November 22, 2004

Three Deaths on 11/22/63

In the Agora: The Deaths of '63

Trivia Question.

What two other famous people died on Nov 22, 1963, the date of Kennedy's Assassination?

I didn't know it either before reading the linked page, but apparently C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley, along with JFK, died on that fateful November day.

I also found out this weekend that Dr. Strangelove, which debuted that winter, had contextual changes to the movie in light of the asssassination--the line about the personnel kit and "a pretty good time in Vegas" on the plane originally was a "pretty good time in Dallas".

And, there was apparently a pratfall of the President, whereupon one of the Generals comments. "Our young president has fallen". That scene, understandably, was snipped.

Posted by Jvstin at November 22, 2004 1:21 PM