Murder In Lance Morrow's 'Woman, Interrupted'

Mary Meyer’s murder has remained unsolved for almost half a century. On a fall day in 1964, Mary, best known for her affair with John F. Kennedy, was murdered in a Washington DC neighborhood, Georgetown. In Lance Morrow’s, “Woman, Interrupted”, he describes the first-hand account of the murder scene and offers two possible theories of why Mary was murdered. He also provides insight to some of the most powerful women in Washington.
Lance, a young reporter for the Washington Star, heard the call about a homicide over the police scanner at the C&O canal in Georgetown. When Lance arrived, he traveled through a hidden canal to approach the body of Mary Meyer. She left for her routine walk, but now she was motionless with a gunshot wound to the head. Morrow remained there until the police finally arrived at the scene and asked him to leave. …show more content…
It proved that suppressing women’s right in Washington had existed prior to Kay Graham pointing issues out. Cissy was also an editor, who was unorthodox and reckless. Cissy pointed out that men thought women editors could not do their jobs and shocked that they were able to perform the job.
Women of this era, like Morrow’s mother or Mary Meyer or Cissy Patterson, liked the shock that they evoked on men. They knew how to use their sexual prowess. Women of this era were dramatically different than ones that later appeared in Washington. Hillary Clinton or Condeleeza Rice were more like their political male counterparts boring and persistent. Sarah Palin on the other hand was far from that.
Morrow’s mother, Elise Morrow, wrote the “Capital Capers” that embodied ladies’ gossip and men’s talks of wars and politics. She had the upmost respect for Cissy Patterson but disagreed with some of Cissy’s views. Elise could drink with the best of them and had a vulgar mouth that could command notice to people such as Lyndon Johnson and Richard