“JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story” is a most unusual thing: a novel with footnotes. In the 1960s, the New Journalists adopted the techniques of novelists to spice up their reporting. Author Jesse Kornbluth offers a 21st century variation. He imports the apparatus of academia to give ballast to the true tale of a...
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The Death of Mary Meyer, JFK’s Partner, Explained
In the Daily Beast ace reporter Christopher Dickey concisely explains the fascinating figure of Mary Meyer, aspiring painter, ex-CIA wife, and spiritual/romantic partner of President John F. Kennedy. Eleven months after her lover JFK was gunned down in Dallas, Meyer was killed on the deserted tow path of the C&O canal in Washington DC. There...