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Marriage and family. In 1952, at the age of 18, Judith married actor William Campbell; they divorced in 1958. [3] Exner was not the first or only party to claim she had a relationship with President John Kennedy.
- 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
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 · Judith Exner famously had a 2½-year affair with JFK, ending in 1962 – just one year before his assassination in Dallas.
- Lindsay Kimble
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
Sep 27, 1999 · Judith Campbell Exner, who asserted in a 1988 interview in People magazine that she had been having an affair with John F. Kennedy when he was elected President, died late Friday at the City...
Mar 1, 1998 · She divorced at 25 and moved among the moneyed and famous, unawed by either. Frank Sinatra, she says, introduced her to Sen. John F. Kennedy and later to a polite older man named Sam.