Wealthy heiress knows her husband is stepping out on her with a vivacious artist who is also a paramour and confidant of JFK, and said husband has stated in public his intention of taking the WAPO from her, motive enough?
Add another whiff of smoke, after Mary Pinchot Meyer’s death, her dairy was taken by her sister’s husband, Ben Bradlee, later promoted by Katherine Graham to run the WAPO. Diary was taken by them before DC police had any idea it existed or might be of importance. Bradlee later admitted to taking the diary after they encountered James Angleton rifling through Mary’s apartment. Angleton was the vaunted CIA head of counter-intelligence. Cord Meyer, Mary’s husband was in CIA ops.
Mary Pinchot Meyer was murdered in October 1964, almost a year after JFK was murdered. Cui bono? Katherine Graham had an extraordinary run of luck in having her husband and his lover depart from the planet within 2 years. Marital and business threats to her just disappeared. A documentary of Meyers death included an interview of Bradlee, who was willing to mention their taking of the diary and finding Angleton but refused direct questions as to what was in the diary the Bradlees burned.
Intelligence people all throughout that saga....
She married Felix Frankfurter’s brilliant law clerk, Philip Graham, who took over running The Post, which her father purchased at a bankruptcy sale. Graham built the paper but became estranged from Kay. She had him committed to a mental hospital, and he was clearly intending divorce when she signed him out and took him for a weekend outing during which he was found shot. His death was ruled a suicide. Within 48 hours, she declared herself the publisher.
"Suicide"