My first though when contemplating the essay prompt was to go back in time and change a horrific event: The Crusades, The Rape of Nanking, and the Nazi Genocide. But what would I really do? Kill Hitler? I would end up shot for stepping in Germany. Then my next thought was to bet all of my assets on the biggest sporting upset of human history, the 2007 playoffs, the #1 Dallas Mavericks losing to the mediocre Golden State Warriors. But then again how much money would I make, having only a $93 net worth? It then occurred to me why not do it all. If I could spend the next year of my life in the past or future, I would go back to the year 1963. I would witness the single greatest speech in human history, Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream Speech.” Martin Luther King Jr’s non-violent approach replicated the approach my Mahatma Gandhi, as means to throw off the …show more content…
Kennedy. While John F. Kennedy would be riding along in his limousines, I would bring a police officer to go to the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building with me where I would conveniently meet Mr. Lee Harvey Oswald setting up his rifle. The officer would simply arrest Lee Oswald and that would be the end of the any assassination attempt, and would remove any chance of the presidency of the Lyndon B. Johnson, a president which The Week Newspaper has named “The Worst President of Modern Times”. John F. Kennedy would remain president and ease the race relations as well as the Vietnam War tension in the United States, considering there is no Grassy Knoll Shooter. Given an opportunity to go to the past, the course of human history has a potential to be changed from helping my family prosper through poverty to saving a President of the United States to witnessing the “I Have a Dream Speech” by Martin Luther King Jr. The year 1963, the year that everything