Along C&O Canal, Slain JFK Lover Remembered

A MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL to a former love interest of President John F. Kennedy has gone up at the spot along the C&O Canal towpath where she was mysteriously shot and killed in 1964. As The Post's Reliable Source reports this morning, a jogger came across the white wooden cross on Sunday.

The memorial includes a photocopy of an image of Mary Pinchot Meyer and the words "cherries in the snow." Meyer's death sparked numerous conspiracy theories — her ex-husband was a top CIA official — and plenty of intrigue over the years.

In accordance with National Park Service policies, such makeshift memorials are usually disposed of.

» "Resurrecting Memories of JFK's Slain Mistress" [Reliable Source/WaPo]

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