Not such a happy birthday
Dec 15, 2021
3 minutes
On 22nd November 1963, the unthinkable happened. The president of the United States of America, John F Kennedy, was shot in Texas. An hour earlier, in Oxford, the author C S Lewis had died. Later that day, in California, Aldous Huxley also died.
‘I didn’t think much about the timing,’ said Lewis’s stepson Douglas Gresham. When a press release was issued reporting Lewis’s death, only two journalists responded. The death of the creator of
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