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JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story

By: Jesse Kornbluth
Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
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Mary Pinchot Meyer was possibly the only woman John F. Kennedy ever loved. Follow their affair in this fictional diary of the woman murdered for asking too many questions after the JFK assassination.

John F. Kennedy said he needed sex every three days or he got a headache. In the White House, he never had a headache. Kennedy met Mary Pinchot in 1935, when he was eighteen and she was sixteen. Twenty years later, when she was living in Virginia and married to Cord Meyer, a high-ranking CIA official, she was Jack and Jackie Kennedy’s next-door neighbor. In 1962, she was an artist, divorced, living in Washington—and Kennedy’s first serious romance. Mary Pinchot Meyer was more than a bedmate. She was Kennedy’s beacon light: his sole female adviser, spending mornings in the Oval Office, and, at night, discussing issues. After the 1964 election, Kennedy said, he would divorce Jackie and marry her.

After the assassination, Mary didn’t believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and she shared that view, loudly and often, in Washington’s most elite circles. Her ex-husband urged her to be silent, but when the report of the Warren Commission was released, she was even more loudly critical.

On October 10, 1964, two days before her forty-forth birthday, as she walked in Georgetown, a man shot her in the head and the heart. That night, Mary's best friend called her sister. “Mary had a diary,” she said. “Get it.”

The diary was filled with sketches, notes for paintings—and ten pages about an affair with an unnamed lover. Her sister burned it. In JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story, Jesse Kornbluth re-creates the diary Mary might have written. Working from a time line of Kennedy’s presidency and every documented account of their public relationship, he has written a high-octane thriller that tracks this secret, doomed romance—and invites listeners to solve Mary’s murder.

©2022 Jesse Kornbluth (P)2022 Library Ideas
20th Century Historical Fiction Political Romance Fiction Heartfelt Divorce Espionage
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John Kennedy and his friend and lover Mary Pinchot Meyer were shot execution style within 10 months of each other. Both cases are essentially unsolved 60 years later. The conspiracy that killed Kennedy was behind Meyers death too; she was collateral damage. Mary. knew too much as a former CIA wife and former journalist. She was piecing together John's murder. This novel humanizes the secret, complex relationship between john and Mary. And it offers a glimpse into the glamorous world of Camelot that Mary experienced as the ultimate "insider". Their mutual vision of world peace angered the military industrial complex and it was a factor in their mutual demise. This novel is very true to life and is fact based.

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