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If You Were In Dealey Plaza on 11/22/63

How would you prevent the assassination of JFK?

  • Alert as many police officers as you can that there is a gunman on the 6th floor of the School Book

    Votes: 33 68.8%

  • Alert as many police officers as you can find that there is a man with a gun on the Grassy Knoll.

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Use the dimes in your pocket to make as many phone calls as you can to the police warning of a gunma

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • None of the above. Let the events of that day enfold as recorded in the history books.

    Votes: 14 29.2%
  • Total voters
    48
  • Poll closed .

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Please Read This OP Before You Vote!

It's one week until the 48th anniversary of the JFK assassination so I thought it would be a good time for a JFK conspiracy related poll.

This poll is a little different, though. It's inspired by Stephen King's new novel 11/22/63 which was released this month. In King's book a time traveler has the opportunity to go back in time and try to prevent the assassination.

In the book the protagonist has several years to surveil Lee Harvey Oswald and convince himself that Oswald is the lone shooter. (He is 95% per cent sure there is no conspiracy but doesn't want to take any chances).

In my scenario, however, you don't have that luxury.

You fall asleep and when you wake up you are in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963. It is 12:00 noon. You have ten 1963 dimes in your pocket. (Pay phones are 10 cent per local call and calls can't be traced if you don't talk too long.) You have no weapon.

You have one-half hour to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Would you... (vote above).
 
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I'd probably put in a call to the DPD and give a direct threat to the President's life if he entered Dealy Plaza. Something like "If the president goes to Dealy Plaza he's a dead man I tell you, a dead man!" then head for the TSBD's sixth floor and try and distract Oswell so that he wouldn't have the opportunity to shoot. Of course if I was a huge believer of the immutability of time, I'd just go and see how many cans of coke you could by for 50c and then put the rest on a bet that Americans would land on the moon on the 20th July 1969.
 
I'd stand on the other side of the street from the depository, point to the sixth floor window and shout, "Is that guy with the gun supposed to be up there?!"
 
But I wanna fistfight Lee Oswald! and then go to the Carousel for drinks and a show.
 
yup, I'd go and punch out oswald while he's still on his lunch, then shoot jfk myself framing oswald in the process

then later, I'd hypnotise Ruby into being an assassin before going off and shooting Martin Luther King, framing any redneck in the area

then I'd go shoot Reagan or something

<<<woke up the wrong side of the bed
:p
 
I'd sneak up on Oswald, grab his ankles and throw him out the window.

I'd marry Oswald's hot Russian widow, play myself in a movie about the incident and invest my money in Honda, Toyota, Casio and Microsoft as time goes by.

I'd also stop Marilyn Monroe from killing herself, for which she'll thank me again and again and again....
 
I wouldn't do anything lest the new timeline somehow turn out way worse. I could go back into the future and find out that because JFK didn't die that day America is now a colony of Luxembourg which is ruled by some madman that addresses his subjects through the Cookie Monster from Sesame St.

"Emperor Extremous says all those with names that start with 'G' will die on Thursday. Cookie! Cookie! Cookie! Mmmmmmrah mrah mrah."
 
I would buy a rifle and wait on the grassy knoll with frangible bullets so I could show conspiracy loons exactly what their idiotic claims would look like.
 
I wouldn't want to change history, so I'd just find myself a good spot to watch the action. And since there may be tree twigs falling from the first shot, I'd carry an umbrella. Even though it's a sunny day, I'm sure no one would think anything of it.
 
I tightly wrap the dimes up in my sock to form a cosh, knock Oswald out and become a national hero.
 
Time travel is fraught with difficulties!
As LHOLN wasn't thwarted in -this universe-, any changes possible would be in some other universe...
And there may be just one of those that is receptive to time travelers..
And the guy that influenced the admiral of the Grand Fleet to stay in port during that storm, so Japan wasn't saved by the Kamikaze wind, and was made a vassal of China, which then went to find and colonize the Western Hemisphere, expanding across the US to the east, where they -didn't- find any Europeans, as some guy had influenced Queen Isabella into not financing that "round earth" flake, or there's the traveler that showed Europe all about penicillin before the Black Plague, or the guy that nursed Paul out of his hallucination, so Christianity dissolved as a minor Hebrew cult after few years..
If someone has a time machine, how many others will, and have their own desire to change history... Have Caesar call in sick on the Ides of March...
:)
 
Oh and I would warn people the first episode of Doctor Who would be marginally delayed.
 
Oooooooo, interesting. I'd go with an anonymous call to the police about a "co-worker" acting suspiciously with a rifle in the depository and a little lurking around, just in case.
I'd probably buy a camera too.
 
I voted none of the above. That is an easy position to take from my keyboard. But if I was actually there, I think I would just find his rifle and take the bolt out of it to make it harmless unless used as a club.

Could a person just walk into the TSBD and search the sixth floor without being questioned? Given that I only have 30 minutes, I might find Oswald already up there awaiting JFK's arrival. Not sure I could take him in a fight or that I would want to try knowing he is armed and a former Marine.

Ranb
 
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