, right? I know it sounds kind of bland, but I think it’d be really neat to see it.
What was the first website anyway? NCSA?
The moment my father first met my mother.
I’d create a diversion, they’d never get together, and POOF! I’d vanish just like that.
Talk about FUN!
Uke
You mean the world-wide-web didn’t evolve???
(sorry couldn’t help myself…)
Peace.
† Jon †
Phillipians 4:13
Nicely pointed barb on that retort Navigator. Well, I’m laughin’ anyway; but I’m a bit warped.
Easy one-step assembly instructions.
Pour Beer A in Uncle B.
Opening performance of Hamlet, by Francis Bacon, Queen Elizabeth, and Kit Marlowe. No, sorry, I meant by Shagsper.
Bucky