Jones Harris

Miss Heidi Vanderbilt, daughter of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Mrs. Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt, was married last Sunday to Jones Harris, son of Ruth Gordon, the actress, and Jed Harris, the theatrical producer. Supreme Court Justice Theodore R. Kupferman officiated at the home in Oyster Bay of the bride's father and step mother, the former Jean Harvey.

Miss Melanie Adler was maid of honor for the bride, who was attended also by her half‐sister, Victoria Vanderbilt. The best man was Nicholas Vanderbilt, 13‐year‐ old half‐brother of the bride.

Wedding guests, mostly family, included the bride's parents; the bridegroom's mother and stepfather, Garson Kanin, the playwright; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., brother and sister‐in‐law of the bride; Mrs. Orin Lehman, the former Wendy Vanderbilt, half sister of the bride, and Mr. Lehman; and Thornton Wilder, the author and play wright.

The bride, who is 23 years old, met her husband at a luncheon at her father's home when she was 15. In 1965 she made her Broadway debut as Heidi Murray in “A Very Rich Woman,” written and starring Miss Gordon.

Mr. Harris, an occasional theatrical producer in his own right, describes himself as a freelance researcher. He was graduated from the Friends School here and attended Brandeis University.

The bride, who has given up the stage for photography, attends the Columbia University School of General Studies. She is a former student at the Spence School, the Lycée Francais de New York and the Professional Children's School here.

Her father, the sportsman and race‐horse owner, is chairman of the board of the New York Racing Association. Her mother is a production assistant for “The David Frost Show.”

NEW YORK TIMES OCT. 28, 1971

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Noted Kennedy Assassination conspiracy theorist. Excerpted from the Kennedy Assassination Home Page, hosted by Marquette University:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/bethell.htm

My most vivid recollection of Jones Harris is that he always wore a straw hat. Even indoors he seemed to prefer to keep it on. That and the fact that he never would write anything down on paper. On that score, I remember D.A. Jim Garrison, my boss, once saying that we didn't even have a sample of Jones' handwriting.

This disinclination on Jones' part to write anything down was most uncharacteristic of conspiratorialists -- a deliberately convoluted word I have coined -- most of whom, were, as far as I could tell, highly prolific memo and letter writers. And working for Jim Garrison, as I then was, on his ill-fated Kennedy assassination investigation, I met most of the conspiratorialists of those years. Jones Harris was one who remains in my mind...

...Jones Harris, the son of Broadway producer Jed Harris and actress Ruth Gordon, seemed to know personally everyone you had ever heard of in New York, and it was through him that, in swift succession, I had lunch with New York Review editor Robert Silvers, dinner with Norman Mailer, and tea with Lady Jean Campbell, Lord Beaverbrook's granddaughter and Norman Mailer's third wife. Later I read in The New York Times that Jones married a Vanderbilt and at the reception described himself to a Times reporter as a "freelance researcher." That is exactly what he was when I first met him.

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