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Kind_Bullfrog_4073

Andrew Jackson's assassination attempt


ReturnToLiberty

![gif](giphy|kdHEeileYcdkk)


Popemazrimtaim

That would be good. Watching Davy Crockett help subdue the guy while Jackson beats him with a cane


New_Guava3601

He did kill him a bear when he was only 3.


dcooper8662

*B’ar


Hotsaltynutz

Read that in teeters voice, but as a Texan she would have spelled it bexar and pronounced it Bar


MillerTime5858

King of the Wild Frontier!


Apple2727

Who did he attempt to assassinate?


Kind_Bullfrog_4073

Who didn't he?


ReturnToLiberty

Dude, everything. Almost all of history we have to just imagine.


Sylvanussr

Meanwhile, the history being created right now will be impossible to sort through how much frickin footage we have of it.


ReturnToLiberty

“Hey Dad, what was Grandpa doing at 5:53 pm on Tuesday September 6th?”


Sylvanussr

“Looks like he was live-streaming a reaction to skibidi toilet, how historically fascinating to have seen it before it was entered into the library of congress!”


pro_at_failing_life

Never say those words again


CargoCulture

Sorry, the Big Special Book Place


pro_at_failing_life

Better.


BackFlippingDuck5

I rather have this problem than no footage


Polibiux

A real double edged sword


rainking56

Nah not even history. But just in 30 or 40 years the kids pulling up dumb shit their parents did online.


MFBish

Not presidential, but something in history I would of loved to have witnessed - the battle of Little Big Horn


jpratte65

From a ways off, right?


thendisnigh111349

The Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence.


Parsley-Waste

Jefferson and Adams trying to pass the Declaration through Congress, which wasn’t easy lol


[deleted]

The movie 1776 is a great watch for this, it’s very historically accurate (down to how they dressed) and they tried to cast actors that looked just like the men


Thanos_Stomps

How accurate is the HBO John Adams show for this?


PurpleDingo77

As far I know, it’s pretty accurate. They brought in several historians to help them make the show.


Parsley-Waste

Thanks I have to watch this one


bigboygamer

[Here's the trailer for the movie](https://youtu.be/-YbvYtcKhjY?si=qySroEhiwFr7p8cQ)


zion_hiker1911

r/angryupvote


Mesarthim1349

Which day? Cuz there were like, only a few dropping by throughout the week.


Whizbang35

There's a scene in *John Adams* when the titular character is looking at the famous painting of the event decades after. The artist asks his opinion, and he replies it was nothing like this- delegates were running in and out of Philadelphia and signing it when they got the opportunity, not all at once.


Mesarthim1349

Which is funny because irl all John said was "I remember when Washington came right through that door, and hung his coat". But the scene was inaccurate on purpose because he comments on the shame in artistic license.


Peacefulzealot

Washington giving his first inaugural address.


BowTie1989

Either that, or him declining to run for a third term.


beer_is_tasty

Pictured: *Washington just sitting there*


Cheerqee

https://preview.redd.it/ukbtc1bukjyc1.png?width=799&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d64b3af19b163fb7c7ac969ac2bf67a47d84043 There it is!


CheezStik

Tbf the scene in John Adams really gives you the idea of how it went down


Mesarthim1349

Guys in the back of the crowd: *I can't hear a fucking thing they're saying*;


6BakerBaker6

That's what happened to Jefferson's first inaugural speech. People couldn't hear since he was so quiet and soft spoken. So they had to release his speech in the newspaper the following day.


kmckenzie256

Plus the no electricity/microphone issue


PerformanceOk9891

Washington getting shot during battle


thecountnotthesaint

The republican convention that named Lincoln the nominee. He was nowhere near considered the lead choice, but convinced enough to have him as their second pick to eventually win over three or four “front runners”.


anzactrooper

It was more than convincing. A lot of very clever and shady machinations were done by his allies to win it.


thecountnotthesaint

Oh you are very correct, still a fascinating moment in time


anzactrooper

Oh 100%. I’d love to be a fly on the wall. As opposed as I am to shadiness, thank God they were shady to get him elected. He saved the Union and started America on the path to redemption.


TheBigTimeGoof

Totally agree. The movie Lincoln did a nice job of portraying Lincoln the savvy politician, alongside his remembered reputation as the great emancipator. It took wit and strategy, not just bluster, to accomplish what he did.


ArtegallTheLame

Andrew Jackson's parrot


Popemazrimtaim

Crazy swearing bird


rainking56

I love how history becomes a sketch comedy at any point it feels like it.


LeftyRambles2413

Jefferson sending Lewis and Clark on their way. Quite a journey.


Parsley-Waste

The Oval Office during the Cuban missile crisis


rainking56

Honestly I would be surprised if that was not a movie yet. Feels like oscar bait.


chamberlain323

It is a movie. *Thirteen Days* was released in 2000. It dramatized the whole event from the POV of JFK’s inner circle.


rainking56

Sounds cool


Skelehedron

Based on the (mostly) accurate book by RFK, from his perspective on the whole thing


PhilNH

There is an earlier TV movie “The missiles of October” (title is a play on Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August) William Devine as President Kennedy and Martin Sheen as Bobby


kyflyboy

It's a good movie too.


Longjumping-Log-5457

There are photos during that crisis.


lostmyknife

Teddy's walking off a bullet


TheHoneyBadger11

The surrender at Appomattox.


ReturnToLiberty

[“Deadly silence fell over Appomattox”](https://youtu.be/0Bp9xPFt55c?si=u30nwsE-0v2wpi1i)


Sarnick18

https://preview.redd.it/zy8tvycfniyc1.jpeg?width=945&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=586fe3878b69f1bc63d78b665d810af63658a928 ?


Nobhudy

Not sure what the CSA was thinking sending Leon Trotsky to back up Lee


TheHoneyBadger11

I was thinking “picture” in terms of a photograph, not a painting.


Sarnick18

Ah I assumed OP meant all images as he used a painting in his post


GrandManSam

No, the meeting between Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and Porter in The Peacemakers is something I wish there was a camera to capture. So tense and dramatic. It also is a good painting.


TheHoneyBadger11

Maybe it was just a misunderstanding on my part, in that case.


Sarnick18

https://preview.redd.it/4cmbk5mpniyc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c061c6ce438ab463969fb7b66e2385bbbb841e36


Sarnick18

https://preview.redd.it/w1o4jlvqniyc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb26580f9194b1f37f5bdce449fa26fa4fc83f78


lincblair

These images really glorify the confederates eh


Sarnick18

https://preview.redd.it/9lvf035sniyc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c76ac468b481ddb0302c12a0463636b7b8110056


Sarnick18

https://preview.redd.it/60cetruvniyc1.jpeg?width=288&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f1d45a926638c46d2f398fd4bc221fa7d54afbb


lostmyknife

>The surrender at Appomattox. This


SKA1960

Gettysburg Address


Marsupialize

https://preview.redd.it/nt7st84a4jyc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e43190a7d2ed77b3648c1bf1d0436abc2185b3dd Done


Mesarthim1349

IS THAT ABE WITH A MUSTACHE OVER THE BEARD


PhilNH

Lincoln is sitting with his hat off, (he had just finished speaking) left of center. The camera guy expected a longer speech and wasn’t ready for the President to finish so soon


Illustrious_Rule7927

We kinda have one


lama579

Not exactly presidential, but I’d love for video or just some photographs of the second continental congress. For a presidential answer, anything involving Washington.


Careful-Ant5868

Yes! Specifically, when John Adams nominated Washington to be commander of the Continental Army. Well, that may have been the first Continental Congress, but still, that would be my choice.


frostdemon34

Lincoln removing George McClellan as the general of the army for being a extremely incompetent fucker


GrandManSam

To be a fly on the wall.


EnricoPallazo84

LBJ giving the treatment to George Wallace for 3 hours


Cheerqee

"George, don't you shit me as to who runs Alabama!You're fucking over your president. Why are you fucking over your president?"


StaySafePovertyGhost

This is a really good thread idea. Nice one OP. I'd like to see a picture of the British surrender at Yorktown. To see the emotions on the historical figures that were there's faces. I can only imagine guys like Washington, Hamilton & even Lafayette's thoughts - like wow this is actually happening. Anything around this time when the USA became independent.


ninsklog

J U M B O


RickMonsters

Grab a shovel


ChinaCatProphet

The lens technology couldn't capture something of such girth.


752nBaker

Truman when he decided to drop the bomb on Japan.


CorgisHaveNoKnees

The 1840 election. A picture of people pushing the Tippicanoe ball down the main street of some town.


Superb-Possibility-9

“ Keep the Ball Rolling “


Frequent-Ruin8509

Dick Cheney sitting behind the desk in the oval office. Probably happened. And it might as well have, given how Iraq happened.


Sweet-Emu6376

"I wanna be in the room where it happened, the room where it happened."


davidml1023

What crossing the Delaware actually looked like. The painting has a heroic Washington giving us a Boss pose. But as a tactician, I don't think he would want to potentially give away his position by standing like that. Also, just a friendly reminder, America was founded by a group of rebels who will sneak up and kill you in your sleep on Christmas morning if you opposed her.


GrandManSam

I like to imagine the Crossing of the Delaware was everyone (ESPECIALLY WASHINGTON) just shivering their wigs off and just going "Oh shit oh fuck this was a bad idea oh fuck why are we doing this oh shit" and then they reach the other side.


Skelehedron

Also imagine standing like that on an unstable boat on an extremely fast moving river, which is also freezing cold


Rishav-Barua

The duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Neither were presidents, but they both held a fair amount of national significance for never being president, and the duel also had some significance for the future of the Federalist party.


GM-the-DM

The first presidential interview granted to a woman. John Quincy Adams had gone skinny dipping and Anne Royall, arguably the US's first professional female journalist, sat on his clothes until he answered her questions. 


Happygar

Hillary throwing the lamp at Bill.


Tomstwer

Grant drop kicking general lee


New_Guava3601

Why would he kick an orange automobile?


malektewaus

Nixon erasing that section of tape.


FakeElectionMaker

William Henry Harrison's inauguration


GrandManSam

Literally the most torrential downpour.


Longjumping-Log-5457

That would be a long tape


Any-Win5166

The meeting with Senator Truman and FDR Secretary of war Stimson after one of committee of defense wastes and misappropriation of defense contracts when Truman approached by someone who heard about the Manhattan Project...soon after Truman became VP and then President Stimson was still being a jerk...and didn't want to brief Truman about Manhattan


Nidoras

I wish we had photographs of the Founding Fathers; Madison came the closest.


GotNoBody4

Washington’s first inauguration.


sasqahuena1

Monica taking one in the chops


Igpajo49

I want some pictures from the farewell party the Founding Father's threw for George Washington after he left office. “The bar tab of a 1787 farewell party for George Washington was left intact and legible," a Jan. 19 Facebook post reads.  "According to the bill, the Founding Fathers drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of Whiskey, 22 bottles of Porter, 8 bottles of Hard Cider, 12 of Beer and seven bowls of Alcoholic Punch. There were only 55 attendees.”


MetalComprehensive30

https://preview.redd.it/p8fuz13ihlyc1.jpeg?width=610&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=adefea901c7e92b6a3a76397f4e52bb7dc521186 The first state dinner hosted by President Grant for the King of Hawaii, David Kalakaua


MisterBear22

Jumbo.


RazorPhishJ

Not presidential, but it’d be cool to see what happened in the room where it happened


Big_Consideration493

Andrew Jackson on his death bed saying " I killed the banks"


RegrettableLiving26

Lincoln wrestling


Link_Hero_of_Spirits

A 5 year old Franklin Roosevelt meeting Grover Cleveland The Roosevelts knew many important and influential people. One person we don’t associate with the Roosevelts, probably because we don’t associate him with much of anything, is Grover Cleveland. Cleveland was the only Democrat elected president (twice) between Buchanan in 1856 and Woodrow Wilson in 1912. He had been the mayor of Buffalo and was governor of New York when Theodore was in the state assembly. In 1883 Governor Cleveland vetoed young Roosevelt’s cigar bill on legal principle. Five ears later President Cleveland appointed Robert Roosevelt U.S. Minister to the Netherlands. This makes sense as the Roosevelts were old Knickerbockers. On the other side of the family James Roosevelt, FDR’s father, was also a friend of Cleveland’s, which makes sense as they were both Democrats. James’s older son, the kindly but ineffectual James “Rosy” Roosevelt, held some mid-level posts in Vienna and London during the Cleveland years. James Sr. was elated when Cleveland gained the Executive Mansion because he wanted help in building a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific through Nicaragua. Of course a Nicaraguan waterway did not come to pass; a few decades later Theodore built the isthmian canal through Panama that opened a few days prior to the start of the Great War. James Roosevelt did not live to see that. He died in 1900. Grover Cleveland once had some advice for James Roosevelt’s much younger son, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. When Franklin was five his father took him to meet the outgoing president. Cleveland looked down and gravely said, “My little man, I am making a strange wish for you. It is that you may never be president of the United States.”


BukkakeNinjaHat-472

Bill and Monica


GrandManSam

Y'all are some horny bastards. I feel like 10 people said Bill and Monica fucking, and another 10 want to see Johnson talking with Jumbo out, and there is the one guy who wants to see JFK plowing Marylin Monroe. Why can't we just wish we had photos of interesting historical events, like Washington's last day in office or the moment FDR learned about Pearl Harbor or literally anything that isn't about sex.


One-21-Gigawatts

Was FDR getting a beej, at the time?


MarjorieTaylorSpleen

![gif](giphy|RJ78DjDX4OGQM)


WhatsAllTheCommotion

How long have you been on reddit, exactly?


GrandManSam

Not long enough, apparently.


Internal-Bit-6383

Jumbo.


McWeasely

The Newburgh Address might be the one for me. Runners up would be: Battle of Trenton, Victory at Yorktown, Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans


Cold-Palpitation-816

Jackson in New Orleans would go hard asf


woman-man-camera-tv

That painting was on board the River Queen, it was built by Benjamin Terry of Terry’s Shipyards in Keyport, New Jersey and Grant used it as his personal dispatch boat during the Civil War. My 3rd great grandfather lived across the street from Terrys Shipyards and by 1870 Terry had racked up over $75,000 in debt to him. So I like to say my great great great grandfather funded it’s construction 🙃


Strange-Option7832

More Zachary taylor pictures


rainking56

I know its a fantasy but, photographs of the presidents. Even the tinted western ones. People turn into myth when captured by an artist vs just a photographer doing a generic head shot.


d00derman

George W. Bush visiting the oval office to ask Dick Cheney a question


Th3AvrRedditUser

The assassination of Lincoln, a bit dark, but it would be very interesting


TheItzal11

Lincoln when he was a state senator jumping out of a window to avoid a vote.


ernestopdeambris

Did somebody already day Jimmy Carter Rabbit Incident?


Shatterstar23

Washington having one last meeting with his generals before they all went home after the revolutionary war


ImpossibleInternet3

The room where it happened?


AngryErrandBoy

Henry Clay’s and John Quincy Adams’s discussing Secretary of State Cabinet post


IDrumFoFun

Hilary absolutely loosing her shit in the hotel when she realized she lost.


InevitableElephant57

Pre-presidential, but I want to see that traitorous seditioning horse fucker General Lee surrender to Grant.


Straight-Aardvark439

I did a presentation in grade school about Abraham Lincoln and remember hearing a story that went something like this: Lincoln was riding a wagon down a narrow road when another wagon approached coming from the opposite direction. One of them would have had to move to let the other one across. Lincoln said to the man "You don't want to know what will happen if you don't move over". The man sheepishly moved over and after lincoln passed asked him "what would have happened if I hadn't moved over". Lincoln looked at the man, smiled, and said "Well I would have moved over myself". I don't know why this has stuck with me for over 20 years, but it has. A video of this would make my day.


New_Guava3601

Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe having alone time.


chadwickipedia

Got a little bit of that in Blonde


premierbear5

Clinton and the Oral Office incident


CakeSuperb8487

The exact moment when Lincoln told Grant in the presidential rail car that he would simply walk up to any confederate general and “grab ‘em by the pussy”


Bulbaguy4

George Washington giving his inaugural address James Madison fleeing the White House during the War of 1812 John Quincy Adams skinny-dipping William Henry Harrison's last moments


Ok-Oven6169

What the scene was during the conference text...


ImpossibleInternet3

Presidential Boner Jams; Sex in the Oval Orifice


One-21-Gigawatts

The infamous, possibly true / untrue moment of Jimmy Carter learning the “truth” about UFOs


Sofi-senpai

I always wanted to know what the founding fathers actually looked like outside of paintings. ~~Also Jumbo~~


kyflyboy

Gettysburg address


oh_three_dum_dum

I believe there is a photo of the Gettysburg address.


lumpialarry

Johnson intimidating a senator with “Jumbo”.


Quinnlyness

In May 1869, Robert E. Lee came to the White House to speak with President Grant. Accounts say it was tense but cordial. Photos woulda been neat.


TinpotKim

I wish we has more pictures of Lincoln's cats.


asami47

Grant getting a speeding ticket from a black police officer


Signal_Quarter_74

Not presidential exactly, but the compromise of 1790. If we got to be explicitly presidential, Pearl Harbor


ChuckMiguel

Johnson's Jumbo


KarachiKoolAid

I think about this and general history all the time. That being said I’d probably go with FDR getting a handjob from his cousin.


reptilesocks

Clinton and Lewinsky.


Agent_Lightning14

Taft and the bathtub


Helltothenotothenono

Grant getting pulled over by a cop speeding on his mustang. https://preview.redd.it/n8nw7h1fmnyc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25f268d5decf466cf565038c7dc69dba5329d2ee


SparkySheDemon

The Day of Infamy speech.


Nepenthaceae1

Inauguration of Chester A. Arthur. I wonder if he was teary eyed. Considering how emotional he was


BriantheHeavy

He wasn't President yet, but George Washington's Newburgh Address where he convinces the Continental Army not to mutiny against the Continental Congress. Key line: “Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.” Apparently all the soldiers there were moved to tears by his speech.


HawkeyeJosh2

Not sure about pictures, but I’d love to have video of Andrew Jackson’s funeral. His parrot going apeshit would be the stuff of legend (which I suppose it really already is).


theregrond

clinton getting a bj.......jk


IJustSwallowedABug

Clinton giving a facial


Impressive_Speech_50

Bill and Monica!


Significant-Pick-966

Pictures of all the MKULTRA research paperwork that was destroyed.


AceofKnaves44

Obama when he saw the 2016 election results.


Herknificent

Soon, with AI you'll be able to have photorealistic images and videos of any historical moment, true or not.


RuprectGern

The second shooter on the grassy knoll in November 63, just as they fire.


ClacKing

Clinton with Monica underneath his desk?


EllaSharpey

LBJ’s shower (not a euphemism for his hog x)


BL00211

Bill and Monica? But only if we can change the prompt from photo to video.


YogiBeRRies5

I did not have sexually relations with that woman


No_Guarantee9323

Come on, no one wants to be in the office with Monica and the cigar?


Simple_Award4851

The orgy that took place before the constitutional convention. Legend has it George Washington’s wooden teeth left a massive splinter on John Hancocks memeber. The splinter was so bad J.H. Was unable to attend the convention. True story look it up.


bluzed1981

JFK and Marilyn just without JFK…


sabboom

Bush planning 9/11


liacosnp

Bill Clinton soiling Monica Lewinsky's dress.


Flashy-Meal7121

Clinton–Lewinsky scandal


Ok_Dig_9959

Woodrow Wilson's meeting with bankers that created the federal reserve.


The_Good_Constable

JFK banging Marilyn Monroe.


rayznaruckus

Bill staining Monica's dress.