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Post by mrcoke on Nov 22, 2024 9:24:54 GMT
Was there ever a day like 22nd November 1963?
US President John F Kennedy was assassinated. Possibly the biggest shocking event the world has known.
Writer Aldous Huxley also died, as did C S Lewis.
Rarely can there have been a day when the world lost three such influential men.
Kennedy took the world to the brink of total destruction over stopping Soviet missiles being sited in Cuba, initiated the largest growth of the world economy and the American space program, created the Peace Corps, and supported human rights. He was a Roman Catholic and held a humanist philosophy.
Huxley was also essentially a humanist. He was an agnostic and embraced spiritualism.
C S Lewis had been an atheist but was saved and became an outspoken believer in Jesus.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Nov 22, 2024 10:33:25 GMT
Was there ever a day like 22nd November 1963? US President John F Kennedy was assassinated. Possibly the biggest shocking event the world has known. Writer Aldous Huxley also died, as did C S Lewis. Rarely can there have been a day when the world lost three such influential men. Kennedy took the world to the brink of total destruction over stopping Soviet missiles being sited in Cuba, initiated the largest growth of the world economy and the American space program, created the Peace Corps, and supported human rights. He was a Roman Catholic and held a humanist philosophy. Huxley was also essentially a humanist. He was an agnostic and embraced spiritualism. C S Lewis had been an atheist but was saved and became an outspoken believer in Jesus. It’s said that John Kennedy attended a political meeting in Meir. (From a Mervyn Edwards article)- ‘The Broadway cinema in Meir opened in 1936 and played host to a future president of the United States. The young John F Kennedy, then a young officer in the US navy, was invited to the cinema in 1945 by his friend Hugh Fraser (MP for Stone as Meir was part of that constituency), who held an election meeting there. Kennedy took notes throughout what was apparently a boisterous meeting’ I believe JFK invited Fraser to his presidential inauguration in 1960. Lots of apocryphal tales circulated for years about a young JFK drinking in Meir too. |
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Post by riverman on Nov 22, 2024 11:35:35 GMT
C S Lewis...splitter!😁
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Post by mrcoke on Nov 22, 2024 22:27:23 GMT
Interesting comment. How would you describe Jonathan Aitken? |
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