Nina Burleigh - A Very Private Woman - The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Mary Eno Pinchot Meyer, the President’s long term mistress, was found dead on Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath in Washington D.C. on October 12, 1964. Initially an arrest of a man called Ray Crump took place following testimony mainly from a mechanic Henry Wiggins, who told Police he saw "a black man in a light jacket, dark slacks, and a dark cap standing over the body of a white woman.". Crump was later quitted due to an almost iron clad (but unheard in court) alibi from a third party.
Nina Burleigh’s book on Meyer has been hailed as ‘the reference book’ on Meyer, and focusses on her almost beatnick lifestyle, one which involved the President of the United States. In this interview she tells Ed Opperman of this remarkable and sadly almost forgotten woman who would, had the President not died, have changed the world.
What did Meyer know? Why did her papers and diaries vanish? And who was the man on the towpath who was seen calmly walking away from a woman who had been shot in the chest and then in the head?
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