Never knew they died on the same day. That's interesting enough as a standalone fact, but also given the JFK and Timothy Leary connection.

We always hear about Marilyn and JFK, but it seems like Mary Pinchot tends to get swept under the rug.

She was an artist and the ex-wife of a CIA big wig who had an affair with JFK. She almost certainly smoked weed with him at the White House, and her friend Timothy Leary (along with the CIA's counterintelligence chief, James Angleton) claimed she also got JFK to take acid at one point.

JFK actually taking acid is unverified, but Leary alleged that Pinchot's influence on JFK was making him less willing to back war hungry policies of some very powerful men in the U.S. government, and that as a result, he became a bit of a thorn in their side. He also claimed that the day JFK was assassinated, Pinchot called him and said "he was changing too quickly."

About a year after JFK's assassination, Pinchot was killed in a still unsolved murder, and shortly after her murder, her sister and brother in law claimed they found James Angleton breaking into her home to steal her diary.

https://archive.is/2021.04.29-040456/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1998/10/11/the-woman-who-knew-too-much/47b45afd-5676-47d4-b035-56287b129d07/