I’d never heard of Turturro, and his wiki was unenlightening to showbiz-challenged me. Have I accidentally reinvented some bit of movie dialog he once delivered?
Yeah, in IPA it’s /xɔx/. Wait wait, I’ll get to it! If you know how to say “loch” with that guttural “h” sound, or Yiddish words like “chutzpah” – you’re looking for that “ch” sound. So start a word with that “ch” sound (which is like a throaty “h”) and put the vowel of “thought” in between (well, that’s going to depend a bit on dialect, but you get the idea.)
So about like horking up a hairball, right? 
And I was also sure your comment must have been related to Turturro.
What about bringing Woodrow Wilson to the present and seeing that there had been a black president? Wilson is the one who thought Birth of a Nation was a great film.
Good one! And Wilson didn’t just think that Birth of a Nation was great. One of his books, History of the American People, was used as source material for the film.
Woodrow Wilson and race - Wikipedia
There are a lot of people whose views concerning present-day issues are sometimes speculated about. Jesus is number one. Ronald Reagan is another one. As is Mohammed.
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Frederick Douglass are all in this group. I’m not up enough on feminist history, but there must be great feminists of the past where there has been speculation on what they would say about some current issue.
Anyone subject to such time travel would be hit hard with culture shock. Whether they could get past that, to see their new present with great insight, is of course impossible to say.
P.S. Marx and Lenin.
I think Jesus was mentioned once or twice. I’d bring him back, not because I’m particularly religious, but mainly because I’m not. The general consensus of serious scholars is that the historical Jesus really existed, and the real nature of this historically important figure has been a source of endless fascination. He’s arguably been more influential than any other figure in history, yet ironically virtually nothing is definitively known about him.
I’m fascinated by credible academic research suggesting that Jesus was likely more Che Guevara than holy worker of miracles, that he was a revolutionary whose primary mission was liberating Judea from the Romans, and that such preaching as he did was part and parcel of this effort. I suspect he’d be deeply interested in the modern world. His reaction to both historical and modern Christianity would be priceless. Once we got the language issues sorted out we could have these discussions over a few pints. I’m sure he’d be amenable.