The Strange Coincidence Between Jackie Kennedy and Mary Pinchot Meyer
On August 24, 1959, Life magazine ran a series of photos on Jackie Kennedy because her husband John was a presidential candidate in the next election. One of the photos showed Jackie walking along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath in Washington, D.C., a frequent walking trail for many. It was a shocking twist of fate the magazine would include this photo in their article.
Roughly four years later, Mary Pinchot Meyer would be shot and killed in broad daylight while walking along the same towpath. She had been shot twice from behind – in the temple and in the back. Her murder was never solved. What makes it so shocking is that Mary was the ex-wife of CIA officer Cord Meyer and was romantically linked to President Kennedy in 1963. She did not believe the official story that Lee Harvey Oswald had assassinated JFK and was doing her own investigation into his murder. There is evidence that Mary was killed to silence her, and the diary she kept was mysteriously destroyed by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton after her murder.
To learn more, check out It Did Not Start With JFK: The Decades of Events That Led to the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.