In a letter written a month earlier than his assassination, then-President John F. Kennedy had a heartfelt message for one among his alleged mistresses who later met a mysterious finish. Mary Pinchot Meyer first met JFK when the 2 had been prep college college students however allegedly started an affair within the Nineteen Sixties. Pinchot Meyer and her husband, a CIA agent named Twine Meyer had been associates with JFK and Jackie Kennedy and even lived close to the couple in Washington D.C. A yr after the President’s loss of life, Pinchot Meyer was murdered whereas strolling in Georgetown.

A 2016 public sale resurfaced a 1963 letter allegedly written by JFK however by no means despatched to Pinchot Meyer. “Why don’t you permit suburbia for as soon as – come and see me – both right here – or on the Cape subsequent week or in Boston the nineteenth,” Kennedy allegedly wrote, per Individuals, within the four-page letter. “I do know it’s unwise, irrational, and that you could be hate it – however you might not – and I’ll adore it.” He continued: “You say that it’s good for me to not get what I would like. In spite of everything of those years – you must give me a extra loving reply than that. Why don’t you simply say sure,” signing the letter off with a easy ‘J.’ On November 22 of the identical yr the President was shot lifeless whereas on an official go to to Dallas, Texas.

On October 12, 1964, Pinchot Meyer was shot within the head whereas taking a day stroll, Individuals reviews. Her homicide stays unsolved. Nina Burleigh, who wrote a 1999 biography about Pinchot Meyer, says, “Passersby heard screams and a witness regarded over the wall and noticed a person standing close to her physique. The police got here and shortly arrested a Black male [Ray Crump Jr.] soaking moist who mentioned he fell into the Potomac whereas fishing. … No gun was ever discovered.” Crump plead not responsible and was acquitted at trial due to an absence of proof. “The idea is that she needed to die as a result of she knew an excessive amount of,” says Burleigh.

”Her homicide simply ten days after the Warren Fee report was launched makes lots of people suspicious that she needed to be silenced,” Burleigh notes just about the investigation into JFK’s assassination. She provides: “She lived in a world of secrets and techniques … the secrets and techniques of spies operating difficult worldwide plots, attempting to manage a harmful world on the daybreak of the nuclear age.”

Including to the suspicious nature of her loss of life is claims from Pinchot Meyer’s brother-in-law, Ben Bradlee, who claims he caught chief of CIA counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton breaking into Pinchot Meyer’s artist studio on the evening of her homicide to retrieve her diary. The diary allegedly contained references to her affair with the President with out explicitly utilizing his identify. Bradlee’s spouse, Pinchot Meyer’s sister, reportedly destroyed the diary quickly after.

Burleigh notes that JFK and Pinchot Meyer’s affair possible started someday between 1961 and 1962. “Her identify first seems on the White Home logs in October 1962,” she says. “She was by his aspect… She was usually signed in when Jackie was away…” It’s unclear whether or not Jackie was conscious of the alleged tryst.  “Possibly, no one is aware of,” says Burleigh. “She would typically seat them collectively. Both that meant she trusted her or she thought Mary was retaining Kennedy entertained in a great way.”

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