Mary's Mosaic
The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace: Third Edition
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Publisher Description
• Explores the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer and her connected to President Kennedy
• Ideal book for fans of The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much by Dorothy Kilgallen, Dr. Mary’s Monkey by Edward T. Haslam, and other JFK conspiracy books
• Updated edition of the true crime expose, including new evidence and government documents corroborating the conspiracy to assassinate JFK’s trusted ally and final true love
The death of Mary Meyer left many Americans with questions. Who really killed her? Why did CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton rush to find and confiscate her diary? Had she discovered the plan to assassinate her lover, President Kennedy, with the trail of information ending at the steps of the CIA? Was it only coincidence that she was killed less than three weeks after the release of the Warren Commission Report?
Fans of The Murder of Mary Russell, JFK: A Vision for America, and other JFK books will love Mary’s Mosaic. Building and relying on years of interviews and painstaking research, author Peter Janney follows the key events and influences in Mary Pinchot Meyer’s life—her first meeting with Jack Kennedy; her support of her secret lover, President Kennedy, as he worked towards the pursuit of world peace and away from the Cold War; and her exploration of psychedelic drugs. Fifty years after the assassinations of President Kennedy and Mary Meyer, this book helps readers understand why both took place.
Author Peter Janney fought for two years to obtain documents from the National Personnel Records Center and the US Army to complete this third edition. It includes a final chapter about the mystery man who could be the missing piece to learn the truth behind Meyer’s murder.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Although unlikely to cause any JFK conspiracy theorists or Warren Commission defenders to change camps, Janney's exhaustive look at the 1964 murder of Mary Meyer shines a light on a now obscure crime that could have a connection to the events in Dallas a year earlier. Meyer, rumored to have been the president's mistress shortly before his death, was gunned down on a walk on a towpath in Washington, D.C. The police quickly seized upon Ray Crump Jr., an African-American found in the vicinity, as the shooter, despite his not matching an eyewitness's description of the man he'd seen standing over the corpse. The victim's social status made the murder a high-profile one. Apart from her alleged personal involvement with Kennedy (which Janney takes as established fact), her brother-in-law was now legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. The author is most successful at demonstrating the innocence of Crump (who was acquitted at trial), and pointing out unanswered questions. That Janney was friendly with Meyer, that one of her sons was his best friend growing up, that he accuses his own father (who worked for the CIA) of being complicit in her death, casts doubt on his objectivity and his ultimate theory that Meyer was eliminated because she was asking too many questions about her lover's murder.
