June 11, 2020
About This Episode
The spread and severity of the coronavirus may be unlike anything seen in recent memory, but it was a little more than 100 years ago that another deadly pandemic swept across the globe. And while JFK was only a year old at the time of the pandemic, there’s another person whose papers are housed at the JFK Library who was alive to witness and record his thoughts throughout the pandemic - Ernest Hemingway. In this episode, we’ll talk to Hemingway scholar Susan Beegel to learn how the flu affected his family and loved ones while he was a young man overseas in World War I.
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What We Talked About
- View photos of Hemingway during World Wars I and II
- Watch a Kennedy Library Forum on Ernest Hemingway and World War I