John F. Kennedy was a notorious womanizer that was known to have had numerous affairs
during his lifetime.
Understandably, the majority of these affairs remain shrouded in secrecy.
Besides his affair with Marilyn Monroe, another one of John F. Kennedy’s more controversial
affairs may have possibly resulted in the death of the other party involved.
Join Facts Verse as we take a look at why some say JFK’s mistress Mary Pinchot Meyer
“had to die”.
Mary and John Met as Teenagers Mary Pinchot Meyer met John F. Kennedy at
a preparatory-school dance that the two were attending.
According to legend, Mary was attending the dance with another boy, and John ended up
stealing the young woman away.
Mary and John were both just teenagers at the time, but the meeting would be the beginning
of a lifelong friendship for the young woman that some say resulted in her death.
Mary Was Murdered Shortly After John Was A year after John F. Kennedy’s assassination,
Mary Pinchot Meyer would be murdered herself.
As with John’s death, the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer remains largely shrouded in
mystery.
In the case of Mary’s death, no one was ever convicted.
To this day, there are many who believe that the CIA killed Mary in an effort to cover
up any information that she may have been privy to as a result of her friendship, and
later romantic relationship, with John F. Kennedy.
Mary Pinchot Meyer was fatally shot in the head in October of 1964.
At the time, the socialite and former lover of John F. Kennedy was only 43 years old.
There were witnesses who claim to have heard screams at the time of the murder.
These witnesses then claimed to have seen an unknown man standing over Mary’s body.
Later, a man by the name of Ray Crump Jr. was arrested.
The man was soaking wet and claimed that he had fallen into the Potomac River.
Who Killed Mary Pinchot Meyer?
While the authorities believed that Ray Crump Jr. was the man responsible for the murder
of Mary Pinchot Meyer, there was no evidence that could pin the crime on him.
Ray had no weapon on him, and also had no motive.
All of the evidence that authorities could gather was circumstantial, and Ray Crump Jr.
ended up being acquitted for the crime of Mary’s murder during his trial after pleading
not guilty.
Following the acquittal of Ray Crump Jr., no authorities have ever made any official
movement in regards to the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer.
To this day, the murder remains unsolved.
There are certainly some that believe, or, at least, claim to believe, that Mary was
truly killed by Ray Crump Jr. and that the man got away with the crime as a result of
there being too little evidence.
However, there are many more who believe that Mary Pinchot Meyer was really killed by the
CIA.
Why Would the CIA Kill Mary?
Of course, those who think that Mary Pinchot Meyer was killed by the CIA believe as such
because they think that the woman knew too much as a result of her close friendship and
romantic relationship with John F. Kennedy.
The former started when the two were just teenagers at that aforementioned dance.
Following their meeting at the preparatory-school dance, Mary and John were lifelong friends
up until the time of John’s assassination.
However, at some point during this friendship, things turned into a full-blown romance.
It’s unclear exactly when things became romantically serious between Mary and John.
Perhaps their romance started all the way back at that teenage dance and never ended.
The only thing that’s clear is that the two had certainly become lovers by the time
of John’s death.
There is certainly some weight to the theory that the CIA may have been involved in Mary
Pinchot Meyer’s death.
Mary’s death occurred only a little over a week after the release of what has unofficially
come to be known as the Warren Commission.
For those that don’t know, the Warren Commission is the government’s official report on the
assassination of John F. Kennedy, and there are many who believe that the report doesn’t
hold up to much scrutiny.
Some believe that Mary Pinchot Meyer may have held information that could have contradicted
the Warren Commission, and perhaps she needed to be silenced in order for the fraudulent
report to have its intended effect.
The Case of James Jesus Angleton There’s no question that Mary Pinchot Meyer
was privy to a good deal of information that the average person was not.
As a result of her friendship and subsequent romantic relationship with John F. Kennedy,
Mary got to be a fly on the wall at the White House during much of his term of office.
There’s also the matter that the chief of counterintelligence for the CIA reportedly
broke into Mary’s artist’s studio only several hours after her death to reclaim her
diary.
When James Jesus Angleton broke into Mary Pinchot Meyer’s artist’s studio in an
effort to reclaim her diary, Mary’s brother-in-law caught him.
That brother-in-law was Ben Bradlee, and he went on to write about the incident in his
autobiography.
Released in the 1990s, this autobiography served as a revelation for those still seeking
answers about Mary’s unsolved murder.
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What Was in Mary Pinchot Meyer’s Diary?
When the chief of counterintelligence for the CIA, James Jesus Angleton was caught breaking
into the recently deceased Mary Pinchot Meyer’s artist’s studio in an effort to steal her
diary, he wasn’t successful in his mission.
Instead, it ended up being Ben Bradlee who found the diary.
Ben subsequently read through the diary and, according to him, the only major revelation
that was afforded to him from the reading was that Mary had been John F. Kennedy’s
lover.
According to James Jesus Angleton, he had wanted to reclaim Mary Pinchot Meyer’s diary
simply to cover up the fact that she had been involved in an extramarital affair with John
F. Kennedy towards the end of the latter’s life.
Though the diary made an effort to never mention John by name, it documented an affair that
Mary had been having with an unnamed and powerful politician.
It didn’t take much of an effort to figure out who the politician was, but covering up
this extramarital affair after John’s death seems like an unlikely motive for the murder
of Mary Pinchot Meyer given how well-known that recently deceased president’s penchant
for womanizing was even at the time.
Instead, if the CIA covered up their involvement in the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, it seems
more likely that they were covering it up for more esoteric reasons that remain completely
unknown.
After James Jesus Angleton claimed to Ben Bradlee that his intention for finding Mary
Pinchot Meyer’s diary was to cover up her affair with John F. Kennedy, Ben ended up
handing the diary over to him.
However, this wasn’t until after Ben had already read the diary for himself.
Later, Ben apparently found out that James had failed to destroy the diary, and had instead
preserved it’s contents for unknown reasons.
Following this, Ben allegedly managed to finagle the diary back from the chief of counterintelligence.
Once the diary was back in Ben’s possession, he had his wife burn it.
Other Clues Regarding Mary Pinchot Meyer If the diary of Mary Pinchot Meyer contained
any clues about her murder that Ben Bradlee may or may not have understood upon his cursory
reading, the world will never know now that the diary’s contents have been destroyed.
It’s certainly suspicious that James Jesus Angleton didn’t make good on his promise
to destroy the diary like he said, but there’s much that’s suspicious in this tangled narrative.
Mary Pinchot Meyer was the daughter of a wealthy socialite family, and she was largely John
F. Kennedy’s equal.
As compared to a majority of the famous politician’s other mistresses, Mary was someone who fit
in amongst his peers.
Following their initial meeting during their teenage years, Mary and John remained within
the same social sphere.
This is what allowed them to carry on their friendship, though there may have been more
going on between them early on.
Mary graduated from Vassar College in the 1940s and went on to marry a high-ranking
official in the CIA by the name of Cord Meyer.
Mary and Cord were neighbors with John and Jackie Kennedy while John was serving as a
senator.
As neighbors, Mary and John found themselves better friends than ever before.
It remains uncertain if Mary and John were romantically involved during these days or
if the pair’s extramarital affair didn’t start until John’s presidency.
The Deceitful Nature of John F. Kennedy In addition to the fact that they had become
neighbors, Mary and John’s friendship also increased when Mary’s sister married the
aforementioned Ben Bradlee.
Ben was an incredibly close friend of John F. Kennedy’s, though the fact that Ben had
no idea about John’s extramarital affair with Mary calls into question what else this
supposedly close friend didn’t know.
In his autobiography, Ben claimed that he was shocked at how deceitful John F. Kennedy
had been.
Mary, John, and LSD In addition to being John F. Kennedy’s lover,
Mary Pinchot Meyer also allegedly tried to be a positive influence on the president.
According to the late writer Timothy Leary, Mary had sought out advice from him on how
to best give the president a positive LSD experience.
Mary was allegedly fond of LSD and other mind-altering substances and believed that LSD may have
a positive political influence over her lifelong friend.
John had apparently reciprocated interest whenever Mary brought LSD up, and it’s likely
that Mary ended up giving the president his promised trip.
Mary hoped that getting John high on LSD could end world conflict by providing the politician
with some powerful revelation.
Perhaps this happened, and the revelation was too much.
Though Mary Pinchot Meyer’s murder remains unsolved, there are many who believe the CIA
killed her.
Now it’s time to hear from you: did you know that the late Timothy Leary claimed Mary
Pinchot Meyer got John F. Kennedy high on LSD, and there are some that believe that
the CIA is responsible for Mary’s unsolved murder?
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