Time Travel

[Kasreyn]

What if JFK was killed directly because of the actions of someone who went back in time to try to STOP the assassination? I.e., he tried to change history and wound up realizing that if not for his actions, history wouldn't have worked out that way in the first place.

It sure would give a neat explanation for the "magic bullet". =P

In reply to an earlier poster: I don't think some "power" would "stop" you from killing your grandfather; I stated things unclearly. What I meant to say was, *even before* you go back in time, your exploits in the past are already part of history. When you go back in time, you fulfill your role in history, which is how it originally happened. The past cannot be changed, not because it resists intervention, but because time is made out of whole cloth and any "changes" you try to make are already part of the picture before you even decide to make them.

Now, if someone went back in time to *ensure* JFK's assassination, that might make sense, and he might even have been the shooter (one of the shooters? let's not get into conspiracy theory though).

-Kasreyn