Justin Taylor points out:
C. S. Lewis—one week shy of his 65th birthday—collapsed and died at 5:30 PM (GMT) at his residence at The Kilns, outside Oxford, England.
Two hours later, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX, pronounced dead at 1:21 PM (CST). He was only 46 years old.
Exactly six hours later, Aldous Huxley, the English writer and author of Brave New World, died at 5:21 PM (PST) in Los Angeles. He was 69.
The philosophical theologian Peter Kreeft wrote a book that imagines a dialogue between these three men in which they each represent their distinct worldviews shortly after their deaths. It’s been years since I read it – – and Kreeft is very intellectual – – but, I remember that it was highly interesting.
