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Judith Exner (January 11, 1934 – September 24, 1999) was an American woman who was a mistress of U.S. Senator, then U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Mafia leaders Sam Giancana and John Roselli. Some aspects of her claim of having known Kennedy have been verified by documents, phone records, and testimony. She was also known as Judith Campbell Exner, and Judith Campbell.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.

Born into the prominent Kennedy family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1940, joining the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II, he commanded PT boats in the Pacific theater. Kennedy's survival following the sinking of PT-109 and his rescue of his fellow sailors made him a war hero and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, but left him with serious injuries. After a brief stint in journalism, Kennedy represented a working-class Boston district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate, serving as the junior senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, Kennedy published his book Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Kennedy ran in the 1960 presidential election. His campaign gained momentum after the first televised presidential debates in American history, and he was elected president, narrowly defeating Republican opponent Richard Nixon, the incumbent vice president.

Kennedy's presidency saw high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam, and the Strategic Hamlet Program began during his presidency. In 1961, he authorized attempts to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and Operation Mongoose. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba. The resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in nuclear war. In August 1961, after East German troops erected the Berlin Wall, Kennedy sent an army convoy to reassure West Berliners of U.S. support, and delivered one of his most famous speeches in West Berlin in June 1963. In 1963, Kennedy signed the first nuclear weapons treaty. He presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress with Latin America, and the continuation of the Apollo program with the goal of landing a man on the Moon before 1970. He supported the civil rights movement but was only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.

On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. His vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, assumed the presidency. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the assassination, but he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Warren Commission both concluded Oswald had acted alone, but conspiracy theories about the assassination persist. After Kennedy's death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Revenue Act of 1964. He ranks highly in polls of U.S. presidents with historians and the general public. His personal life has been the focus of considerable sustained interest following public revelations in the 1970s of his chronic health ailments and extramarital affairs. Kennedy is the most recent U.S. president to have died in office.

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Salvatore "Mooney" Giancana ( JEE-ahn-KAH-nə; born Gilormo Giangana, Italian: [dʒiˈlɔrmo dʒaŋˈɡaːna]; May 24, 1908 – June 19, 1975) was an American mobster who was boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 to 1966.

Giancana was born in Chicago to Italian immigrant parents. He joined the 42 Gang as a teenager, developing a reputation in organized crime, which gained him the notice of the leaders of the Chicago Outfit, which he joined during the late 1930s. From the 1940s through the 1950s, he controlled illegal gambling, illegal liquor distribution, and political rackets in Louisiana. In the early 1940s, Giancana was involved in a takeover of Chicago's black American lottery payout system for the Outfit. In 1957, he became the boss of the Chicago Outfit.

According to some sources, Giancana and the Mafia were involved in John F. Kennedy's victory in the 1960 presidential election. During the 1960s, he was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Conspiracy theorists consider Giancana, along with Mafia leaders Santo Trafficante Jr. and Carlos Marcello, to be associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In 1965, Giancana was convicted of contempt of court, serving one year in prison. After his release from prison, Giancana fled to Cuernavaca, Mexico. In 1974, he was deported to the United States, returning to Chicago. Giancana was murdered on June 19, 1975, at his home in Oak Park, Illinois, shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the Church Committee.

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Frank Sinatra, né le 12 décembre 1915 à Hoboken (New Jersey) et mort le 14 mai 1998 à Los Angeles (Californie) au centre médical Cedars-Sinaï, est un chanteur, acteur et producteur de musique américain.

Né de parents italiens (d'un père d'origine sicilienne et d'une mère originaire de Ligurie), Sinatra est l'une des figures majeures de la musique américaine. Crooner à la réputation mondiale, il est surnommé « The Voice » (« La Voix ») ou encore « le gangster d'Hoboken », en raison de ses liens avec la mafia.

C'est l'un des chanteurs les plus influents du XX^e siècle et sa popularité est comparable à celle de ses compatriotes comme Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby ou Michael Jackson. Le critique musical américain Robert Christgau le qualifie même de « plus grand chanteur du XX^e siècle ». Son répertoire comprend plus de 2 000 chansons pour environ 150 millions de disques vendus. Au cours de sa carrière, il a enregistré 59 albums studio.

Sa carrière débute à l'ère du swing, comme chanteur dans les orchestres de jazz de Harry James et Tommy Dorsey. Il connaît le succès dès 1943, après avoir signé chez Columbia Records. Devenu l'idole des bobby-soxers, il sort son premier album en 1946, The Voice of Frank Sinatra. En 1953, il remporte l'Oscar du meilleur second rôle pour son interprétation dans Tant qu'il y aura des hommes. La même année, il signe chez Capitol Records et enregistre plusieurs albums à succès (In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely et Nice 'n' Easy). En 1961, il fonde Reprise Records, son propre label, et effectue une tournée internationale. Membre fondateur du Rat Pack, aux côtés de Dean Martin et Sammy Davis Jr., il fréquente de nombreuses célébrités et hommes d'État, dont John F. Kennedy.

Dans les années 1960, il enregistre ses deux plus grands succès, Strangers in the Night (1966) et My Way (1969). Il prend une première fois sa retraite en 1971 après quelques albums et films sans succès, mais revient en 1973 et connait à nouveau la gloire en interprétant la chanson New York, New York, reprise de la bande originale du film homonyme de Martin Scorsese (la version originale étant interprétée par Liza Minnelli). Vivant à Las Vegas, où il se produit chaque soir dans les plus grands casinos, il réalise également de nombreuses tournées aux États-Unis et dans le reste du monde jusqu'en 1995. Durant sa carrière cinématographique, il a également été dirigé par certains des plus grands réalisateurs de l'âge d'or hollywoodien, dont Otto Preminger, John Huston, Frank Capra, Vincente Minnelli et Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Engagé en politique, il est un fervent soutien du Parti démocrate de 1944 à 1970, avant de soutenir le camp républicain et notamment son ami Ronald Reagan. Marié à quatre reprises, notamment avec les actrices Ava Gardner et Mia Farrow, il a trois enfants, dont la chanteuse Nancy Sinatra. Dans les années 1990, une enquête a montré que Sinatra avait eu des liens avec des pontes de la mafia italo-américaine tels que Carlo Gambino, Sam Giancana ou Lucky Luciano.

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