MRS. KENNEDY'S FRIEND SLAIN IN WASHINGTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200320017-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 14, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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HERALD TRIBUNE
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CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
,"Mrs. Kennedy's
:}'riend. Slain'
;~Jn Washington
WASHINGTON (AP).
Pinchot Meyer was shot to
death as she took a sunny -Monday afternoon walk along'
the path of an old canal
where she often had strolled
Mrs: John F. Xennedy.
Mrs. Meyer who would
have been 44 today, was a
i-niece of Gifford Pinchot,
progressive conservationist
And: two-term Governor of t f
Pennsylvania, and the daugli-
ter of Amos Pinchot, a Herald Tribune-UPI telephoto
founder of the Bull Moose SLAYING VICTIM-Mrs.'
party. Robbery apparently Nary Pinchot Meyer.
f was the motive in her slaying,
police said. A native of New York City
Within an hour, Raymond
Crump Jr., a 25-year-old and a graduate of Vassar
"Washington laborer recently College, Mrs. Meyer was the
released from a 60-day prison former wife of Cord Meyer
term for petty larceny, was Jr., a writer employed by the'
arrested and charged with the . Central Intelligence Agency.
slaying. A father of five, lie An abstract painter, Mrs.
denied any part in the shoot- Meyer's work has been ex
; ing. , ' hibited In several WashingtonF
At his arraignment Crump ' galleries. The Meyers had
t said. "I was down there fish- two sons, Quentin, 18, who'
j, Ing and lost my rod. I don't attends the Salisbury School.
know what happened myself. in Salisbury, Conn? 'and.
I almost got shot myself." lHe Mark, 14, a student at the'
. was , held without bail.' Milton Academy near Boston,.
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