If you could have witnessed any historical event what would it be?

[WI_DEM]

The Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk?
Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address?
Washington crossing the Delaware?
Patton slapping that private?
Lindy landing in Paris?
The JFK Assasination?...

[wtmusic]

1. Gettysburg Address

hands down.

[BobRossi]

2. Washington crossing Delaware.

Talk about the start of something big!
Lincoln at Gettysburg would be my backup choice.

[MsFlorida]

3. signing of the declaration

Just watched national treasure again - love that movie.

[AZBlue]

9. That's mine too.

Not just the signing - the whole process!

I love National Treasure too - have you seen 1776? It's great too - it's a musical though (thought I'd warn you in case that is a turn-off).

[AllegroRondo]

4. The premier of Beethoven's 9th Symphony

although Lincoln at Gettysburg would be up there also.

Or, another musical one, the premier of Stravinski's "The Rite of Spring".

[jobycom]

18. Oh, nice choice! nt.

[stop the bleeding]

5. the treaty of Versailles - sorry for spelling

or the landing on the moon sorry showing my age was born in 1973

[rpgamerd00d]

6. Creation

:)

[niyad]

7. the day the 19th amendment was ratified.

[Loonman]

8. Caeser crosses the Rubicon

On the way back to Rome.

[unblock]

10. reagan/bush41's 1980 deal w/iran to keep the hostages until inauguration

just as long as i could collect and distribute indisputable evidence of the treason.

[BOSSHOG]

11. JOHN HANCOCK doing his thing

Putting that big ole signature on that awesome document.

[justabob]

20. yes, also any/all of the orations by Sam Adams and others

surrounding the Revolution and Declaration of Independence.

[calico1]

12. Times Square on VE Day. n/t

[enlightenment]

13. Boudicca kicking the snot out of the 9th Legion

-- okay, she lost in the end, but what a show that must have been!

[azmouse]

14. I'd like to have seen what really happened

when the Titanic went down. Just a bird's eye view. I wouldn't have wanted to be on the
ship when it actually sunk.

[doublethink]

15. Bush Jr and all the Kings men ....

flown to Nuremberg and being tried on War crimes and whatever else they're doing against humanity. I know, not history, yet, but I can dream can't I. :)

[jobycom]

16. Any meeting of the Algonquin Circle.

I knew someone who was in JFK's motorcade when he was shot. Not an event I'd willingly witness.

[ThomWV]

17. Woodstock!

[RaleighNCDUer]

19. Nixon resigning.

I was in boot camp then, and missed it. Found out about it when the DI had us review our chain of command and, surprise, surprise, Jerry Ford was at the top of the list.

[Road Scholar]

21. Locking up of the president and vice president. Oh wait, that

hasn't happened yet.:shrug:

[alkaline9]

22. the day humans realized marijuana got them stoned...nt

[Cleita]

25. That would be on the Steppes of Eurasia in the Stone Age.

:-)

[GregW]

23. August 30, 1916 - Elephant Island - Antarctic Ocean

Shackleton returns to rescue his men.

[Cleita]

24. I did witness the JFK assassination and the assassination

of Lee Harvey Oswald after on live TV. And on edit the assassination of Robert Kennedy live on television.

[calico1]

27. I do remember seeing RFK's

assasination. I was with a neighbor watching with her. I was 10.

[meatloaf]

26. Given it's current violation, I'd be interested to witness

every aspect of the writing and adoption of the constitution, to see from a first hand perspective what the framers we're really after, what their true motivations were, and what the spirit of the law truly entails. Might offer a hint or two as to the inherent problems in the first draft.

[Hamlette]

28. Jesus raising from the dead. . .

of course, I'd want to guard the grave to be a witness to who really moved the body. BTW, why don't body raise up now like his did? They got an answer to everything.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. The Sermon on the Mount. The first perfomance of Beethoven's 9th.

I'm an agnostic, but I've always been curious about Jesus as an historical charector, and an admirer of his sayings.

Beethoven was a giant, and the 9th Symphony was his greatest work. I'd love to see how it was received the first time it blew the socks off an audience.

[Xithras]

30. The final days of Jesus.

It would be interesting to watch his trial, execution, and resurrection. Think of the questions that could be answered!

Of course, we'd all have to be very careful not to influence history while we were watching.

"Yea, so Jesus movethest into the garden near Jerusalem, followedeth by his flock, his twelve apostles, and a strange man in bermuda shorts. His followers siezed the strange man, pelting him with stones and denouncing him as a Roman spy. But Jesus called out to his followers to cease their assault, granting mercy to the foreigner and wishing peace upon the crowd. The stranger spoke not the tongue of Jesus, but his name was read from an inscription upon the parcel held in his hand and he was henceforth known as Handicam the Odd."