On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> <<Hey, in Red Dwarf it was JFK himself on the grassy knoll. Top that'un! :-)>>
>
> That's pretty hard to top! :)
>
> It reminded me of a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode where JFK is rescued by a
>time traveler and taken to the future. Except the world where he survives the
>assassination is pretty crappy and there's about to be a nuclear war with the USSR.
>So to save the world, JFK voluntarily goes back in time to Dallas to be assassinated
>after all.
Red Dwarf's episode is along the same lines, except Lister & Co. screw up
history by ....
uh, SPOILER, y'all -- Boo!
...time-travelling into the book depository and knocking Oswald out the
window on accident. They can't really time travel again to stop
themselves for the usual space-time continuum paradox malarky, so they nab
JFK instead and convince him that the world will be a better place if he
shoots himself in order to finish Oswald's job. They have to nab him from
the back of a paddy-wagon because in the universe where he doesn't die, he
gets impeached and thrown in jail for messing with the mafia and with too
many babes.
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
