what if you transported back to October 1960

[datasuspect]

and walked into an FBI office with a fully functioning laptop with the zapruder footage and other historical documentation of the Kennedy assassination?

[mopinko]

1. they's shoot me?

[Archae]

2. If anyone did that...

They'd soon be enjoying their stay at the Happy Hilton. :crazy:

[sakabatou]

3. I'd probably be arrested

[Duer 157099]

4. I'd log onto etrade and buy IBM

and put a standing buy order in for the IPO of Microsoft

[zen_bohemian]

16. I was thinking the same thing LOL

n/t

[txlibdem]

18. Ditto

I'd buy a boatload of AT&T stock, IPOs of: Microsoft, Qualcomm and hold until just before the tech crash, Cisco, Gold when it was down, Caterpillar (which traded at $2.65 in July of 1962 and is now over $80).

The key is to have the historical prices for a boat load of stocks and the stock splits. Maybe buy on the dips and sell when it jumps up...

I suppose you'd want to throw a few losers in there every now and again to keep the FTC/SEC off your tail. Now all I need is that pesky time machine...

[MrMickeysMom]

5. I think it'd be time to find the DeLorean...

Unless you managed to get directions to the Kennedy compound before the election... Then, we'd all thank you when you returned back to the future

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. they would take you away in a straight jacket and put you on Thorazine

a frontal lobotomy would be in your future.

[trof]

33. Just so ya know, it's 'straitjacket'.

From wiki:
A straitjacket is a garment shaped like a jacket with overlong sleeves and which is typically used to restrain a person who may otherwise cause harm to him/herself and others. The ends of the sleeves can be tied to the back of the wearer, so that the arms are kept close to the chest with possibility of only little movement.

Although straitjacket is the most common form, strait-jacket is also frequently used, and in Scotland, strait-waistcoat (archaic). The spellings straightjacket and straight-jacket are erroneous, when in fact, "strait" means "tight" or "narrow". Straitjackets are also known as camisoles.<1><2><3>

Straitjackets' effectiveness as a restraint makes them of special interest in escapology. The straitjacket is also a staple prop in stage magic and is sometimes used in bondage games.

The negative connotations straitjackets have as an instrument of torture come from the earlier era of Victorian medicine. Physical restraint was then extensively used both as treatment for mental illness and as a means of pacifying patients in understaffed asylums.

Institutional straitjackets tend to be made of canvas or duck cloth for material strength. Jackets intended as a fetish, sexual fantasy or fashion items often use leather or PVC instead.

[MrScorpio]

7. It has actually happened...

The things are in the Pentagon basement will astound you

[Lucian]

12. Your reply interests me.

Do tell.

[Moondog]

24. Ah, then you would know about

the purple water fountain ....

[lunamagica]

8. I'd just mail it with instructions and then head out to Liverpool, nt

[Joe Fields]

20. fantastic reply.

:toast:

Think I would have joined you.

[cynatnite]

9. I would mail notes to myself...

Yahoo
Google
Microsoft

After I made a couple of billion or so, I'd beat Ailes out by forming my own version of Fox News.

In other words...I'd rule the effing world!

Oh, and I'd turn right around, leave the FBI office, and head over to Bobby's. He'd believe me.

[BlueIris]

10. I'd head out to New Orleans and look up E.C. Garrison.

Give him a heads up.

I sincerely doubt that there's anyone who could stop the Kennedy assassination(s), even with time travel and evidence. Might be able to distract the government with that whole "time travel" concept for a bit, though.

[Bombero1956]

11. I'd make sure that the following asshats wouldn't get deferments

George W. Bush
Dick Chaney
Saxby Chambliss
Rush Limbaugh
Rudy Giuliani
Rick Santorum
Richard Shelby
John Ashcroft
Newt Gingrich
Tom Delay
Dick Armey
John Boehner
Mitch McConnell

Maybe if they knew what war was like they wouldn't be in such a rush to send others to fight and die overseas.

[Lucian]

13. I'd rather go back to the Crucifixion...

and see if the events that happened in the New Testament really did happen.

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

29. Take My word for it.

I was there. :(

[DFW]

14. They interrogate you until you told them what planet you came from

A laptop in 1960 would have been about exotic as a Chevy Impala would have been to Thomas Jefferson.

[MilesColtrane]

15. You'd be taken to Groom Lake.

You'd be "interrogated" repeatedly until you pissed blood.

Then when they had grown tired of hearing your story, you would be dissected.

[av8rdave]

17. I would be too busy convincing my ex in-laws to not have sex

[Old Troop]

22. We have a WINNER!!!!!

[hunter]

19. As Dr. Who says, I'm a very dangerous fellow when I don't know what I'm doing.

Is it a game, or is it real?



Do you get a better world when you re-roll the dice?

Time travel is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

[Blue_Tires]

21. a black man in 1960 would not just waltz into an FBI office...

i'd kind of be stuck...

[Old Troop]

23. Oh, I think they'd be very happy to make you "comfortable" in their office.

[Moondog]

25. Uh, those guys were pretty much

convinced that Nixon was going to win the upcoming election.

And a functioning laptop? Heh, they would have thought you were from somewhere else, and made you an MK Ultra subject ....

[pink-o]

26. Don't forget Hoover was head of the FBI...

He had a lot of people on his enemies' list for just reading the wrong newspaper. Something like that would've landed you in the lab, the torture chamber, or the interrogation room till he found out what he needed, then killed you.

But if I were transported back to October 1960, I'd locate my 5-year-old self (who was actually watching the Nixon/Kennedy debates...NO LIE,my finding DU was pre-ordained!) and give her a blueprint for her life. Specifically, which men and which career paths to NOT waste her time on!!!

Oh, and I'd tell her it's okay to be 6'1". She wasted far too many hours hating her height!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

30. I wanted to be a tall woman & I hated being intimidated for being short.

Mom-- five foot seven

Dad -- five foot eleven, 180 lbs.

Not small people. I had uncles on both sides that were six foot three.

Me: Five foot three, size nine junior petite in high school. Sister: five foot four, size five.

My daughter is also five foot three. Her father is six feet seven. :wow:


I still hate men who are tall and love to intimidate others, especially women.

[MiddleFingerMom]

31. I've always thought tall women were hot...

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And the ones that wear heels?
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WOO-WOO!!!!!!
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I would not mind nor be the least bit intimidated by a SO who was taller than me (5'10").
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It would make it easier to look up her skirt... but harder to look down her blouse.
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If she REALLY loved me, we could take turns dropping pencils.
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Some days, I'm just WAY more sophomoric than others, n'est-ce pas?
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[pokerfan]

27. Read Replay by Ken Grimwood

A man in 1988 suffers a heart attack and finds himself back in his life in 1963. First thing he does is try to prevent the assassination.

http://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

28. Forget the FBI

I'd go to the Presidential debates, and talk to both candidates afterwards.

I'd tell JFK to NEVER go to Texas under any circumstances, and to pull the plug on the CIA.


Then I would tell Nixon to cut his ties with the Bush Crime Family and go back to his Quaker roots, once he left Washington DC after the Eisenhower administration.


Would they listen to Me? Well, I am Jesus, so I certainly hope so.

[madinmaryland]

32. I was being conceived, so I would not go back, lest I mess it up.

:yoiks: