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Judith Exner (January 11, 1934 – September 24, 1999) was an American woman who claimed to be the mistress of U.S. Senator, then U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Mafia leaders Sam Giancana and John Roselli. Several aspects of her claim of having known Kennedy have been verified by documents, phone records, and testimony.
- The Early Life of Socialite Judith Exner
- Tragedy Strikes
- Judith Campbell Exner’s Later Years and Notoriety
Judith Exner was bornin 1935 to a well-off family and raised in the wealthy neighborhoods of the Pacific Palisades, California. Exner’s father was an architect and a good enough one that the family shared a street with Bob Hope. At the age of 18, Judith Exner became Judith Campbell when she married actor William Campbell, whom she met while partyin...
The relationship between Judith Campbell Exner and John F. Kennedy grew strained as the FBI began to sniff around their dealings with the mob. Exner realized that she was being followed. Acting FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was on assignment by Kennedy’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy, attorney general, to clamp down on organized crime. It’s not really ...
No one knew of Exner’s role in the Kennedy affair until this time. That was when a Senate committee demanded to know her role in certain covert operations involving the White House as they had White House phone logs revealing her contact with the president. She told the committee she had an extramarital affair with Kennedy. She also said that she h...
- William Delong
Sep 19, 2017 · Judith Exner famously had a 2½-year affair with JFK, ending in 1962 – just one year before his assassination in Dallas.
- Lindsay Kimble
Judith Campbell Exner, the Los Angeles socialite whose affair with President John F. Kennedy embroiled her in decades of vilification as the first to shatter the Camelot myth, has died.
Sep 19, 2017 · The Truth Behind JFK's Mobbed Up Mistress — and What She Might Have Known About the Assassination. Judith Exner wrote a 1977 memoir, My Story, with journalist Ovid Demaris, documenting her...
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- Lindsay Kimble
Nov 21, 2013 · Exner died in 1999. I was invited by her family, her friends and her gallant lawyer, Mark Allen, to join them as they scattered her ashes at sea, off Newport Beach.
Mar 1, 1998 · Who was endangering her, she wondered, and who was protecting her? When she had a child out of wedlock in 1965, she gave him up for adoption. How could she look out for him if she couldn’t look...