The top item in today’s NRO Originals mailing is a link to the magazine’s obituary of JFK. It’s an editorial, so there’s no byline, but many readers will recognize the distinctive style of NR’s founder. The prose is classic Buckley–a good taste of how he wrote when he was in the daily editorial grind of news-driven magazine production.

One of the interesting bits of trivia surrounding JFK’s death is that two other great men died on the same day: C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley. Their passing was of course eclipsed by JFK’s. A number of years ago, Peter Kreeft wrote a book that imagines a conversation between these three as they meet in the afterlife. We recorded a podcast about it here.