Ultimate Sacrifice; John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK

New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005. First Carroll & Graf Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [8], 904 pages. Minor bottom edge soiling. Includes Introduction, Photo and Document Appendices, Endnotes, Index, and Acknowledgments. Lamar Waldron (born 1954) is an American writer and historian. Among the topics Waldron has written about are the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy; the United States' plans to overthrow or assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro; and the Watergate scandal. Waldron partnered with radio talk show host Thom Hartmann to produce the 2005 book Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK. The research for the book extended over a 20-year period. Thomas Carl Hartmann (born May 7, 1951) is an American radio personality, author, former psychotherapist, businessman, and progressive political commentator. Hartmann has been hosting a nationally syndicated radio show, The Thom Hartmann Program, since 2003 and hosted a nightly television show, The Big Picture, between 2010 and September 2017. Hartmann was an entrepreneur, writer, and humanitarian for nearly three decades. Hartmann has written many books on politics and psychology. This book reveals a previously unknown "Plan for a Coup in Cuba," authorized by John Kennedy and run by the President's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The CIA's code name for their supporting role in the coup plan--AMWORLD--has never previously surfaced in any book, article, or government investigation, consistent with one of the most secret covert operations in U.S. history. A plan as audacious as this engineered coup and its follow-up invasion by "invited" U.S. forces would have been a severe threat to national security if revealed in the post-Cuban Missile Crisis environment. When Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, and Johnny Roselli--three powerful Maria dons who would have gone to any lengths to rid themselves of what they saw to be persecution by the mob-busting Attorney General--learned of this plan, they realized that the government would go to equally audacious lengths in order to avoid revealing it to the public. With that knowledge to protect them, the seeds of a President's demise were sown. Drawing on years of research, thousands of recently declassified files, and dozens of interviews, Ultimate Sacrifice re-creates and, in many ways, rewrites the crucial period of our history leading up to November 22 1923. In the process, this groundbreaking account provides the missing pieces to the greatest tragic puzzle of post-war America: the true circumstances behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Ultimate Sacrifice details a previously unknown "Plan for a Coup in Cuba" authorized by President John Kennedy, run by Attorney General Robert Kennedy and set for December 1, 1963; The Kennedy plan, unique and different from ant previously disclosed operation, was as detailed in a Joint Chiefs of Staff memo to have included a palace coup, a provisional Cuban government and, if necessary, a full-scale invasion by "invited" US military force; The CIA's code name for their part of the operation, AMWORLD, has never previously surfaced in any government investigation, nor in any book or article, making it one of the most covert operations in United States history; Ultimate Sacrifice will detail how the Kennedy plan was penetrated by three mafia godfathers Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, and Johnny Roselli who were being vigorously pursued by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, along with a dozen of their associates, six of whom were also working on the Coup plan: The crime bosses then used parts of the Coup Plan/AMWORLD to arrange JFK's assassination in a way that would prevent a truly thorough government investigation in order to protect the Coup Plan, its participants, and national security; By using the secrecy surrounding the Plan, the mob bosses would target JFK not only in Dallas but in two earlier attempts, one in Chicago on November 1 and them one in Tampa on November 18, which Ultimate Sacrifice reveals for the first time in any book; Ultimate Sacrifice has finally pieced together the whole story by building on the work of the seven governmental committees that have investigated aspects of the assassination, on the work of former government investigators, and on the four million documents that were declassified in the 1990s, in addition to exclusive interviews with dozens of witnesses and participants including Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, and the Kennedys' closest Cuban exile aide, Harry "Ruiz" Williams.