Timeless

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That's the name of a new TV show, but that's not what this post is about. To give you more of an idea of what I'm talking about, Timeless (on NBC) is a show where three people (a pilot, an ex soldier, and a history expert) are sent back in time when a man who is seemingly a villain steals the brand new time machine. These three use a back up prototype to follow the man to wherever his time machine goes (sounds corny, but it's not). I guess some tracking monitor tells them what part of history the villains are going to. Which is where my question comes up. One of the places they went back time was the night of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. While the history expert warns the danger of changing history (every action or change of action has a trickle down effect), she still tries to save Abraham Lincoln from getting shot. She doesn't succeed. Yet when they are sent back to the tragedy of the Hindenburg disaster they do change part of the outcome and when they return to the future the interference has changed the present life of the history expert. She has to return to her life, even though it's changed. I looked up some of the characters they put in each episode and get really interested because they use people that really lived and affected the past. Like one of JFK's mistresses is in an episode, and I had never heard of her. I looked it up and she was indeed a real person. I guess I've gone into a bit more than I intended. My main question is what part of history would you go back to? Some things you just couldn't change because of the scope of the problem. I don't believe you could go back in time and change the course of slavery because slavery didn't even originate here, plus not one particular thing caused it; many things had to be factored in. Going back to 9/11 would be my choice. Knowing what we know now going back in time and warning of the particular flights the terrorists were on would save thousands of people. You might say hey, maybe they wouldn't believe you. I remember back that far and they certainly would have grounded those flights and searched everywhere. People take bomb threats extremely seriously. But we can't go change it. However, I'd like to know when you'd go back in time, not because you want to see what the era was like, but to change or influence an event. Where would you go and what would you try to change? Preferably something in the grand scheme, not like going back and refusing to drive on a day you know you had a car accident.