If You Could Change One Historical Event, What Would It Be?
- Thread starter Emperor Norton I
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ISOT myself to Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 with a Colt .45, in the Archduke's car. When we pass Princip, a hollow-point slug will have a one-way ticket to that terrorist's skull.
John Fredrick Parker
Donor
Revent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and/or a more succesful Reconstruction -- te greatest American statesman of his time, Lincoln could, I believe, accomplish the latter; the aftermath of the American Civil War OTL was, in so many ways, a story of lost opportunity.
Bavarian Raven
Banned
go to germany in 1935 and give them a nuclear physics textbook that deals with making bombs and the such 
(just kidding people).
the one event i would change? go back two weeks and buy a ticket with the winning numbers for the 50 million lottery
(just kidding people).the one event i would change? go back two weeks and buy a ticket with the winning numbers for the 50 million lottery
Yeah, I'd probably do that to. I'm too attached to how the world is now in that I'm used to it being my world that I wouldn't wanna change it too much except to remove the cynicism and remove some of the elements I don't like. A surviving JFK would do that more or less.
Wait outside the rear entrance of Ford's theater with a 12 gauge and give Booth both barrels the minute he steps into the light.
Then I'd plant a list of known conspirators in his pocket.
I sincerely believe that this country, in so many ways, would be a far better place had Lincoln's reconstruction plan had been the one to be implemented and that Lincoln, had he lived, could have squashed the Radicals by building a stronger national party with his relative leniency in the south.
Then I'd plant a list of known conspirators in his pocket.
I sincerely believe that this country, in so many ways, would be a far better place had Lincoln's reconstruction plan had been the one to be implemented and that Lincoln, had he lived, could have squashed the Radicals by building a stronger national party with his relative leniency in the south.
Stop Metallica's bus from flipping in 1986 by driving it myself.
This will butterfly me out of existence, but it's a worthy sacrifice.
This will butterfly me out of existence, but it's a worthy sacrifice.
Humor-February 7th, 2010. Drew Brees comes down with a sudden, serious case of the flu, and can no longer play in the Super Bowl. Colts Win!
(Indy fan if you can't tell, and yes, it still hurts and I'm still bitter).
Serious-September 11th, 2001. Tell the Pentagon exactly when and where the planes are, and who was involved.
(Indy fan if you can't tell, and yes, it still hurts and I'm still bitter).
Serious-September 11th, 2001. Tell the Pentagon exactly when and where the planes are, and who was involved.