Fly on the Wall Eye Witness...

[Ole_Goat]

If you could be the proverbial fly on the wall witnessing an historical event, which event would it be?

As for myself...
The Beatles recording sessions
D-Day
Sacking of Rome by the Visigoths and Vandals
Watergate Breakin
Fall of Berlin
Continental Congress Sessions
Gettysburg Address being delivered
Picasso Painting Guernica
Woodstock (albeit I would one tripped out fly by the 3rd day)
Jefferson writing Declaration of Independence

[Nalencer]

John Lennon's death. And Kennedy's.

[Quest_techie]

caesars assasination
the cracking of indigo
the cracking of enigma
the testing of trinity
McCarthy at the mapes coming clean to journalists
the invention of the electric guitar...

[Leopold Plumtree]

Loss of the Waratah
Sinking of the Lusitania (with attention to the mysteries surrounding that)
Sinking of the Empress of Ireland
'36 Olympic Games
The careers of Graf Spee, Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen, etc...
A mass raid with 1000 B-17s and 700 P-51s
The sinkings of Wilhelm Gustloff, Steuben and Goya
Various nuclear and thermonuclear test blasts (esp. at Bikini)
S/S United States breaking Queen Mary's North Atlantic speed record
Sinking of the Andrea Doria

[TrippinBTM]

-Buddha under his tree when he attained nirvana
-Jesus in the desert. The last supper and crucifixion would be neat too, maybe his whole minsitry, after so much discussion, debate and uncertainty, it'd be neat to see the real deal, if he existed at all.
-the first shot at Lexington Green. I want to see what side fired first.
-Attilla's death, to see what really went down
-At Alcatraz, to see if that one guy who escaped and was never found, actually made it to shore.
-at Stonehenge, while the original users used it, to see it's real purpose and how it was used.

[Al13n]

I would take trippinbtms they are good, especially the budhha one ;)

[Acorn]

i dont know. anything would be cool really.

[Ole_Goat]

Nalancer has a good idea. Find out if anyone was really on the grassy knoll or is Oliver Stone full of shit.

[Stringmann]

The building of the pryamid at Giza, to see how it was built.
The day the Aztecs disappeared.
The battle of Little Big Horn, to hear Custer's last words.

[mart_182]

9 months before jesus was born, just to see if god actually got mary knocked up or whether she made it all up
woodstock
any bill hicks show
discovery of the wheel/fire
roswell
jfk assassination
humanitys first mushroom trip
my birth

and a few in the future to see what happens:

2012, i'll probably still be around but i want to know if anything happens now
the destruction of humanity
alien contact (it's gonna happen one day people)
my death, i wanna see how i go out and it'll be hard to observe when i'm actually croaking

[TrippinBTM]

Seeing how and when you die will take all the fun out of living. Say you find out you die at age 89 from a heart attack. That means all your younger days will be spent saying "gee, I'm leaping out of this plane, but the thrill is gone because I know I have zero death risk".

Death is the climax. It's like reading the end of a book before the beginning. What's the point?

[ElChivato]

yeah, i agree, i wouldn't wanna know how i die.
i think pretty much anything else would be cool.

[JanaXGIRL]

The death of Hitler
recording sessions of the Beatles
rec. sessions of the Doors
building of Charles' Bridge in Prague.

[Megara]

trial of socrates
sicilian debates
moon landing
the whole colonial period of american history

[element7]

trial of socrates

yes.

[Ole_Goat]

Attend the premiers of "King Lear", "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet",et al, in the original Globe Theater.