Another disturbing fact often overlooked is the number of witnesses and journalists murdered for daring to speak out. (-$):0/%W~DNU_Q200\\\\XBY]R_320\\\\l2" + And because shed been both a longtime friend and a lover to Kennedyshed wanted the truth known. No one knows if JFK did experiment with LSD with Meyer, but rumors persist, championed by followers of Leary and proven by dramatic changes in Kennedys international policies in 1963. But, she added, ''he was a consistent anti-communist'' who did not trust the Soviets. John allegedly swooped in on Mary's date and stole the young woman away during a preparatory-school dance. 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. The political success of womenstill only partialsometimes has the perversely flattening and narrowing effect of making them (much like male politicians) a little dull, a little relentless and charmlessly self-important. So while the Americans were being regaled with one lucrative bull puckey theory after another, the Japanese were learning the truth. He left his postgraduate work at Harvard and signed up with the C.I.A. Joseph Shimon, liaison between CIA, FBI, DC police and the Executive My mother, Mary Draper, and Mary Pinchot had been classmates in Vassar College's class of 1942. Mr. Meyer's twin brother, Quentin, was killed at Okinawa. Janney bases his theory on the unpublished notes of a writer named Leo Damore, who, before he decided to venture into the Mary Meyer story, had written a best-seller about Ted Kennedy. The diary, which Mr. Bradlee and his wife found later that day, disclosed an affair between Mrs. Meyer and President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was shot in his motorcade in Dallas just as Meyers star was ascending in the D.C. art world. She had an air of Georgetown. Her fate was complicated as well. One night at some political dinner at the Shoreham Hotel she sat next to Richard Nixon, then a young congressman. The affair cooled by 1963, but Meyer remained a trusted contact. Joe Kennedy was known to remark that if his daughter Eunice had been born male, "she would have been a hell of a politician." Meyer had just entered a dense woods near the Potomac when her assailant seized her from behind and shot her in the head. (Full disclosure, Janney optioned my book for a number of years, and, after failing to make a movie out of it, decided to write his own book challenging my conclusions.). A day laborer found hiding in the bushes along the canal was acquitted of the crime, and it remains unsolved. 0 Reputation Score Range. She lay on her side, as if sleeping. "