Lamar Waldron (born 1954) is an American writer and historian who often writes about

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and

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Education

Waldron studied at

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. He has two degrees from Georgia State, including a Masters in Counseling/Psychology.

Writer

Comic books

Waldron was co-founder and long-time organizer of the

Atlanta Fantasy Fair The Atlanta Fantasy Fair (AFF) was a multigenre convention which took place once each summer in Atlanta, Georgia from 1975 to 1995. Organized by A.C.F.F., Ltd., the convention was a nonprofit entity designed to promote the fantasy genre in the A ...

, an annual trade show devoted to

comic books A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...

and

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy ...

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, from 1975–1987. During this period he edited and published ''Visions'', the official program booklet of the AFF, which also contained original interviews and comics. Throughout the 1980s and a good portion of the 1990s, Waldron wrote stories in the comics field, for such publishers as

Fictioneer Books David Anthony Kraft (May 31, 1952 – May 19, 2021) was an American comic book writer, publisher, and critic. He was primarily known for his long-running journal of interviews and criticism, ''Comics Interview'', as well as for work for Marvel C ...

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, and

Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, and manga publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon by Mike Richardson in 1986. The company was created using funds earned from Richardson's chain of Portland, Oregon comic book shops known ...

. In 1983

Starblaze Graphics Starblaze Graphics was an imprint of The Donning Company, a publishing company established in 1978 to publish illustrated books in the United States. Notable Starblaze publications include Robert Asprin's ''MythAdventures'' series, as well as two t ...

published ''Lightrunner'', an "epic science fiction adventure" written by Waldron and illustrated by Rod Whigham. Waldron was the writer of the Fictioneer series ''M.I.C.R.A.: Mind Controlled Remote Automaton'', which ran 7 issues from 1986–1988.

Nonfiction writing

Among the topics Waldron has written about are the assassinations of

John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination i ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...

, and

Robert F. Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, a ...

; the United States' plans to overthrow or

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Cuban leader

Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; ; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 200 ...

; and the

Watergate scandal The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continual ...

. Waldron partnered with radio talk show host

Thom Hartmann 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 Pro ...

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. Waldron kept the partnership with Hartmann and extended their 2005 work in a new volume using many sources which had recently been declassified. This 2008 book (2009 trade paperback even more extensive), ''Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination'', is currently being made into a movie by

Warner Brothers Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American Film studio, film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, Califo ...

, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, slated for release in the near future. In a review for '' Vanity Fair'',

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wrote: "The book gets infinitely more chaotic when it moves on to the Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations, trying to make all the pieces fit together into a theory of everything. You really have to use the index and jump around from chapter to chapter to follow the plot, checking the 2,000 end notes along the way." ''The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination'', an updated and abridged version of ''Legacy of Secrecy'', was published in 2013 by

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. In 2012, Counterpoint published Waldron's ''Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA''. The book states the "driving force" responsible for the

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—

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assassination attempts on Fidel Castro The United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) made numerous unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who led from 1959 to 2008. Cuban exiles also attempted to assassinate Castro, sometimes in cooperation with the CI ...

in 1959-1960 was

Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...

, then

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. According to Waldron, Nixon launched the Watergate break-ins to find a

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that could expose the assassination plots. According to

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: "One vast conspiracy begets another in this meticulous but unconvincing theory of the Watergate scandal."

Selected bibliography

* ''Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK'', by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann, 2005, Carroll & Graf, . * ''Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination'', by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann, trade paperback edition, 2009,

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, Counterpoint publishers, . * ''Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA'', by Lamar Waldron, 2012, Berkeley, California, Counterpoint publishers, .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Waldron, Lamar 1954 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Georgia State University alumni Historians of the United States Non-fiction writers about organized crime in the United States Researchers of the assassination of John F. Kennedy Watergate scandal investigators American male non-fiction writers