Never-before-seen letter from JFK to his mistress
To outsiders, it always seemed as though President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy had the perfect marriage, but a newly surfaced love letter from the late President to his alleged mistress Mary Pinchot Meyer has brought their relationship into question.
Written in October 1963 on White House stationery, the letter reads: “Why don't you leave suburbia for once — come and see me — either here — or at the Cape next week or in Boston the 19th. I know it is unwise, irrational, and that you may hate it — on the other hand you may not — and I will love it. You say that it is good for me not to get what I want. After all of these years — you should give me a more loving answer than that. Why don't you just say yes.”
The Auction house selling the letter – expected to go for more than US$30,000 – says JFK was in fact in Boston on that date for a party fundraiser. Interestingly, the letter was never sent.
JFK first met Meyer in high school and the two reconnected in 1954 when the President and First Lady moved closer to Meyer and her husband. In a strange coincidence, Meyer was murdered just a year after Kennedy’s assassination.
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