Landmark
Georgetown
Historic riverside neighborhood of cobblestone streets, Federal rowhouses and a quiet canal towpath threading past old stone locks.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Georgetown in Washington, D.C. turns on midday, October 12, 1964, when a mechanic on Canal Road heard a scream and two gunshots near the old stone locks of the C&O Canal towpath. The victim was Mary Pinchot Meyer, a Georgetown painter and, friends whispered, a former lover of President Kennedy. A laborer named Ray Crump was arrested and tried nearby, though no gun was ever found. The towpath below the locks still runs quiet beneath the trees.
This audio guide was created using AI.