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Showing Original Post only (View all)If you could witness one historical event in person--what would it be? [View all]
...it would be hard to choose. To see Burbage as Hamlet, at the Globe...the Gettysburg Address...the first performance of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony...so many. But if I had to choose, I would be in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, with a really good pair of binoculars and a central position. How about everyone else?
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If you could witness one historical event in person--what would it be? [View all]
First Speaker
Mar 2021
OP
While my first thought was the Gettysburg Address I think id rather be present when the Constitution
dem4decades
Mar 2021
#4
I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. The Big Bang would have been a lot more spectacular.
Ocelot II
Mar 2021
#22
Heck, I'd be happy if I just got to see Led Zeppelin play live in person.
iscooterliberally
Mar 2021
#14
This reminded me of a hysterical book series I read, The Chronicles of St. Mary's
tanyev
Mar 2021
#21