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On a perfect October day in 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer—mistress of John Kennedy, friend of Jackie Kennedy and ex-wife of a top CIA man, Cord Meyer—was murdered in the rarefied Washington...
- Who Was Mary Pinchot Meyer?
- Mary Pinchot Meyer and JFK
- The Murder
- The Enduring Mystery
Most women in 1960s Georgetown were more Jackie than Marilyn: white-gloved, tea-drinking, Pall Mall-smoking housewives whose Mad Menera coifs could always be seen at a PTA meeting. Mary Pinchot Meyer existed outside of those appearances and expectations. An artist, she regularly carried a pouch of pot and acid with her, never ceasing to inspire fas...
The story of JFK’s infidelities didn’t start with Mary Pinchot Meyer, but it may have ended with her — if only because he was assassinated in November of 1963, about a year before Meyer would be killed. Shortly before his assassination, John F. Kennedy penned a letter to her imploring her to visit him. “I know it is unwise, irrational, and that you...
On October 12, 1964, just two days shy of her 44th birthday, Mary Pinchot Meyer finished a painting in her studio at around noon. In the safe confines of her studio, she would often work, read, or pet her cat, which had just given birth to yet another litter of kittens, their little mewls carrying up into the rafters of her studio as she worked. Sh...
Ray Crump Jr. was the only suspect, and many who believe that the government may have taken Mary Pinchot Meyer out suggest that he was the perfect patsy. Crump had a violent criminal record. He was simply a black man in a country rife with racial tension. This was 1964 — racial segregation had only been officially abolished by the Civil Rights Actl...
- Abby Norman
The Death of Mary Pinchot Meyer; Photograph of Mary Pinchot Meyer (far right) with John F. Kennedy, taken about 1963; Photograph of Mary Pinchot Meyer's body being examined by police at the spot where she was murdered, October 1964
Sep 25, 2017 · One year later, on Oct. 12, 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer was shot dead while taking an afternoon walk on a Georgetown towpath in Washington, D.C., at age 43. Nearly fifty three years later, her...
- Liz Mcneil
May 25, 2020 · On a brisk autumn day in October 1964, Washington D.C. socialite and painter Mary Pinchot Meyer was out for an afternoon stroll on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath in Georgetown, a route...
- Leena Kim
Sep 25, 2017 · One year later, on Oct. 12, 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer was shot dead while taking an afternoon walk on a Georgetown towpath in Washington, D.C., at age 43. Nearly fifty three years later, her...
Feb 25, 2020 · An undated photo of Mary Pinchot Meyer, the socialite and former mistress to J.F.K. whose 1964 murder remains a mystery. Associated Press. By Michael Callahan. Published Feb. 25, 2020...
