Indeed, some members of the Washington intelligence community seemed to know about Meyers death before the body was even identified that evening, writes Peter Janney, the son of a CIA officer and author of an admiring book on Meyer called Marys Mosaic. There was a presidential election coming, Johnson (who had recently signed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) versus Goldwater (the warmonger, according to the 1964 narrative). These witnesses then claimed to have seen an unknown man standing over Mary's body. She bewitched the blue-blooded men. Now, two authors offer competing fictional versions of the lost journal, exploring, with mixed results, Meyers fervid affair with the president, her wily misadventures among the Capitol cognoscenti and the snooping disposition that may have gotten her killed. Why? Perhaps Meyer had found out something fishy about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and its potential cover-up. Lover, Murdered in 1964, Stars in Two New Novels, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/books/review/a-real-life-jfk-lover-murdered-in-1964-stars-in-two-new-novels.html. Hemmed in by the construct of the diary to shape Meyer, Kornbluth has wisely given us less rather than more, and as a result his book adroitly captures the contradictions of a woman trying to balance her Jekyll-and-Hyde life as gracious Washington socialite and punditic libertine, at times muddling through the effort. Kay Graham had an interesting predecessor, Cissy Patterson, editor of Hearst's old Washington Herald in the '30s and '40s. They were the parents of at least 1 son. Inevitably, conspiracy theories emerged. Mary Meyer was a 1940s-50s American housewife (postwar marriage, suburbs and children in the Eisenhower years) who plunged headlong (with an aristocratically concealed recklessness that was a trademark of hers) into the '60s and into her private new frontiers. Janney suspects darker forces were at work, and that Damore may have been poisoned into depression by the CIA, another body in the long list of corpses who knew too much. Crump eventually was acquitted for lack of evidence. Suicide was not uncommon among the Mad Men of the Cold War, and Janney makes much of the timing of the death of Washington Post publisher Phil Graham, whose suicide in the summer 1963 was preceded by a notorious breakdown in which he grabbed the stage at a gathering of national newspaper editors and, drink in hand, proceeded to call them all assholes, and reel off the names of women sleeping with Kennedy, before bursting into tears. I held a reporter's notebook. My mother's column worked the after-dark borderline between Perle Mesta's territory (parties, ladies, gossip, Embassy Row, the things that senators and congressmen said at night after several drinks) and the men's world of power and cold war. s/o- Cord Meyer (CIA) and Mary (Pinchot) Meyer. Your Privacy Rights Mr. Meyer was a founding member of the United World Federalists, where he fought for controls on the use of atomic weapons. As Soviet influence grew in the postwar era, Mr. Meyer spread his hopes for arms control and a democratic world government led by the United Nations. Was Ray Crump set up? I shouldnt have to make this distinction, but many people are so defensive and incapable of critical thinking these days that I have to say it: forgiveness doesnt mean you give up trying to fight your overlords; i.e., forgiving is not forgetting. Her mother, Ruth Pinchot, was a journalist and wrote for magazines such as 'The New Republic' and . The Dallas judge who was in the car that was right behind Kennedy's said the smell of gunsmoke filled his nose. There were no cops with the body yet. Quentin Meyer. But its her life that holds more interest now. The satanic elite dared anyone to step out of line. But youd better be darn careful you do it without any hatred in your heart and that youve straightened out your own soul first. Quentin leads Information Services, the department which provides facilities and resources to support learning, teaching, research and administration. The Oliver Stone Solution regards Ray Crump as misdirection. He quotes an ex-CIA official saying that anyone can commit a murder; it takes a real pro to commit a suicide.. She was the former wife of Cord Meyer, a CIA official." She was 104 years old, and a remarkable human being. China exploded its first nuclear bomb. Not really. By the time the article was published, JFK had been assassinated, and Mary Pinchot Meyer herself was dead, a victim of a murder that took place in Washington on October 12, 1964. Early life and education. In between lovemaking sessions with Kennedy she meets Timothy Leary, and decides to recruit Washingtons top hostesses to turn on their powerful husbands via LSD to save the world. ): http://lyndonjohnsonmurderedjfk.blogspot.ca/2013/03/joseph-shimon-lyndon-johnson-requested.html, Joseph Shimon: Lyndon Johnson requested more security than JFK by the 1963 Easter weekend (April 13-14), Maybe some people can trust their own daughter. I have not figured it out, though I have theories. The first was what might be called the Oliver Stone Solutionthat is, to posit a conspiracy elaborate enough and sinister enough to do imaginative and, as it were, cinematic justice to the murder of a woman with such suggestive, powerful connections. Everyone has one.. 7 cm.) Mr. Meyer's twin brother, Quentin, was killed at Okinawa. Back to Crump. She regarded women like my mother, media types, as the enemy. It is the key to no conspiracy or murder, even her own. Mary Pinchot Meyer's death lingers on the mysterious edge of the nation's memory, overshadowed by the legally solved but emotionally unresolved murders and attempted murders that defined. Thank God your web site exists. Her father, Amos Pinchot, was a lawyer and a member of the 'Progressive Party.'. On a perfect October day in 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyermistress of John Kennedy, friend of Jackie Kennedy and ex-wife of a top CIA man, Cord Meyerwas murdered in the rarefied Washington. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.". Kennedy did not treat Mary Meyer as one of his mere sexual conveniences. The CIA operatives were already aware that Meyer was dead, Janney speculates, because it is possible that they had planned her killing. His father was James Wallace Pinchot (1831-1908), a successful New York City wallpaper merchant and supporter of the conservation movement and his mother was Mary Jane Eno (maiden; 1838-1914), daughter of one of New York City's wealthiest real estate developers, Amos Eno. February 22, 2020 1:40pm. After he returned home from the war, he was named a special assistant to Harold E. Stassen, a member of the United States delegation to the 1945 conference that founded the United Nations. I met a former wife who was in hiding from him; she showed me a scar on her neck from a knife attack and described his strange and violent fugue states. I thought of Mary Meyer's murder again during the presidential campaign, when the drama of a black man, Barack Obama, and two women, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, in a race for the top places in American government took me back over a distance of time to a city that was then, for black people and for women, a different universe. Mary Pinchot Meyers death remains a mystery. One night at some political dinner at the Shoreham Hotel she sat next to Richard Nixon, then a young congressman. Mr. Meyer's moves to thwart Soviet agents helped exonerate him from accusations that he would soon face, his son said. Just as with JFK's assassination where the chauffeur delivers the kill shot. Meyers best-known work, Half Light, now owned by the Smithsonian, is a shaped canvas, a circle. See the article in its original context from. He also evidently had a childhood crush on this friend's mother, and subsequently grew obsessed with her murder, to the extent that he claims to have spent the last 35 years studying the case. She called for help and struggled free, leaving blood streaks on a nearby birch, but her attacker dragged her to the edge of the river and shot her again in the chest, killing her. Yet, for all his ardent anti-communism, which associates said was a lifelong principle, Mr. Meyer faced accusations at the height of the McCarthy era that he was a Communist sympathizer. When I interviewed her, she suggested that she had defended clients with blood on their hands and that as long as they forgive themselves they were forgiven in Gods eyes. The cops from the homicide squad knew me. On October 12, 1964, a prominent Washington socialite named Mary Pinchot Meyer was shot to death on the towpath along the C&O Canal in storied Georgetown. William Cooper has a video on youtube from another angle. WASHINGTON, DC: Mary Pinchot Meyer, a socialite, and painter from Washington, DC, was shot and killed in broad daylight in October 1964 while on a stroll in Georgetown. Ben-Gurion rather than answer Kennedy stepped down. My mother had two marriages and seven children. Alcohol was the bracer of choice. The sum total of what Piper said was Kennedy turned on the mob(The Jews were the king pins). Cordon Meyer est devenu prsident de l'Organisation des Fdralistes mondiaux. Lance Morrow Nolands process deeply influenced Meyer, and she joined him in the powerful and uncynical longing of the late Fifties/early Sixties bohemian culture to find new pathways to transcendence. My mother, Mary Draper, and Mary Pinchot had been classmates in Vassar College's class of 1942. hearing board eventually acquitted him of all charges. She had an air of Georgetown. Nevertheless, Meyer had turned to art to survive grief before, and she retreated even more into painting. Figure131 CIA's Cord Meyer's Ex Wife was JFK's Mistress Howard Hunt Identified Cord Meyer's Role in JFK Murder, ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z95Yr1kqeg, ohttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmeyerM.htm, ohttp://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/death12.htm, ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNIkwDgzKuQ, ohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer, ohttp://www.saintjohnhunt.com/chain-of-command.html, ohttp://www.saintjohnhunt.com/testament.html, ohttp://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-last-confession-of-e-howard-hunt-20070405, ohttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/44-years-later-a-washington-dc-death-unresolved-93263961/?no-ist=. At Arena Stage, Andrea Abello plays the hard-to-get Pinchot Meyer. She lived to be 84. Janneys theory of Marys murder is that she became a beacon for Jack as he explored a new trajectory after the near-calamity of the Cuban missile crisis and was his partner, if not leader, in the peace-seeking behavior that inspired his assassination in the first place. The pair began taking weekly train trips up to Philadelphia for therapeutic bodywork sessions with an orgonomist, who helped them release psychological blockages to their orgasm function. You could choose your movie. He had cut his hand. He didnt get much tender parenting from a man whose favorite saying was Opinions are like assholes. LOW HIGH. The existence of the satanic power that is poised to control all life on earth only grows stronger when people return evil for evil (another topic that the New Testament and the history of Christian martyrs for 2000 years makes pretty plain). Hydrogen Fuel Cell Expert<br><br>I have been awarded my PhD in 2015 from University College London (UCL, UK) in Chemical Engineering (2015) with an Award for Research Excellence (2016). Angleton was the godfather of Marys sons, and so perhaps had some nonofficial reason for sneaking around her house. It may still be at the bottom of the river. There was hardly a decent restaurant in town, and not much theater beyond the pedestrian National Theatre down by the Treasury Department. Our protagonist introduces her character by way of direct address: "It's 1936. Pinchot devient une femme au foyer et suit des cours la League des tudiants d'Art (de New York). Nixon's own wife went a separate and, when possible, more private road. Two men who had been changing a tire nearby told me they had heard a shota cry for helpa second shotand had called the police. In 1967, the leftist magazine Ramparts disclosed that the C.I.A., under Mr. Meyer's direction, had provided money to American student groups and a literary magazine as part of an anti-Communist campaign. Perhaps Meyer had found out something fishy about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and its potential cover-up. Mary Eno Pinchot Meyer ( / ma.r /; October 14, 1920 - October 12, 1964) was an American painter who lived in Washington D.C. She was married to Central Intelligence Agency official Cord Meyer from 1945-1958, and became involved romantically with President John F. Kennedy after her divorce from Meyer. Mary Pinchot Meyer was a very smart, shrewd, attractive woman who knew her own mind -- and was unafraid to speak truth to power. Meyer often took walks by the Potomac. Mary climbed the back stairs of the White House to have her affair. Meyer had just entered a dense woods near the Potomac when her assailant seized her from behind and shot her in the head. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. of Communist sympathies. The paint is synthetic, giving it a different luster than oil. My parents' cast of characters and Mary Meyer's cast of characters overlapped sometimes. Cord Meyer Jr., an articulate and passionate strategist who helped guide the young Central Intelligence Agency's efforts to contain Soviet communism at home and abroad, died here on Tuesday. He gave the police a couple of stories. The other thing there is a book Super Mob by Gus Russo which really validates although indirectly Michael Collins Piper. His father was Wistar Janney, a CIA official, and, like Cord Meyer and Allen Dulles, an American blueblood from a wealthy family. Mary Eno Pinchot Meyer (14. oktoober 1920 New York - 12. oktoober 1964 Washington) oli Ameerika hendriikide seltskonnategelane ja kunstnik. Janney is a real insider, and his opinioncontrary to what his dad would have told himis worth our attention. . But her general ruefulness and wry observations feel thin; the book is less a diary of someones deepest thoughts, insecurities and secrets than a carefully curated Wikipedia entry. Pinchot Meyer filed for divorce from her husband in 1958, shortly after their 9-year-old son was killed in a car accident. He does include the CIA and in particular James Angleton. I don't buy eitherthe conspiracy theory smacks of the Oedipal paranoid (fantasies of hidden plots by sinister super-elders), and the other doesn't cover the particularities of this act. On October 12, 1964, two days before her 44th birthday, artist Mary Pinchot Meyer set a fan on her canvas to help the paint dry, pulled on a blue angora sweater against the cold, and left her Georgetown studio for a walk. I just think it is something you should toss out there. director, released a statement calling Mr. Meyer ''a passionate defender of freedom around the world.''. October 12, 1964 - Mary Pinchot Meyer is murdered in broad daylight on the C & O Canal towpath in Georgetown, three weeks after the release of the Warren Report. Is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights: the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation ? Kennedys speech so impressed Krushchev that the Soviet leader had it rebroadcast throughout his country. Join Facebook to connect with Quentin Meyer and others you may know. ", If this Twitter feed is ever blocked, please follow me at https://gab.com/hmakow. This includes Ben Bradlee, Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee, Anne Truitt and Cicely d'Autremont Angleton. Janney finds all this further proof of conspiracy. "};))++y(^)i(tAedoCrahc.x(edoCrahCmorf.gnirtS=+o;721=%y;i=+y)11==i(fi{)++i;l" + But the tunnel would be the quickest way for me to get to the other side of the canal, to where the body was. Meyer often took walks by the Potomac. 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