# You can pick ONE (1) point in history to visit & record **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090 "2015-10-29T15:30:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/21 "2015-10-30T00:41:38Z")
One of Socrates’ classes or symposia or whatever he called them. I’d like to know what he really said\* without the filter of that mystical commie pinko Plato. Of course, I wouldn’t know in advance how to pick a good one from a ho-hum event, so I would need some kind of advance knowledge, or ability to sample several different events, to find one worth recording. \*If, indeed, his method was the eponymous one, it might take a long recording to get at the meat of his views. I’m ok with that, but if the rules don’t allow it I’d probably opt for something else. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/22 "2015-10-30T00:46:13Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I think a more interesting way to ask this question is to assume that 10 such events are already covered by someone else. Who cares? Start your own thread. I’d like to see if the murder of Archimedes was as advertised. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/23 "2015-10-30T00:52:02Z")
July 6, 1957: I’d like to see Lennon meet McCartney for the first time–and hear Paul play “20 Flight Rock” for John. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/24 "2015-10-30T01:09:54Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I think a more interesting way to ask this question is to assume that 10 such events are already covered by someone else. That covers almost everything the OP suggested and leaves… less obvious choices to kick around. How about: > > [ol] > [li]The entire Passion and Crucifixion;[/li][li]Another event from the life of Jesus, your choice;[/li][li]The JFK assassination;[/li][li]The Mary Jane Kelly Ripper killing (most chance to catch the perp);[/li][li]The Tunguska Event;[/li][li]The K-T strike, with time to record a sampling of life at the time;[/li][li]A significant day in the life of Shakspeare - being an actor, director, manager, whatever;[/li][li]The murder of Julius Caesar;[/li][li]The death of Adolph Hitler;[/li][li]The attack on Pearl Harbor?[/li][/ol] > My personal and relatively small choice (besides a family-mystery one) would be any of the significant attacks by the East Area Rapist/The Original Night Stalker - an unsolved series of cases in which the same individual may have committed more than 100 rapes, murders and other assaults in several cities over a decade, but was never caught. (I lived in the middle of the EAR’s territory at the time.) Some good ones here and mentioned elsewhere. Im intrigued by the East Area Rapist too. In fact I post occasionally on one of the forums dedicated to the case. Watching Shakespeare and Burbage in Hamlet would probably be my pick. Shakespeare playing the ghost, and smirking to myself when Burbage is described as fat. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/25 "2015-10-30T01:13:12Z")
How long is a point? I want to record what Jesus actually said. As opposed to what those who wrote about him claim that he said. ---
**Author:** ![isitme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a587f6/32.png) [@isitme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/isitme)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/26 "2015-10-30T01:25:45Z")
1586, Roanoke - to see what happened to the settlers. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/27 "2015-10-30T04:20:02Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > I want to record what Jesus actually said. As opposed to what those who wrote about him claim that he said. “Blessed are the cheesemakers.” ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/28 "2015-10-30T06:23:03Z")
Stonewall, June 1969. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/29 "2015-10-30T09:14:12Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > “Blessed are the cheesemakers.” 🙂 That’s as likely as a lot of other stuff attributed to him. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/30 "2015-10-30T11:23:52Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You expect Jesus to be performing miracles while still coming out of the birth canal? Well, it’s not called “the miracle of birth” for nothing! Thank you, thank you! I’ll be here all day! ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/31 "2015-10-30T11:56:13Z")
I’d like to be at Ford’s Theatre, on that night . Maybe, I’d bump into John Wilkes Booth. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/32 "2015-10-30T12:03:28Z")
June 14 - July 8, 1947, Roswell New Mexico. I want to know for sure what was recovered. While I’m for sure it was not something of alien origin, I would just like to get it thru the heads of all the people who’ve gone nuts over this incident. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/33 "2015-10-30T12:47:08Z")
1. O[ur Lady of Fatima.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima) ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/34 "2015-10-30T13:42:04Z")
Follow the 37th Armor through the relief of Bastogne. It’s a chance to watch Creighton Abrams earn one of his DSCs It also puts to rest any debate about how clearly he disobeyed orders in the final breakthrough. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/35 "2015-10-30T13:44:11Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > 1. O[ur Lady of Fatima.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima) Except that observers who weren’t the children saw nothing. ---
**Author:** ![LiveFree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@LiveFree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveFree)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/36 "2015-10-30T14:20:33Z")
The day my grandparents were married. Two of the most admirable people I’ve ever known. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/37 "2015-10-30T14:26:33Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > (Or dinosaurs. They \*are \*awfully tempting. Is there any way to get the trial of Jesus, an ancient battle and dinosaurs in the same room?) In ancient Roman times, you were found innocent or guilty based on how well you fought a utahraptor in the Thunderdome. It’s all in the Gospels. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/38 "2015-10-30T15:04:48Z")
The day Thea collided with the infant Earth. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/39 "2015-10-30T16:39:18Z")
I’d take the assassination of Caesar. It would be interesting to see how closely it matches with the historical accounts. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-pick-one-1-point-in-history-to-visit-record/736090/40 "2015-10-30T17:07:12Z")
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