by Peter Janney
and Timothy Leary (see Timothy Leary) 3, 26, 37, 83, 86, 204, 216, 219, 271–73, 278, 325, 373, 435
Relationships (significant) of, Anne Truitt, 30, 32, 36, 73, 79, 174, 190, 202, 218, 219, 252, 277; author’s relationship with (see also: Peter Janney); Ben Bradlee, 1, 59, 70, 75, 80, 114, 187, 228; Cicely Angleton, 1, 3, 38, 64–65, 70–73, 79, 136, 162; Jackie Kennedy, 36, 64, 144, 252, 270; James Angleton, 3, 32, 35, 65, 70, 73, 77–80, 85, 87, 370, 391; James Truitt, 1–2, 32, 70, 73–74, 83, 162, 202, 225, 250, 364; Katharine Graham, 249, 271; Ken Noland, 14, 64–65, 184, 201, 204–207; Kenneth O’Donnell, 24, 64, 228, 274, 283; Philip L. Graham, 38, 249; Robert Schwartz, 159–164, 201, 209; Scottie Fitzgerald Lanahan (Smith), 64; Tony Bradlee, 78, 80, 228, 366; William Attwood, 149–154, 156, 263, 275–276; William Walton, 31, 64, 242, 264, 302–304
Meyer, Quentin (Cord Meyer’s twin brother)
death of, 167–168
impact on Cord Meyer, 173, 178
(see also: Cord Meyer Jr.)
Miller, Merle (journalist): on Cord Meyer, 169, 195
Milton Academy: see Mark Meyer Mitchell, William L. (alleged runner on towpath), 61–62, 130–132, 320–325
alleged aliases of, 324
alleged confession to Leo Damore (1993), 328–332, 377–378, 401–424
as alleged runner on towpath, 61–62, 130–132, 320–321
as mathematics instructor at Georgetown University (see: Roberta Hornig), 131, 322
and Bermuda shorts runner, 132, 320–321, 333–336
and CIA safe-house address, 322, 329
and clothing of Ray Crump, 61–62, 128
description of “Negro male” as Ray Crump, 61–62, 93, 103, 112, 130, 135
first appearance of, 61
and Leo Damore’s search for, 321–322, 327, 328, 401–424
and Dovey Roundtree’s belief about, 320
Dovey Roundtree’s cross-examination of, 130–132
Listing in Pentagon telephone directory, 321–322
and murder of Mary Meyer, 324, 328, 329–332, 333–336, 339, 401–424
testimony at trial, 130–132,
and young white couple, 132, 320–321, 424
Minturn, Gertrude (mother of Rosamund Pinchot), 153
and divorce of Amos Pinchot, 147
Monroe, Marilyn
alleged suicide of, 231
and Bobby Kennedy, 231
JFK’s affair with, 213, 231
Moore, Bishop Paul, Jr.
Ben Bradlee, 68
officiating at Mary Meyer’s funeral, 68–69
“paranoia surrounding Mary’s murder,” 69
and Pinchot family, 68–69
relationship with Cord Meyer, 68, 194
Moore, Purcell (private investigator for Dovey Roundtree)
pursuit of repair ticket for stalled Nash Rambler, 104
and Ray Crump’s girlfriend Vivian, 95
Murray, Robert V. (D.C. Police Chief)
FBI Crime Lab Report delivered to, 60, 98
Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires): see Pan American Union
Naftali, Timothy (author): on William Walton’s trip to Russia, 34
National Archives,
alteration of JFK autopsy photos, 293, 295
and author Joan Mellen, 20–1
and CIA threats, 21
classified assassination documents at, 21, 293, 295
JFK’s brain photographs, 293, 295
Oswald’s phony defection to Russia, 21
NAACP,
legal team; Dovey Roundtree, 93; Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, 93
Medgar Evers, 105, 264
National Enquirer (newspaper),
and Deborah Davis, 221, 225
and James Truitt, 1, 70, 80, 225, 371
1976 exposé “Former Vice President of Washington Post Reveals JFK 2-Year White House Romance,” 1–3, 18, 70, 72–3, 75, 78, 80, 82, 139, 221, 225, 365, 367, 371
National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC)
Arthur C. Lundahl, 287–290
“Bill Smith,” 290–291
and CIA, 287–292
Dino Brugioni, 287–292
Homer McMahon, 290–292
Morgan Bennett Hunter, 290–292
Secret Service, 289–292
Zapruder Film, 287–292
National Security Action Memoranda NS AM 55, 237
NSAM 57, 237
NSAM 288, 277
NSAM 273, 277, 309
NSAM 263, 275, 309
National Security Council (NSC)
and “Top Secret Directive 10/2” (June 18, 1948), 233
CIA’s unchecked power, 233,
Cuban Missile Crisis, 242–3
meeting of July 20, 1961, 237–8
“plausible deniability,” 233
Newman, John M. (author-historian),
Angleton’s handling of Oswald, 345
author interview with, 367
on James Angleton, 345
Oswald and the CIA, 345, 367
Nixon, Richard M.,
and Arthur Lundahl briefing, 288
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 310
and Joseph Shimon, 381
quote of, 63
and support of CIA, 234
“war on drugs,” 195
Timothy Leary’s assertions about (according to Ron Rosenbaum), 373
Vietnam War, 195, 310
Nobile, Philip (coauthor with Ron Rosenbaum).
(see Ron Rosenbaum).
Noland, Ken (artist),
as champion of Reichian therapy, 206
author Nina Burleigh’s interview with, 206–207
and Bradlee cocktail party, 207; and Georgetown Day School, 14
JFK’s remark about, 207
and LSD use, 206
and Mary’s loss of son Michael, 201
and orgonomy with Dr. Charles Oller, 205–206; relationship with Mary Meyer, 14, 33, 64–65, 184, 201
and Robert Budd, 204–206
and Washington Color School, 65, 184, 204-
nuclear test ban treaty (see: Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963).
O’Blazney, Mark: research assistant to
Leo Damore, 25, 330–331
Letter from Seymour Hersh, 25
O’Donnell, Kenneth P. (“Kenny”),
alcoholism of, 328
and Bobby Kennedy’s funeral, 328,
caving to FBI pressure, 284–286
and dinner with Tip O’Neill and Dave Powers, 284–285
interviews with author Leo Damore, 24, 64, 226, 228, 284
and JFK and Vietnam, 275
and James H. Smith, Esq., 24, 328
Lyndon Johnson and trip to Dallas, 253
and Mary Meyer; confrontation with JFK, 228; and dedication of Pinchot Institute, 63; JFK’s love for, 64, 226, 230; O’Donnell’s fear of, 283, 358; post assassination visit with, 283–285, 296–297
1970 Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign, 24
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI),
JFK as Navy ensign, 209
and Lee Harvey Oswald, 355; and author Anthony Summers, 430; author Joan Mellen, 430; Victor Marchetti, 430
and paranoia regarding JFK and Inga Arvad, 210
O’Neill, Edward [“Ted”],
contact with Dovey Roundtree, 100
Legal Aid Society of D.C., 52,
Ray Crump’s denial of bail and preliminary hearing, 53
O’Neill, Thomas (“Tip”), and Dave Powers, 284–285
and Kenny O’Donnell, 284–285
Man of the House (1987), 284
references to Warren Commission, 284
Oller, Dr. Charles I.,
as protégé of Wilhelm Reich, 205
and colleague Dr. Morton Herskowitz,
Mary Meyer’s treatment with, 205–206
(see also: Ken Noland),
practitioner of orgonomy, 205
and Robert Budd, 205–206
termination of treatment with K
en Noland, 206
Olson, Frank (CIA/Ft. Detrick),
and author H. P. Albarelli; A Terrible Mistake, 324
Captain Al Hubbard’s belief about, 204
CIA chemical warfare expert, 204
destabilization of via LSD, 204
and LSD experiments; Pont-Saint-Esprit experiment, 203
suicide death as disguise, 204
Operation Mockingbird (See also: Frank Wisner, Cord Meyer, Allen Dulles, and Philip L. Graham).
as CIA manipulation of media, 191–192, 234, 248
control of Life Magazine,
and Edgar Applewhite (CIA),
and Mary Meyer’s awareness of, 191
and National Student Association, 191
Ramparts Magazine, 192
and Washington Post, 192
Operation Phoenix (CIA), 195
orgonomy: as developed by Wilhelm Reich, 205–206
(See also: Dr. Charles Oller, Mary
Meyer, Ken Noland, Dr. Morton Herskowitz, Robert Budd).
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 69, 84, 292, 296–299, 329
and alleged murder of J.D. Tippit, 281, 298, 475
as “lone assassin,” 282–283, 290, 370
death of, 282
entrance into Dallas movie theater, 281
False defector program, 21, 430
and George de Mohrenschildt (CIA), 34
and Jack Ruby, 282, 308
and James Wagenvoord, 308
and John M. Newman, 345, 367
and Joseph Trento, 349
manipulation of James Angleton, 2, 85, 361, 367, 370,
and Mark Lane’s “Defense Brief for Oswald,” 297–298
and Robert Crowley, 355; Atsugi air base, 355; Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), 355
and Robert Morrow, 315,
Senator Richard Schweiker’s assertion about, 21
and tirade of William Walton, 305
Texas School Book Depository (TSBD), 281
Pan American Union art exhibit (Nine Contemporary Painters: USA), 31
Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires), 31
and paintings of Mary Meyer, 31; Clearing, 31; Fire Island II, 31; Foxglove, 31
Parmet, Herbert (historian and JFK biographer):
on JFK’s relationship with Mary Meyer, 36, 434
Pearson, Drew (Washington Post columnist): on Jackie Kennedy’s post stillbirth recovery trip to London, 199
Perkins, Elsie (Ray Crump’s neighbor), 484
neighbor to Ray and Helena Crump,
Pall Mall cigarettes, 57
and Ray Crump’s clothes, 57, 439
Perry, Dr. Malcolm (attending physician at Parkland Memorial Hospital),
and Mark Lane, 297–298
and nurse Audrey Bell, 296
press conference on wounds of JFK, 295
throat wound as entrance wound, 295–296
Phillips, David Atlee (CIA): on James Angleton as CIA’s answer to the Delphic Oracle, 370
Pickering, Ruth (mother of Mary Meyer). See: Ruth Pickering Pinchot.
Pinchot, Amos (Mary Meyer’s father), 32, 143–48, 153–55, 190, 194, 234, 443, 452
(see also: Rosamund Pinchot), 452
and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 147
and birth of Mary Eno Pinchot (Mary Pinchot Meyer), 147
death (1944) of, 32, and Gertrude Miniturn (first marriage), 147
hysterical blindness episode of, 153
and James Pinchot (father), 145, 146
“Keep an anchor to windward in case of revolution,” 239
marriage to Ruth Pickering (1919),147
and Mary Jane Eno (mother), 145, and Norman Thomas, 147
and Roger Baldwin, 147
and Teddy Roosevelt’s inner circle, 35, 147
and William Attwood, 263, 443, 452, 472
and Yale University, 145
Pinchot, Antoinette [“Tony”]: see Antoinette (“Tony”) Bradlee
Pinchot, Cornelia Bryce, (wife of Governor Gifford Pinchot), 146, 147
also known as Lelia, 146, as ‘grand dame’ of Pinchot clan, 147
role model influence on Mary Meyer, 146
writing in Nation, 147, 148
Pinchot, Gifford (brother of Amos Pinchot), 146, 239, 273, 451
influence on Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas,
as uncle of Mary Meyer, 35, 273,
Governor of Pennsylvania, 60, 103
Grey Towers, 63, 273
and loss of Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race (1914), 146
and Teddy Roosevelt, 35
U.S. Forest Service, 35, 63
Pinchot, Mary (see Mary Pinchot Meyer).
Pinchot, Rosamund (half-sister to Mary Meyer), 153–55, 443
suicide of, 153, 443
Amos Pinchot’s reaction to suicide, 153, 154
Amos Pinchot’s tribute to, 155
author Bibi Gaston, 154
and early diary of Mary Pinchot (Meyer), 154, 155
and horseback riding of, 153, 154,
and influence on Mary Pinchot (Meyer), 154
and Mary Meyer’s poem “Requiem,” 154, 155
Pinchot, Ruth Pickering (Mary Meyer’s mother), 16, 63, 68, 146–48, 187, 274, 440
as ‘grand dame’ of Pinchot clan, 147
as journalist, 146–48
at daughter Mary Meyer’s funeral, 68
at 1963 dedication of Pinchot Institute, 63, 274, 440
Columbia University, 146
feminist, 146-48 1954 “husband dumping trip,” 187
on Mary Meyer’s early self-worth, 148
reaction of after funeral of her grandson Michael Pinchot Meyer, 16
and Robert Schwartz,
the Nation, 147, 148
the New Republic, 146, 147
the Masses, 146
and Vassar College, 146
Pinchot Institute for Conservation: 1963 dedication of, 63, 274, 440, 498
Pittman, Steuart (Tony Bradlee’s first husband), 182, 187, 340, 366, 448
as Cord Meyer’s attorney for 1977 negotiations with Harper & Row, 448
and daughter Nancy, 366, 443,
marriage to Tony Pinchot, 182, 340, 366
and separation from Tony, 187
Washington lawyer, 182, and Wistar Janney, 3, 11, 20, 27, 64–8, 340, 338–43, 364, 365, 371, 373, 448, 477, 485, 504
Pollan, Ray (Park Police officer): interview by author Leo Damore, 97, 445
Powers, David F.
as close aid to JFK, 24,
as witness to JFK assassination, 284, 285
at JFK Library, 284
interview by radio producer Woody Woodland, 284, 285, 476
and Kenneth (“Kenny”) P. O’Donnell, 24, 64, 226, 228, 230, 253, 274, 275, 283, 284–86, 296, 328, 358, 431–33, 435, 440, 464, 467
reference to Tip O’Neill and Man of the House,
and Secret Service entries of “Dave Powers plus one,” 226
Prouty, Colonel L. Fletcher, 21, 235, 326, 327, 349, 412, 420, 483
and alleged communication with author Leo Damore, 327–29, 412
and Allen Dulles, 237, 326
as mentioned in notes of James H. Smith, Esq., 24, 327–29, 420, 432, 433, 436, 483
and FBI, 327, 420
JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (1996), 420
and Joseph Trento, 349, 350, 359, 372, 379
and knowledge of “William L. Mitchell,” 420
reference to ‘shadow government,’ 21
and role in CIA, 235, 326, 327, 420
The Secret Team (1973), 21, 327, 420, 483
template for role of “Mr. X.” in the film JFK, 327, 420
Ram Dass (formerly Harvard Professor Richard Alpert), 241
and Harvard Psilocybin Project, 215–216, 258
quote of, 241
and Timothy Leary, 216
Rayford, Dr. Linwood L. (Deputy Coroner), 48, 54–55, 59, 114–115, 133, 337, 438–439
at murd
er scene, 48, 114, 337, 438–439
and Ben Bradlee identification, 59
gunshot wounds of Mary Meyer, 48, 55, 114–115, 133, 436
nitrates on Crump’s hands, 115
powder burns, 55, 115
and Randolph M. Worrell (morgue technician), 54
testimony at trial, 114–115, 133, 436, 438
time of Mary Meyer’s autopsy, 54
Reich, Wilhelm, 205–206
and Dr. Charles Oller, 205–206; Mary Meyer as patient of, 205–206
and Dr. Morton Herskowitz, 206
former protégé of Sigmund Freud, 205
Ken Noland’s interest in, 205
references to orgonomy and orgone therapy, 205–206
Robertson, Julius (Dovey Roundtree’s law partner): untimely death of, 93
Robeson, Alan (part of Ray Crump’s defense team): on Crump testifying at trial, 134
Ronsisvalle, Joseph (Park Service map maker), 116–117, 136
cross-examination of Dovey Roundtree, 116–117, 136
and exits from towpath, 116, 136
Rosenbaum, Ron (author), 70–76, 78, 84–85, 144, 155, 364–365, 367–370, 372–373, 432
and Anne Truitt’s phone call, 73–74, 76–77, 85
and Ben Bradlee, 70–77, 85, 364–365, 367, 370, 373
boasting of,
Cicely Angleton, 70–75, 370
“The Curious Aftermath of JFK’s Best and Brightest Affair” (1976), 70, 144, 432
diary (sketchbook) of Mary Meyer, 74–81, 85, 364
interviews conducted by, 70–71, 74–75, 144, 432
and James Angleton,70–71, 73–79, 85, 367–370
James Angleton’s hoodwinking of, 78, 367–368, 371
James Truitt, 70, 73–74, 364
and Kim Philby, 368–369
New Times (magazine), 70, 75
reference to Nina Burleigh, 71, 373
and reference to Timothy Leary, 373
and Scottie Fitzgerald Smith, 155
The Secret Parts of Fortune (2000), 372
Tony Bradlee, 70, 73–76, 78, 85, 367–368
Roselli, John (“Johnny”), 312, 386–387
and assassination of Fidel Castro, 386–387
and Joseph Shimon, 312, 386–387
and Mafia, 312, 386–387
Roundtree, Dovey (Ray Crump’s attorney), 26–27, 90–97, 99–104, 106–117, 119-140 267, 318, 320–321, 333–334, 336, 341, 365, 416
Alan Robeson, 134
author Katie McCabe, 444
born, 90
Allen Chapel AME Church, 90
Charles Duncan, 106–107
and Detective Bernie Crooke, 101–103
Eleanor Roosevelt, 92
George Knox, 134
and George Peter Lamb, 97, 99
and Howard University, 92