How about any hour inside the library at Alexandria?
Hitler’s suicide?
Any good political meeting that we know the time/location but not the contents of?
As far as money makers, Sampiro may have it. Imagine being able to present a live performance by Mozart.
“Hey, babe. Guess what’s on tv tonight. On PBS(Premium Bricker Selection) we’ve got an actual kinescope of a Mozart concert. Then, on cable 51, we got the final episode of Three’s Company. Whatcha want to watch?”
There ain’t a smiley yet invented.
Well, at least it’s not smell-o-vision. And it’s a window, and the window is closed. And, we can hope, Elvis was sitting, so we would just hear a splash.
Unless he got up, turned around, and shot it for some reason. 
What’s the biggest “He said/She said” scandal-mystery out there? What really DID get said and done?
The Duke lacrosse team? There’s gotta be a better one than that.
I would not recommend opening a window to Event One.
Light can come through a window.
This woould be bad.
Crossing the streams kind of bad.
But how could you use one hour of observation to prove something *didn’t * happen? You might have had the BrickerPortal aimed at the wrong place, or missed it by one minute.
Kind of a losing proposition.
I wanna see a meteor hit the earth. That would be awesome.
The moment on this planet that multicelled life begins. Probably would not be a big seller to TV, but, I’d like to see it.
Or it could get you an unmarked grave in some New York construction project …
As for “gotchas:” How about an hour of video from John Ashcroft’s hospital room on a certain night not too long ago. Should be worth money to someone as well.
As for wealth: just a matter of research. Surely there have been treasures hidden, and everyone knows who hid them, but not where they hid them.
Another “gotcha:” the last hour of Chandra Levy’s life. Might put at least one scumbag in the cell he belongs in.
Come to think of it, the last hour of Natalie Holloway’s life (IIRC, that’s the name of the woman who disappeared in the Caribbean and the news media stayed on the story for months.) There’d be more publicity, but at least it would consist of real news.
There are probably quite a few moments in Karl Rove’s career that could provide ‘gotchas’ but it’s hard to say just where they are. But an hour of Dick Cheney planning what to do about Valerie Plame would be a wonderful “gotcha” because you KNOW it’s gotta be as ugly and guilty a thing as you could imagine.
Come to think of it, an hour of whoever set that Nigerian yellowcake scam up going about it would be nice. Very nice indeed.
How about a paired gotcha? A certain firefight in Vietnam in which John Kerry was involved. Should either shame the Swift Boaters off the planet or do the same for Kerry.
Wouldn’t need to focus the coordinents. Space it’s self was smaller. Any point in the universe would have been within the big bang.
Not to mention think of the practical applications. The light energy that would come through that portal would be so intense just capturing a small bit of it would solve the energy crises for a very long time. How? I don’t know. Maybe open the portal on the moon and melt it. Then use geothermal tech to tap the moon and transmit the energy back to earth via microwave beam.
It would be pretty neat to watch Apollo 11.
The problem with filming the assassination of President Kennedy would be: where do you point the camera during the critical 10 seconds? You can point it at Lee Harvey Oswald to prove that he actually shot his rifle, but how will that silence conspiracy theorists? They’ll just say that another person was also shooting from somewhere else.
I would have the camera in the room of Mary Jane Kelley (one of the victims of Jack The ripper) between 3:45 and 4:45 AM on 9 November 1888.
Or Lizzie Borden’s house between 10:30 and 11:30 AM on 4 August 1892.
If by magic we would be able to determine the exact date / time of a historical event, then for me I would like to watch the Arnold von Melchtal, Werner Stauffacher and Walter Fuerst vowing to form a defensive alliance on the Gruetli meadow on 1 August 1291. But this story on the beginning of Switzerland is probably mythical.
It would not matter what it showed, the CT would not buy it. Hell if you told them the sun rose in the East on that November day they would argue with you. Ignorance can be fought, stupid is a different thing altogether.
No, but it would get a shit load of hits on youtube.
Still wouldn’t beat that guitar kid though.
Am I the only one who read this as a positive movie review?
Um, doesn’t the sun rise in the east?
Anything with dinosaurs.
How about that guy picking up the debris outside Roswell?
The real question is, do we have to deal with that annoying Peabody getting in the way?
It’s obvious you are not a CTer. If the sun rising in the east was proof that Oswald acted alone, they would have the sun rising from every cardinal point of the compass to “prove” you wrong.