MARY PINCHOT MEYER - THE PROGRESSIVE

SMITHSONIAN - PRESIDENTIAL LOVE LETTER

Excerpt:  Meyer was a fascinating woman in her own right - the daughter of a Progressive Party philanthropist and a journalist, she herself perused a career in the press at a time when women were still largely marginalized in the field.  She briefly served as editor for Atlantic Monthly and brushed shoulders with Communists, pacifists, and intellectuals over the year.  She was also a talented artist.  Those bohemian leanings are said to have perhaps softened Jfk:s view of the Cold War during their years-long affair.

KENNEDY LOVE LETTER TO MARY PINCHOT MEYERS : JUST SAY YES

Here's an interesting article from Harpers Baazaar:  HARPERS BAZAAR - LOVE LETTERS FROM J.F.K. to MARY PINCHOT MEYERS
Read about how it's understood who wrote the letter and to whom - how this was authenticated for auction.

EXCERPT: "Why don't you leave suburbia for once - come and see me - either here - or at the Cape next week or in Boston the 19th.  I know it is unwise, irrational, and that you may hate it...

MARY'S MOSAIC : THE BOOK by PETER JANNEY

A BIT ABOUT THE BOOK :
There are many interviews with Peter Janney, the author of Mary's Mosaic, on YouTube, and I listened to long and short ones.  Janney was good friends with one of Mary Pinchot Meyer's sons, the one who died young.  His own father, he feels, was capable of being part of the plot to assassinate her.  He uses that term assassinate. Janney thinks President John F. Kennedy was our greatest American President and says most polls agree, it's either J.F.K. or Abraham Lincoln.  His hope was that this book and the discussion of it would reopen the murder investigation, since Mary's death is an unsolved murder.