Judith Katherine Immoor Campbell Exner Timeline

Judith Katherine Immoor born in New York City.

Judith marries actor William Campbell. He is 25 years old; she is 18.

Judith and William Campbell are divorced.

Judith meets Frank Sinatra. She accepts his invitation to join him in Hawaii and they are intimate there. Sinatra’s entourage includes actor Peter Lawford and his wife, Patricia Kennedy.

Senator John F. Kennedy announces his run for the presidency.

Judith is introduced by Frank Sinatra to Senator John F. Kennedy at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. The singer is performing at his sold-out music and comedy “Summit” show. JFK is in Las Vegas making a campaign stop.

Judith and Senator Kennedy meet at the Plaza Hotel in New York City where they are intimate for the first time. He has just finished campaigning for the New Hampshire primary.

Judith is introduced by Frank Sinatra to Chicago gangster Sam Giancana (under the alias of “Sam Flood”) at a closing party for Sinatra’s show at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

Senator Kennedy’s victory in the Wisconsin primary fails to impress Democratic Party leaders or the media, who attribute it to Catholic voters in the state.

Judith meets Senator Kennedy at his Georgetown home in Washington, DC. Earlier that day he learned that his electoral prospects in the West Virginia primary were bleak. He asks Judith to carry a satchel of money to Sam Giancana in Chicago, telling her that “Sam” can help in the campaign. She agrees and delivers the money to Giancana in Chicago on April 8.

At Senator Kennedy’s request, Judith arranges a personal meeting between JFK and Sam Giancana at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

Senator Kennedy wins the West Virginia primary by a large margin amid reports that JFK allies spread huge amounts of cash across the state.

Judith meets Senator Kennedy during the Democratic Party presidential convention in Los Angeles. He tries to persuade her to engage in a ménage à trois, but she refuses.

Senator Kennedy wins the Democratic party nomination for the U.S. presidency.

Judith sees Senator Kennedy at the Navarro hotel in New York City. During this period, Judith arranges a meeting between Kennedy and Giancana in her room. Also, on another occasion, Kennedy drops off a satchel of cash, and on a subsequent day, Sam Giancana comes by to pick it up. Kennedy tells Judith it relates to the “campaign.”

Private investigator and CIA cutout Robert Maheu approaches Chicago mobster Johnny Rosselli in a plot to assassinate leader Fidel Castro.

Plotting to assassinate Castro begins in earnest in Miami Beach. The participants include the CIA, Maheu, Rosselli and Sam Giancana.

While plotting in Miami Beach, Giancana learns that his love interest, singer Phyllis McGuire, appears to be getting close to comedian Dan Rowan. Maheu then has the phone in Rowan’s hotel room wiretapped. Hotel detectives at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas discover the wiretapping, and a Miami private investigator is arrested. The FBI investigates the wiretap and learns about Maheu, Giancana and the CIA plotting against Castro.

John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States in a close election. JFK barely wins Illinois, aided by Chicago votes that Republicans claimed were stolen.

Judith is asked by JFK to carry intelligence material to Sam Giancana concerning the “elimination” of Fidel Castro.

John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States. Judith receives top-tier tickets to the inaugural events but decides not to attend.

Judith gets together with President Kennedy in Palm Beach, Florida.

CIA-sponsored exiles launch an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Castro regime, known as the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Judith arranges a brief meeting between President Kennedy and Giancana in her room at the Ambassador East Hotel in Chicago. The next day, Judith travels with Giancana to Miami Beach.

Judith visits the White House for the first time, seeing JFK briefly in the Cabinet Room to deliver material from Giancana and Rosselli.

Judith has an intimate afternoon with JFK. He gives her information to provide to Giancana and Rosselli. She flies to Chicago, where she meets with Giancana, then immediately to Las Vegas, where she meets with Rosselli.

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy receives a memorandum on the Las Vegas wiretapping investigation setting out that the CIA has been plotting with Sam Giancana in anti-Castro activities. RFK is informed that it involves “dirty business,” and the plotting may well pay off in the future. He does nothing to stop the plotting.

Judith meets with JFK at the White House. They quarrel, and she is upset when she leaves. Before the trip, she had arranged a meeting between JFK and Giancana for August 8. Giancana stops by her hotel and tells her the meeting took place.

Judith meets with JFK at the White House. He gives her a diamond and ruby brooch.

Judith continues her role as a go-between.

JFK speaks at a fundraising event in Los Angeles. Judith sits at the same table as JFK’s personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln. The next day, JFK visits her at her apartment.

Judith visits JFK in Palm Beach, Florida.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover learns of the JFK-Judith connection and that Judith has been in touch with Giancana and Rosselli. He notifies Attorney General RFK and presidential appointments secretary Kenneth O’Donnell in letters dated February 27. He receives no reply.

J. Edgar Hoover has a rare lunch with JFK. At the end of the meeting, while the two are alone, Hoover brings up Judith. An infuriated JFK calls Judith and tells her that her phone is not safe and to call from her mother’s. JFK is enraged with Hoover’s temerity, but he doesn’t mention breaking up to Judith. The relationship continues.

In Walter Winchell’s column of May 7, 1962, he writes “Judy Campbell of Palm Springs and BevHills is Topic No. 1 in Romantic Political Circles.”

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy receives a formal briefing on the CIA/Mafia plotting to assassinate Castro. He does not condemn the operation but asks the CIA not to use the Mafia in future Agency plotting without first advising him.

Judith is under intense investigation by the FBI. She continues to visit and contact Jack, but sees him less under the Bureau’s pressure and the strains of a secret, long-distance relationship.

She sees JFK for probably the last time – likely at the White House.

She tells JFK that she is pregnant. He tells her it can be arranged for her to keep the child, but she rejects that option. He then suggests that she seek Giancana’s help in obtaining an abortion. When Giancana agrees to help and even offers to marry her, Judith is touched. She and Giancana are intimate for the only time.

Giancana arranges for the then-illegal procedure at Grant Hospital in Chicago.

Judith and JFK occasionally talk on the phone but don’t get together. The last recorded call on the White House phone logs is in June 1963, about the time the President was visiting California.

JFK is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Judith calls Evelyn Lincoln the next day to condole.

Rough FBI surveillance tactics contribute to Judith’s having a severe arthritic attack. She is hospitalized for several weeks.

Judith dates a movie producer and becomes pregnant. She decides to keep the child.

After two FBI agents come to interview her at her parents’ house, Judith attempts suicide by taking sleeping pills. Her attempt is discovered while she is still alive, and she recovers.

Judith has a baby boy, who she turns over to out-of-town relatives to provide care. About a year later, she gives him up for anonymous adoption.

She is contacted by Johnny Rosselli, who occasionally takes her out. He hopes to use her for leverage in ongoing criminal prosecutions by the federal government.

Rosselli is convicted in separate gambling and immigration cases.

Johnny Rosselli enters prison. Judith’s mother dies on April 7.

She meets Daniel Exner, the son of a local physician, at a deli that he runs in Southern California. They move in together.

Judith’s father dies.

Judith weds Daniel R. Exner.

Sam Giancana is found shot to death in the basement of his home in Oak Park, Illinois.

A Senate investigator for the Church Committee appears at Judith’s sister’s house, seeking Judith’s testimony concerning the CIA/Mafia plots against Castro.

Judith secretly appears before the Church Committee staff. She admits a relationship with JFK but denies being a go-between to Giancana and Rosselli.

Judith’s name is leaked to the Washington Post. She appears in a page 6 article entitled “Probers Doubt Kennedy Knew of Poison Plot Against Castro.”

The Church Committee issues the report “Alleged Assassination Plots Against Foreign Leaders.” Judith is referred to as a “close friend of President Kennedy” who was also in touch with her “close friend(s)” Sam Giancana and Johnny Rosselli.

The Scripps-Howard newspapers publish several stories about the JFK-Campbell-Mafia-CIA angle, but they attract limited attention.

New York Times columnist William Safire charges a Church Committee coverup about Judith. It receives wide attention, and Judith is besieged by reporters.

Judith holds a hastily arranged press conference in San Diego where she states that she had a close personal relationship with JFK but denies being a go-between. She leaves open the possibility of future disclosures.

Johnny Rosselli disappears. Ten days later his mutilated body is found in an oil barrel floating in Dumbfoundling Bay in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Hardcover and paperback versions of My Story are published by Grove Press. Judith’s “as told to” account by author Ovid Demaris sells respectably (40,000 hardcover and over 100,000 paperback), but only after over 50 publishers had turned it down. She details her affair with JFK but again denies being a go-between.

Judith learns that she has breast cancer. The House Select Committee on Assassinations attempts to serve a subpoena on her on the first day of her chemotherapy. Before securing her testimony, the Committee disbands.

Judith and Dan separate.

In a People magazine article under the byline of Kitty Kelley, Judith discloses she had been JFK’s go-between to organized crime, as Church Committee staffers had suspected. Kelley’s interview with Judith had been terminated early due to a disagreement.

In a Vanity Fair magazine article under the byline of Gerri Hirshey, Judith relates that the son she had given up for adoption had tracked her down and they have had a joyous reunion.

In a 3-part series published in the New York Daily News and London Times under the byline of Anthony Summers, Judith reveals that JFK had also used her as a go-between to Giancana in connection with the 1960 presidential election. She stated that she had set up personal meetings and helped transfer cash between the candidate and the mobster.

In a Vanity Fair article under the byline of Liz Smith, Judith reveals that she had become pregnant by JFK and that Sam Giancana had arranged an abortion at Grant Hospital in Chicago.

Judith dies of breast cancer at the City of Hope Hospital in Duarte, California.