Bring a Famous Person from the Past to the Present.

If you could bring a famous person(s) from the past , for an afternoon, to the present, who would it be? What would you show him?

I would bring
Ben Franklin and walk around with him in Philidelphia - listening to his stories.
Abraham Lincoln, same as above only in Washington D.C. Avoiding Ford's Theater.

 

Yup, Ben Franklin can't be beat. Walk around Philly nude eating tomatoes, which is what Ben Franklin did on occasion. Of course back then peolpe thought that tomatoes were poisonous.

 

John Lennon.. to walk around his Dakota Building in NY and talkin' about music, world.. peace!

 

I'd like to watch Jefferson read the amendments to the constitution!

Taking Edison thru BestBuy might be a hoot as well.

 

franklin walked around Philly naked? Huh?

Seeing Hendrix play would be pretty cool. And I'd bring back the Buddha. The world needs someone like him. I'd say Jesus, but that's been done already, haha.

You much of a shut-in recluse?

 

I think I would pick Christopher Columbus, I would show him around New York, I think. To show him what became of the country he found.

 

Abraham Lincoln, and I would re-elect him president!

 

No doubt he is capable, but I don't he would be considered "Electable" in this century.
There are more physically attractive candidate available. The TV screen wouldn't like him (scares little kids - etc.). The talking points he needs to make couldn't be made in the required 10 second sound bites.

 

I would bring George Sand and show her how women dress nowadays, I bet she would like it

 

I would get Jack kerouac and walk with him around any of the big cities and listen to his ideas of american culture nowadays. Or maybe with Washington or john Adams.

 

i would bring back ghandi. we could just sit in my house in the air conditioning, or we could stay in my shed during the winter. i don't know what we would do, but i am sure eventually it would be something cool.

i could bring back the lindbergh baby and see what would become of him.

 

He would probably weave some clothe. I understand clothe weaving was one of his hobbies.

 

whose, ghandi's or the lindbergh baby's. if it is ghandi's, then we will make the clothes of the new supreme order in the republic of tax refunds. so often, the poor and sick are passed aside by the ones who are in our highest elected offices. the working man has become thy leaders mindless foot soldier, pushing on until the pig is fatter and the soldier is left in ruins. the supreme order shall change all that is wrong to right. watch the masses in the elections to come. the numbers carry a message.

 

Lincoln, Gandhi, and FDR are on my list.
Not because they were saints, but because they were humans.
They did work that is considered incredibly virtuous by many Americans, yet I am not sure of the benevolence of their motives. They ameliorated problems but at the same time contributed to the shit-storm we find ourselves in today.

Underneath the legend is an ambiguity I would love to clear up.

 

Jesus. I'll bring the weed, he'll make the wine -- it'd be sweet.

..or Joan or Arc.

 

Every one from the bible so they can see what a mess it is 2000 years later.

(But the meant good, offcourse)

 

Gandhi...seeing he was perennially under dressed, how long could it take to clothe the poor, sick masses, and the working man?

 

If you brought back Joan of Arc...would it be in bad taste to invite her to an outdoor Barb-B-Que?

 

The orginal post said "for an afternoon" so.. english speaking from a recent enough era to grasp the present in 6 hours and comment on it....

Edison, Bell, Conant, Ike, JFK, Malcom X each would be interesting.

Hmm, Von Braun would be another good one.

 

Socrates, or that indian cheif who masecred gen. custer in his last stand... (Sitting Bull was it?)

as long as a translator makes the trip in time with them