14 Facts About James Truitt

James Truitt later became the vice president of Newsweek magazine.

James Truitt is known for being quoted by the National Enquirer in 1976 as alleging that Mary Pinchot Meyer, the ex-wife of Cord Meyer, had a two-year affair with John F Kennedy.

James Truitt served as a Naval officer in the Pacific theatre of World War II, then returned to work for the US State Department.

James Truitt married his first wife, the sculptor Anne Truitt, in September 1947 in Washington, DC In spring 1948 he went to work for Life magazine in New York, then became their Washington correspondent.

James Truitt spent three years with Life in San Francisco, then he returned to Washington, DC, in May 1960 to become the personal assistant to Philip Graham at the Washington Post, where he rose to become vice president.

James Truitt worked for Time, served as publisher of Art News, and became vice president of Newsweek in 1964.

Later in 1963, James Truitt left the Post and moved to Tokyo as the Japan bureau chief for Newsweek.

The March 2,1976, issue of the National Enquirer quoted Truitt as stating Mary Pinchot Meyer, the ex-wife of Cord Meyer, had a two-year affair with John F Kennedy and that they smoked marijuana in a White House bedroom.

James Truitt stated that Meyer and Kennedy regularly met in that manner, sometimes two or three times each week, until his assassination.

James Truitt said the two would "usually have drinks or dinner alone or sometimes with one of the aides", and claimed that Meyer offered marijuana cigarettes to Kennedy after one such meeting on April 16,1962.

James Truitt acknowledged that he received payment from the Enquirer, but did not disclose the amount of payment.

James Truitt accepted a settlement in exchange for a signed statement that he would not write anything that was "in any way derogatory" of the Washington Post.

James Truitt committed suicide on November 18,1981, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

James Truitt had been described by his first wife, Anne, as being "so ill".