You can go back a prevent one Presidential assassination

[edhopper]

Who and Why?

[Srkdqltr]

1. History won't let you do that.

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I read time travel, I know.

[edhopper]

7. It is timey wimey

[thomski64]

10. ...I'll see your prevent one, and raise you........

....trade one...

[hlthe2b]

2. I want to say Lincoln, but realistically with the war over and with Grant eventually coming...

I honestly think JFK survival would have made the most difference in the future to our time.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Lincoln for sure

Johnson botched reconstruction so badly it laid the foundation for Jim Crow, the Klan and the next 100 years.

Lincoln would have handled reconstruction differently, and it would have been Klan members hanging from the trees instead of thousands of African Americans.

Second choice: RFK (I know he’s not a president, be had he not been assassinated, he almost certainly would have beat Nixon, and the course of history would have been changed)

[edhopper]

8. RFK

is a good choice. He ends the war and we get universal healthcare with his brother leading the way.

[rsdsharp]

4. Lincoln. We've been fighting the Civil War, in one way or another,

continuously since 1861. I think Lincoln really meant it when he said, “With malice toward none, with charity for all.” Had he lived, I think the post war era would have been different, and as a master politician, he may well have been able to manage the Radical Republicans.

[Boomerproud]

17. Correct. It also proves a military victory doesn't equal a cultural victory.

Yes, the slaves were freed and that's the most important thing but losing the war didn't change southern hearts and minds.

[marble falls]

5. He was a Prime Minister, but Patrice Lumumba of thr Congo. The Belgiums finally apologized for ...

... their hand in his assassination. A political leader who had no desire to get rich off European and US corporations piles of griftery.

[Charging Triceratops]

6. JFK, of course, but ...

Garfield was a great, intelligent, passionate candidate and would have been an excellent leader had he fulfilled his potential as our 20th president.

[First Speaker]

13. Thank you for this...

...Garfield would have been a great President. A very underrated figure. There's a recent biography that brings him to life.

[BlueTsunami2018]

9. Lincoln

Reconstruction would have gone much differently.

[Chainfire]

11. Lincoln may have helped the South get over the Civil War without carpet baggers and revenge.

His death, and its aftermath, helped promote an underground Confederacy that still survives in the Deep South and elsewhere, and wrapped in the blanket of his own party.

[GreenWave]

12. My heart says Benazir Bhutto

but I will type the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and prevent WWI single-handedly ( ) and not give Schicklgruber an excuse to launch the Third Reich and not give Trump speeches to emulate by his bedside.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

15. The Archduke was my first thought as well

[TexasDem69]

14. Lincoln

And Kennedy second. And if we’re going beyond presidents, MLK and RFK. Both would have made a really difference had they lived.

[snowybirdie]

16. Kennedy

He was trying to get out of Vietnam. If he succeeded, 63000 of young men of my generation would have lived! Instead Johnson listened to the generals.