Editing Judith Exner (section)

=== Church Committee ===
Exner received additional media attention on a national level when she testified in 1975 before the [[Church Committee]] investigating CIA assassination attempts on [[Fidel Castro]].<ref name="ARRB">{{cite book |author=Assassination Records Review Board |author-link1=Assassination Records Review Board |title=Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/review-board/report/arrb-final-report.pdf |access-date=May 15, 2013 |date=September 30, 1998 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |page=109 |chapter=Chapter 6, Part I: The Quest for Additional Information and Records in Federal Government Offices}}</ref> Roselli testified to the committee about Mafia involvement in the CIA attempt on Castro's life.<ref name="O'Brien" /> When the Church Committee report was released in December 1975, it said that a "close friend" of President Kennedy had also been a close friend of mobsters John Roselli and Sam Giancana."<ref name="O'Brien" /> Campbell's identity as the close friend was leaked to ''The Washington Post'', which publicized it.<ref name="O'Brien" /> [[William Safire]] in ''[[The New York Times]]'' also published it.<ref name="'70s">Frum, David (2000), ''How We Got Here: The '70s'', Basic Books, New York, New York, p. 28. {{ISBN|0-465-04195-7}}. Note: Frum's account of Safire being the first to print her name in connection to the Church Committee was contradicted by O'Brien, who said it was leaked to ''The Washington Post''.</ref> The Committee had sent Exner a [[subpoena]] to make her testify. By then, married to Dan Exner, Judith Exner called a press conference that month and denied any knowledge of Mafia involvement with Kennedy. Exner may have changed certain aspects of how she told her story largely in the interest of her own safety and security and that of her family, and to protect the reputation of certain individuals whose reputations were at risk as a result of the intense media and public attention being focused on them, and not because her story was inherently fictitious, dishonest, or fabricated.{{cn|date=May 2024}}