This is a hard one. I think maybe Martin Luther King Jr.‘s ‘I Have A Dream..’ speech. Or maybe the first Woodstock (not that that is THAT historic, but still)
Watching the Boston Red Sox comeback in Game 4 of the ALCS, in 2004, breaking a 86-year curse. Heck, while I’m dreaming, I’d go back and watch the whole series in person. What magic.
Two from more recent history. I watched on TV, but would have loved to be there in person: The Berlin Wall coming down, and Obama’s victory speech in Grant Park.
Me… The creation of all things, That way I could finally no for sure, who is right: Evolutionist, Creationist, or Spaghettiist. Not to mention it would be the most awesome rainbow of color I could ever hope to see.
1981 eruption. When she blew her cap. I see that mountain almost everydayand I wonder what it would have been like. I’ve seen videos and hiked it but to witness the ash storm and everything would have been something. I was in the 5 th grade in the Midwest.
The Crucifixion and the Resurrection, i’d come back in this time and just be “damn, it was all just one big pile of BS all along, oh well, better put it on youtube quickly!”
I would definitely like to witness the assassination of JFK. Not because I’m morbid but because I’d really, really like to know what actually happened. And I’d like to be in the perfect vantage point with a much better video camera than Abraham Zapruder had so I could get better proof of what happened on the grassy knoll and other locations around Dealey Plaza on that fateful day.
napoleon bonapart and that dude whose name/country escapes me (they were enemies and then met up and decided they both hated the same country so they became instant bffs) making out. maybe it didn’t for real happen, but i totally saw a painting of them kissing. so i’ll trust the artist. and i’d like to see it in real life.
I’ll choose being a witness to the Gettysburg Address even though I know next to nothing about history
I’d also like to see the tryouts for Scarlet in Gone With the Wind.