GR-related: JFK & L.S.D. & conspiracies

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the real katharine graham: an interview with deborah
davis

by Kenn Thomas (kennthomas at umsl.edu) - July 22, 2001

Editor's Note: Kenn Thomas publishes Steamshovel
Press, the conspiracy theory magazine. Four issue
subscription: $23; single issue: $6, from POB 23715,
St. Louis, MO 63121. An anthology of back issues,
Popular Alienation (Illuminet Press, 1995), is also
available.

Deborah Davis wrote Katharine the Great, which
documented the intelligence agency ties of Ben Bradlee
and Bob Woodward and reported on Phil Graham
"suiciding" just after publically revealing the
liaison between JFK and his acid mistress, Mary
Pinchot Meyer. The late great Kate sued over the book
and had its entire first print run shredded. Katharine
Graham is being held up as a role model for women and
journalists, but the real such person is Davis, who
ultimately had two later editions done by small
presses.

Q: Tim Leary suggested that your book was originally
censored and pulped because of references to Mary
Pinchot Meyer. Do you feel that way and can you tell
us a little bit about Mary Meyer?

A: Mary Pinchot Meyer was the sister of Ben Bradlee's
second wife, Tony Pinchot. She was a very beautiful,
talented artist who was living in Washington in the
early '65 and she was the lover, I would say the
principal lover, of John Kennedy, who was President of
the United States. He was supposedly very much in love
with her and wanted to divorce Jackie and marry her.

The Timothy Leary connection is interesting because at
that time in the early sixties there was a group of
society-type women in Washington who thought that if
they could get men in power involved in mind?altering
drugs they could see the world in a different way and
this would end the Cold War and end all warfare. It
was a very ambitious plan and a lot of them got their
marijuana and LSD from Timothy Leary, who at that time
was a professor of psychology at Harvard and had
access to these drugs. At that time were very
experimental and they were going around in a lot of
the elite circles. It didn't have the same connotation
that it has today of the hard stuff, of the cocaine
and the heroin. This was all very beautiful and
mind-expanding type stuff. So she was involved with
Kennedy and they used to supposedly smoke marijuana
together in Kennedy's bedroom and I think Leary said
that she also gave him LSD, although I couldn't swear
to that.

Anyway, she got murdered. She was murdered a year
after Kennedy died. Kennedy was killed in November '63
and Mary Meyer was killed in 1964. She was walking her
dog in Georgetown through a wooded area and she was
stabbed to death. And they never found the killer.
Some young black man was put in jail for ten months,
held over until his trial and then he was acquitted
because there was no evidence. And they've never found
the killer but people who have investigated the case
say that it had all the earmarks of a professional
assassination. [...]

...continues:

<http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1415/pg1/>

....your mileage may vary, of course....At any rate,
GR seems to lament the murder of President Kennedy,
and his death remains a dark day for more than a few
of my generation, despite subsequent revisionist views
of the man and the presidency.

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