In a recently resurfaced letter, former President John F. Kennedy expressed his feelings for Mary Pinchot Meyer, one of his alleged mistresses who was later mysteriously murdered. While JFK’s affairs have long been a subject of speculation, some have been supported by witness testimonials, diary entries, and now, this letter.
Kennedy and Meyer first crossed paths when they were attending prep school together, but their alleged affair began in the 1960s. Meyer was married to a CIA agent named Cord Meyer, and the couple was friends with JFK and his wife Jackie Kennedy. They even lived near the Kennedys in Washington D.C.
According to a four-page letter dated 1963, Kennedy invited Meyer to leave suburbia and spend time with him. He wrote, “I know it is unwise, irrational, and that you may hate it – on the other hand you may not – and I will love it.” Kennedy expressed his desire for Meyer to give him a more loving answer and signed off with a simple ‘J.’ However, the letter was never sent, as Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
A year after Kennedy’s death, Meyer met a tragic end when she was shot while walking in Georgetown. Her murder remains unsolved, but many suspect that she was killed because she possessed sensitive information. Meyer’s brother-in-law, Ben Bradlee, claimed that he caught the chief of CIA counterintelligence, James Angleton, breaking into Meyer’s studio on the night of her murder to retrieve her diary. Bradlee alleged that Angleton was trying to protect JFK’s reputation.
The diary, which allegedly contained references to Meyer’s affair with the President, was eventually burned by Meyer’s sister, Antoinette “Tony” Pinchot. The exact timeline of the affair is uncertain, but Meyer’s name first appeared on the White House logs in October 1962. It is unclear whether Jackie Kennedy was aware of the alleged tryst.
Meyer’s murder, just ten days after the release of the Warren Commission report investigating JFK’s assassination, has raised suspicions that she was silenced due to her knowledge of sensitive information. Meyer lived in a world of secrets, surrounded by spies involved in international plots during the early days of the nuclear age.
The details surrounding JFK’s alleged affairs continue to captivate biographers and historians, as they attempt to separate fact from fiction. The resurfacing of this letter adds another intriguing piece to the puzzle of Kennedy’s personal life.
