I’d save Buddy Holly.
I really like him.
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For myself, I’d save John F. Kennedy, unhesitatingly. I’ve read quite a bit about him and, despite his personal foibles, think he had so much more to offer the country, if he’d only had the chance. The Vietnam War would’ve taken a significantly different (and better) course had he lived, IMHO. Detente could’ve come a decade earlier, and Cold War tensions lessened much more. On the other hand, civil rights and his domestic agenda would almost certainly not have advanced as quickly, because LBJ was able to use his virtual martyrdom to get things through Congress that might otherwise have languished.
Still, JFK’s assassination was a terrible tragedy for the country that would have been best avoided.
You’d end up saving Richie Valens, The Big Bopper and the pilot in one fell swoop.
The aforementioned great bluesman Robert Johnson, and his influence, the even greater (IMO) Charley Patton.
Maybelle Carter: Could she have been kept alive another ten years? I don’t know but that would have been cool.
Django Reinhardt.
If you can’t tell, I’m a guitar player.
Fats Waller.
George Gershwin: imagine the songs with the Beatles, and guitar/piano duets with Johnny Cash.
Charles Lindbergh, Jr.: The old man might have been less messed up, and more productive.
Harry Greb, “The Pittsburgh Windmill”, a middleweight boxer who defeated Gene Tunney and beat the crap out of Jack Dempsey in two rounds of sparring.
Cuss D’amato: Mike Tyson might have become the greatest fighter ever.
Corporal Thomas Bennett.
I know he was born too early, but I wish Ernest Rutherford had lived longer.
Nah, you just keep him off the plane.
John Lennon immediately came to mind, but someone already mentioned him. Then I thought Jim Henson, only to see someone mention him, too. Paul Newman! That’s who. Besides for being nice to look at and making good movies and food, he used his influence and money for good. That’s why I’d save him.
Tough question. Lots of the guys I’d wanna save died of illness or natural causes. I’ll count “suicide”, “heroin overdose” and “drowning in vomit” as natural causes for the purpose of this discussion. I mean, let’s face it, they’re only gonna do it again two days after I save their rockin’ or tortured asses…
So I guess I’d be super obvious and get JFK. If only to fuck with conspiracy theorists on a whole 'nother level 
Or maybe wing it and save Cliff Burton. Dude played the meanest bass.
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No, his point, I believe, is that he would save Phil Hartman, who was killed by her.
I got that. But there is also an ongoing kill thread – most of the people on that list are being killed to save others. In theory.
My godmother, my Aunt Janet, or Gigi, as we called her. She was my favorite aunt (hell, she was EVERYONE’S favorite aunt), and it would have been great for her to have seen my cousin Marc get married two years ago, and my cousin Maria becoming a nurse. (She was a nurse.) Marc’s wife Michelle would have LOVED her.
She was only 39 when she died of liver damage. (She was an alcoholic, but the really fucked up thing is, she had been sober for about five months. Then she caught some kind of virus, and because her body was still recovering from all those years of damage, she wasn’t able to fight it off.)
It was 20 years ago just this past month. :mad:
Oh, wow, I seriously never thought about that! That is very cool.
Or like** Boyo Jim** said, I guess I could keep him off of the plane but I like your idea of saving all of them. 
I guess either is good.
Warren Zevon. Because dammit, I want some more new Warren Zevon music.
Hmmm…I was going to break back in and suggest Robert Heinlein, but it seems he was born two years before the cutoff date. Darn.
For that matter, he died of a probably smoking-related disease…smokers, if a robot from the future appeared in front of you and told you you had to give it up cold turkey, would that be enough, or would he have to follow you around for a few months? 
I want to say JFK but if I really put my mind to it I would choose either Tupac or Biggie Smalls. You can say what you want about C[rap] but these guys were artist and had much talent. Its a shame that they were killed before the end of their careers. Imagine if we didnt have Starrynight or the Scream Because the artiest were killed before their creation
Duane Allman or Stevie Ray Vaughn
Marilyn Monroe. She’d be 83 this year!
I appreciate the thoughtfulness in saving Hemingway, but he is also beyond the 100 year mark.
Would you really bring him back into his pain?