Time Travel - Change ONE Event In History..

[Roadie]

Inspired by the time travel to get a cheaper price on a gun thread..

If you could travel back in Time, and had the ability to change any one major event in history, and ONLY one, what event would you change, and why?

Discuss!

 

[malern28us]

JFK assasination.
Why- I think it was "the beginning of the end" for our current political system.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

I would go back to 1750 and start working on our founding fathers. I would beg, bully, cheat and plead them to not allow slavery into the republic they would build.

 

[wagyu52]

Take George Patton advice and take the remnants of the German army and declare war on the soviet union in 1944.

 

[femurphy77]

JFK assasination.
Why- I think it was "the beginning of the end" for our current political system.

This!

Upon reading the title of the OP I had already formulated this answer!

 

[CathyInBlue]

Blow up the Jekyll Island meeting where the Federal Reserve Bank was founded.

 

[hoosierdoc]

I'd delete this post

 

[Roadie]

I'd delete this post

Everyone's a critic

 

[IndyDave1776]

I would go to the Constitutional Convention and let men far wiser than I am solve the problems I would bring to their attention.

 

[hacksawfg]

Tell Brady to stay at home, prevent Brady Bill or Handgun Control.

 

[tv1217]

George Lucas would die shortly after completing Return of the Jedi...

 

[SEIndSAM]

Hitler would have died instead of being injured in WWI.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Everyone's a critic

Not thread... "post"...

 

[Roadie]

Not thread... "post"...

Ah, mea culpa..

 

[hoosierdoc]

Ah, mea culpa..

 

[Dr.Midnight]

Obviously changing some atrocity that happened in the past seems like a good thing to do, but what if preventing that act or event actually causes mankind to be worse off in the future?

Just doing a little deep thinking.

 

[44 MAGNUM SHOOTER]

Preventing Obama from becoming The President..... Why? Because he sucks.

 

[netsecurity]

Easy, I would buy Microsoft and Apple stock in the 80's! . The only logical move IMO is to better ones self rather than "play God" with the lives of others.

It should be against the rules to interfere with history of the world if time travel were a reality. For example, removing Hitler may have resulted in Stalinism/communism spreading over all of Europe. That was Hitler's biggest fear after all--many don't know this, but Jews and Communists were practically one in the same to Hitler (thanks to the Bolsheviks/Trotskiites). Oh yea, and if WW2 never happened, you most likely would never be born because the Baby Boom wouldn't have occurred!

Imagine if the US did not invade Iraq. The Arab Spring would most likely never have happened, and the status quo of poverty and oppression in the Middle East would continue to churn out suicide bombers.

I would not second guess history.

 

[rockhopper46038]

Maybe sidestep the fall of Rome until later in history? Potentially avoid the Dark Ages?

 

[24Carat]

I would have seen to it that Saul Alinsky never took his first breath.