Interview any 3 deceased people of your choosing?

Memory Of 98

After doing a quick search, the question has been asked to some extent before but not quite like this.

In the hope of rousing some very interesting debate, I pose the question: If you had the chance to go back in time and interview three deceased historical figures, which 3 people would you choose?


I would have to say Napoleon Bonaparte, first.
I would love to ask why he decided to invade Egypt, when it would have been highly beneficial to send a second invasion force to Ireland.

Secondly, Robert Emmett.
From an early age I was greatly impressed by the exploits and cunning of Emmett.

Third, Joan of Arc.
I wouldn't even know where to start during an interview, so much to learn from such a remarkable figure.

So, does anyone have any interesting suggestions?

Edit: translator will be supplied :pac:

SafeSurfer

Memory Of 98 wrote: »

After doing a quick search, the question has been asked to some extent before but not quite like this.

In the hope of rousing some very interesting debate, I pose the question: If you had the chance to go back in time and interview three deceased historical figures, which 3 people would you choose?


I would have to say Napoleon Bonaparte, first.
I would love to ask why he decided to invade Egypt, when it would have been highly beneficial to send a second invasion force to Ireland.

Secondly, Robert Emmett.
From an early age I was greatly impressed by the exploits and cunning of Emmett.

Third, Joan of Arc.
I wouldn't even know where to start during an interview, so much to learn from such a remarkable figure.

So, does anyone have any interesting suggestions?

Will a translator be supplied?

rgmmg

Seals 1 and 2 from last night's beheading, with the original Flipper to interpret for me

Mickey Dazzler

I would like to interview Hitler three times.

Oranage2

Maddie McCann - Find out the truth!

al28283

Memory Of 98 wrote: »

Third, Joan of Arc.
I wouldn't even know where to start during an interview, so much to learn from such a remarkable figure.

I heard she was pretty hot

Memory Of 98

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Will a translator be supplied?

Goes without saying. But I will edit it now anyway.

Scioch

Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx.

Rasheed

John F Kennedy because he was a brilliant speaker, a good president and a pure pup, I'd love to ask him about all his escapades!

Queen Victoria because she was an absolutely ball breaker! She helped mould the UK into one of the super powers of the worldAnd I'm fascinated with royals.

Micheal Collins to know what does he think of the way the country is ran now and because he was a fine thing in his day!

im invisible

Vald the Impaler

Biggins

1. Micheal Collins - but not mention the future. I suspect that would break his heart! To find out what he really thought about the man that sold him out!

2. Lee Harvey Oswald. To find out what he meant "I'm just a patsy!" before he was shot (silenced!) to death by Jack Ruby.

3. Marilyn Monroe - To find out if she was murdered just before she was due (days later) to release a statement/book detailing her affairs with not just one Kennedy but two of them, at around the same time!

Rothko

Jimi Hendrix
Mozart
JFK

shopaholic01

Biggins wrote: »

Marilyn Monroe - To find out if she was murdered just before she was due (days later) to release a statement/book detailing her affairs with not just one Kennedy but two of them, at around the same time!

I'd pick Marilyn, JFK and RFK.

Get the full story from all angles. I imagine some of the details would make your toes curl;)

Killer Wench

The first victim of Jack the Ripper

John Tyler - primarily to ask if he would have still turned traitor if he had known the South would lose

the Chief or Speaker of the first Indigenous community to encounter the Spaniards/Italians in America

Lyaiera

Jesus
Emily Dickinson
Dunno about the third.

efb

Harvey Milk- see what's he makes of things
Robert Kennedy- was it all worth it
Oscar Wilde- for the lolz

Hannibal

Ché Guevara - one of the great political thinkers of the 20th century
Michael Collins - to find out why he sold Ireland out
Jesus - to see of he truly was the son of God

Notorious97

Micheal Collins - Irelands greatest leader in my opinion, ive read as much of his writings as i can find and ive a tonne of things id love to know

Biggie - lol just a massive fan as my name suggests, not hugely relevent to most boardsies but its my choice!

James Connoly - ask him what he thinks of labour these days

dj jarvis

1 spike milligan
2 george carlin
3 rosa parks

first 2 for the laughs that would ensue and rosa because she was fearless in her actions - no big crowd to back her up - little woman on her own against american apartheid - truly class - we could do with the like of her now

but f2uk me the first 2 would be so funny your stomach would explode :-)

twinytwo

Michael Collins
Adolf Hitler
Albert Eienstein

Richard Hillman

Hitler
Bin Laden
Gaddafi

Chuck Stone

Skippy
Lassie
Flipper

mattjack

Princess Diana, to see if Harry was Charlies sprog ..

Jack Ruby

Phil Lynnot.

af_thefragile

Albert Einstein

I'ld say interviewing him alone would be more than interviewing 3 people!

TheStook

Jim Morrison
Kurt Cobain
Friedrich Nietzche

flutterflye

Plato,
Freddie Murcury,
Either Kurt Cobain so I can allure him with my charms, or my mother.
I think my mother would win actually.
Or maybe River Phoenix - he was hot too.
I don't know.

Latchy

1 JFK - Why on the morning of your death ,after saying to your SS agents quote '' it only takes somebody to get on top of a building with high powered rifle to kill the president '' did you not up the ante with your security on the way into Dallas ?

2 Hitler - what the fcuk were you playing at back then ?

3 John Lennon - Why didn't ya have a bodyguard with ya that night man ? ...it's not like you couldn't afford one .

twinytwo

Dotsey wrote: »

Ché Guevara - one of the great political thinkers of the 20th century
Michael Collins - to find out why he sold Ireland out
Jesus - to see of he truly was the son of God

everytime i see stuff along these lines i laugh.... Kindly educate yourself on correct irish history. Do you even know what happened leading up to and during the signing of the treaty????....

Latchy

Dotsey
Michael Collins - to find out why he sold Ireland out

The British gave Collins only so many hrs to make his mind up ,26 counties or nothing ? A trip back over to Ireland to discuss it with his goverment or put it to the people wasn't on the cards so he took the 26 but wasn't happy with it ...to say the least .

ManOnFire

Kurt Cobain
George Best just for the stories
and John Gotti

RobbingBandit

Herodotus. Find out where he came up with the crazier stuff he wrote about.
Abe Lincoln. Find out if he really did hunt Vampires.
William Shakespeare. I would ask him if he really did write all his poems and plays.

Big Nasty

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison

BUBBLE WRAP

1) Colin McRea - Id ask him whats his favorite car. I met him once(for a few min), It was a dream come true.

2) 2pac - Id ask him who he looked up to as a kid.

3) Joey Dunlop - Id ask him what was his favorite motorbike.

peterk675

1) Albert Einstein would surely have to be there

2)JFK - There's so many questions you could ask ..

3) D.B cooper id love to know the full story and what did really happen to the man.

Where To

Doesn't matter who you interview they aren't going to reply.

Being dead and all . . . . .

cranks

Forget Che Guevara, Kurt Kobain. Famous people and such like would come very far down my list. I'd want to interview those special to me. Assuming interview a dead one means 'directing a chat with' I'd run with my own.

I'd interview:
My granddad (mother's side).
My great aunt Rose.
My brother.

For me, fascinating; for the rest of you .......meh.

Memory Of 98

I am surprised that Che Guevara has only been listed once.

twinytwo

Latchy wrote: »

The British gave Collins only so many hrs to make his mind up ,26 counties or nothing ? A trip back over to Ireland to discuss it with his goverment or put it to the people wasn't on the cards so he took the 26 but wasn't happy with it ...to say the least .

thats is also incorrect.

SafeSurfer

twinytwo wrote: »

thats is also incorrect.

Yes Lloyd George and his 2 letters ultimatum. One ready to be delivered by warship waiting at Holyhead to resume hostilities in Ireland

The Welsh Wizard just could not help himself when it came to theatrics.

Why would the British army in Ireland have to be communicated with by a message carried onboard a ship when telegrams and indeed telephones were available?

WatchWolf

I'd love to meet Ernest Hemingway to see if he really was a great fighter!

I think it would be interesting to talk to William Shakespeare to learn more about his life (which little is known about), inspiration for his plays, etc.

I'd love to get plastered with F Scott Fitzgerald, apparently he was quite the drinker!

Most of those are pretty boring... Would I be able to go back in time to the 1930s, interview an up and coming Hitler, and then kill him? But then when I came back to future (wink) the world would probably be ruled by alien giraffe-spiders.

Hm...

I'll get back to you...

Toby Take a Bow

Number one has to be Hitler. See if decades of rotting has changed his mind on some of his ideas.

Number two would be Caesar. Get a blow-by-blow (bad choice of words) account of his last day.

Number three would be Jesus, I suppose. Ask him what he thinks of everything that has followed in his name.

The_Thing

Vlad the Impaler

Ned Kelly

Yuri Gagarin

Latchy

twinytwo wrote: »

thats is also incorrect.

No it's not .

After the tedious Treaty discussions, Lloyd George and his British team offered Ireland Free State status coupled with an oath of allegiance. Collins knew this was not what he was sent for, but on December 5, an ultimatum was issued. Lloyd George gave the Irish side until 10 p.m. that night to accept or reject the terms. Failure to do this would result in "an immediate and terrible war." The Anglo-Irish Treaty, the first ever treaty between England and Ireland, was signed by both sides around 2 a.m. on December 6, 1921. Collins was both disappointed and exhausted. Later he was to challenge the notion that he signed the Treaty under duress:

http://sarasmichaelcollinssite.com/the_anglo-irish_treaty

jakobgallagher

Baruch Spinoza

George Orwell

Albert Einstein

To be honest really don't think any of them would have any interest in talking to me.

General General

Pierre de Fermat - tell me the fu.cking proof, ya pri.ck.

Bruce Lee - was you assassassin-, assinated, were you killed by some Kung Fu Hitman?

Steve Jobs - God runs Debian, doesn't he?

Biggins

Dotsey wrote: »

Michael Collins - to find out why he sold Ireland out

Seriously, some people need to pick up a detailed history book and study it.

The short version:

Firstly, Dev made the unprecedented move to expose Collins to the British.
Up till then, all they had in regards his actual I.D., was a badly taken photo of him and little else.

Collins himself protested his appointment as envoy plenipotentiary, as he was not a statesman and his revelation to the British (he had previously kept his public presence to a minimum) would reduce his effectiveness as a guerilla leader should hostilities resume.

LINK

Secondly, Dev saw Collins as a possible challenger to his authority and/or ideas. He needed this sorted, Collins reduced then in public stature if possible.

Thirdly, its greatly stated in many accounts of the times that Dev knew in advance that he was not going to get the full 32 counties.
He however didn't want to be seen as the fall guy. He ordered Collins to go instead, both exposing him the the British in light of the world and cameras - and exposed him to take the fall for the reduced quick fired settlement that was forced upon him.

Some historians believe de Valera did not go to London because he knew that Ireland would not get the treaty that she wished for and the people that signed it would be the ones to blame. Since he wanted to remain blameless, so he sent others in his place. de Valera was a very smart man and he knew that it was going to be impossible for Ireland to become a Republic or even united because in the end it would only be a compromise.

LINK

We all know how the negotiations eventually ended up.

Even after Collins death, the wrath of Dev didn't stop.
To quote Tim Pat Coogan - a world recognised authority on Irish history (Irish Times Monday Jan 31st 2005).
(Below he refers to a foundation that was sought in Collins name)

Behind de Valera's refusal to support the foundation there also lie several other examples of mean-spiritedness, such as the squabbling for years over the attendance of the Army at Bealnablath, or the air-brushing of mention of Collins out of the official Department of foreign Affairs publication. Facts About Ireland. In particular, there is the sorry saga of the Collins memorial in Glasnevin cemetery.

It is a matter of record that for years Johnny Collins, a civil servant, and thus very much at de Valera's mercy, strove unsuccessfully to have a fitting memorial erected over his brother, who, as the first Com-mander-in-Chief of the Irish Army, lay in a military grave. Again McGrath had offered to fund this, but the family insisted on paying for the memorial themselves. Finally, de Valera called Johnny in and stipulated that the cost of the memorial should not exceed 371.01€ and it should be in limestone, not marble. He prescribed a formula of words he wanted used on the cross and ordered that there be no English on the front of it. The cemetery records show, that, on July 31st, 1939, a few weeks before the world went to war, Taoiseach de Valera took time out to sign personally the certificate of authorisation for the design and erection of the memorial cross over his old adversary.

What the certification does not show is the fact that de Valera forbade Johnny to allow attendance at the dedication ceremony, either by the press, the public, or by any member of the Collins family apart from Johnny himself. Only the officiating priest and an altar boy were permitted to be present. Had an out-raged off-duty gravedigger, who tended Collins's grave, not accidentally come across the melancholy little ceremony and hailed a passing tourist with a camera, there would have been no pictorial record of Johnny standing alone, apart from the gravedigger, at his famous brother's graveside. It was published, for the first time, in my biography of Collins.

LINK

The above is gone into further detail in a number of Coogan's heavy detail filled books - besides many others.

To quote another section:

The 1916 the 50th anniversary celebrations at the GPO were attended by a distinguished Irish-American delegation, including Congressman John Fogarty of Rhode Island, a particular favourite of de Valera's because of Fogarty's record in sponsoring House resolutions advocating Irish unity. Foley was so close to Fogarty and his three brothers, that he said he was described as "the fifth Fogarty". Foley told me that, at a convivial reception in Aras an Uachtarain after the GPO events, Fogarty took advantage of his standing with de Valera to inquire: "Mr President, what's the story of your involvement in the death of Michael Collins?" De Valera replied: "I can't say a thing John but - that fellow had it coming to him."

Both quotes above goes to possibly show a character side of Dev that he tried to keep hidden, but let lose at times!

I'm digressing however.
Its historically generally recorded that it was no real fault of Collins that we were left with 26 counties.
A proverbial gun was put to his head - one that the coward Dev knew would be coming, didn't want to face himself - so he sent a fallguy instead over to England in his wake.
...And by chance, killing two birds with one stone, gaining an opportunity to reduce the effect of Collins in a number of ways!

I finish up this side-issue with this:

...two things are certain: There has never been a man in Irish history to do more in a short amount of time than Michael Collins and die believing in his cause. Second, Ireland today is still fighting; they are still divided and there seems to be no end, but one day when people are able to see past their differences and look back on one man whose dream was a free Ireland. A united Ireland then maybe they will stop and the country will become one just as Michael Collins once believed could happen.

LINK

Rest In Peace Michael Collins.

PizzamanIRL

1. Tupac
2. Hitler
3. Tupac again

Wattle

If all three were deceased that surely wouldn't make for a very good interview.

Doc Ruby

I gave up interviewing deceased people after watching that last episode of Fringe. Gave me an uncomfortableness, it did.

Bad Panda

Geronimo - the epitomy of the word 'warrior'. Wise too.

Tutankhamun - love to know exactly what was happening during his reign, ask him about his years as King and to find out about those opposed to him.

Jack the Ripper - obviously would need to know for sure who he was, but...would no doubt be interesting and chilling!

RaRaRasputin

1.Rasputin of course, a fascinating person!
2.Attila the Hun because so little is known about him and the Huns.
3.Vlad the Impaler, because modern politicians could learn a lot of good things from him (if we put the impaling etc aside)