Lincoln's.

I've no idea whether Reconstruction would've been successful with him at the helm, but it almost certainly would've gone better.

My son. It would likely only delay his death, as he was determined to end his life. Even off it was only for one day, it would give me another chance to let him know i loved him, to let his younger siblings see him one last time.

My friend, Chris, who ended his life. It's been years, but I'd give just about anything to have him back.

Harambe.

In terms of US History, Abraham Lincoln, by far. What a completely different country this would be today. Or at least would have had a good chance to be.

Fred Hampton. I don't mean to pass over other civil rights martyrs, but the Black Panthers were something special. Real revolutionary politics, organised, and taking direct action; the high-water mark of leftest politics in modern America.

RBG. I wound have forced her to resign.

Think I’d have gone with saving my grandmother from cancer when my dad was 4, hopefully if they caught it early enough she would’ve lived and my grandfather wouldn’t become a twisted abusive man and my dad could’ve had a normal upbringing. Maybe then he would be reasonable enough to stay in contact with.

My late father. He passed away July 21, 2014.

Back in January that year, I came home from work, and he told me that he made some eggs and grits. But when he ate it, it was too hot, but his reflexes made him swallow it anyways. Which basically boiled his insides.. ☹️

He refused to let me call emergency services, hell he even told me that if I did so without his permission, he would shoot them, and yes he slept on a couch loaded with multiple guns under the couch cushions. He even threatened to kill me if I called emergency services without his permission.

5 months in, I realized that daddy wasn't gonna recover, as he was seeking cell phone signal the morning before I was about to head out to work. Daddy like never called anybody, so when I saw him seeking a good cell signal, I asked him if he wanted me to step out and call 911 myself.

He said, and I quote, "Hold the fuck on, I'm getting ready"

Needless to say, I missed work that day. I got him to the hospital, where he lived for another month or so, but passed away because he didn't tend to his health back in January when the situation happened.

I'd write out more about this, but it's too sad for me to think more on.

Damnit daddy, I coulda saved you, if you weren't so stubborn!

☹️😭💀

Aaron Swartz.

Martin Luther King maybe?

My dad. Fuck cancer.

My best buddy who feel asleep at the wheel 2km from his destination.
Could've been there with him to keep him awake 1 more minute. Or drive. Or maybe I'd have died with them.
I've stopped asking myself "what if", I'll never know, but I miss you buddy.

I know it's not really that important in the scheme of things but probably Chris Cornell which would hopefully also save Chester Bennington. Quite selfish of me but that's what first came to my mind.

No "famous" person. Two families that are friends of mine. Both have lost a child at ages 8 / 10 from accidents, and they could never really get over it and it has changed their lives so much.

Kurt Cobain

Have you watched the Stephen King movie about that?

I would travel back in time and prevent the deaths of all the other sperms in the load that became Justice John Roberts Jr. If only one of those other sperms got into that egg.

This court Jester that thinks that 12 years after civil rights and voting rights were extended to black people, that there was no racism to deal with anymore and has been trying to overturn them until he succeeded this time.

I'm reading Laura Franko's BROADWAY REVIVAL again. A Broadway actor and composer uses his brother's participation in THE SLINGSHOT, a time machine for historians, to go from 2077 to 1934 and prevent George Gershin from dying of a brain tumor. He brings 2077 drugs to do it.

https://www.amazon.com/Broadway-Revival-Laura-Frankos/dp/1732523924

I don't have a laudable goals, but if I could, I'd pump Jim Hensen full futuristic drugs so he didn't die. The world can always use more rainbows.

I'd show him a newspaper clip of the day of his assassination. I'd probably be looked at a little crazily and suspected of maybe being involved

In that time you would not simply be "looked at".

100% You would have been accused of being involved and then sentenced for life at least.

My mom's

Jesus'.

Is JFK not in the conversation?

Probably this guy. Hopefully prevent a lot of pointless bloodshed

Ernesto Guevara