Legacy of Secrecy

The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination

By: Lamar Waldron

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 35 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Updated with dramatic new revelations!

John F. Kennedy’s assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers. It also launched a flurry of covert actions by Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, and other top officials to hide the fact that in November 1963 the United States was on the brink of invading Cuba, as part of a JFK-authorized coup. The plan’s exposure could have led to a nuclear confrontation with Russia, but the cover-up prevented a full investigation into Kennedy’s assassination, a legacy of secrecy that would impact American politics and foreign policy for the next 45 years. It also allowed two men who confessed their roles in JFK’s murder to be involved in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. Exclusive interviews and newly declassified files from the National Archives document in chilling detail how three Mob bosses were able to prevent the truth from coming to light - until now.

With three new chapters and updated text throughout, this is a must-have edition. New material includes the completed story of how three powerful Mafia bosses used John and Robert Kennedy’s top-secret plan of staging a coup against Fidel Castro to murder JFK. Documented from the National Archives for the first time is Watergate burglar Bernard Barker’s decades-long work for the Mafia, even Barker’s time aiding the CIA with the coup plan. Barker sold out the coup plan to his Mob bosses helping to assassinate JFK, and forcing US officials previously involved with Barker to withhold key information from the Warren Commission. This version also contains important new information about the FBI informant who obtained the JFK assassination confession of godfather Carlos Marcello, which the Bureau kept secret for 20 years.

©2009 Lamar Waldron (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“I believe Waldron’s heavy-to-lift book is actually all but the last word on these troubling assassinations which have been so wildly speculated about since 1963…Lamar Waldron, indefatigable public servant and author, deserves his own Pulitzer Prize for his great work.” (Liz Smith, New York Post)

AMAZING

I am so pleased to have listened to this book. I learned many things that I hadn't known before. Thanks.

JFK, Bobby, MLK

It was a major eye-opener for me. I was sixteen and right in front of Hammersmith Farm when I heard that his motorcade had been “shot at.” By the time we got back into town (Newport), he was dead. We had just seen him that fall. There is not one person in America, white, black, young, old, who believed the Warren Report. We didn’t have a name for it at the time. Now we do. We were gaslit.

Waldron Cracks JFK/MLK/RFK code

Finally, full and plausible explanations for the three assassinations that defined modern American history. It’s a complicated story but compellingly told. Highly recommended.

thorough intriguing comprehensive Listen to it

well put together and very comprehensive. narrator is excellent. obviously extensively researched with numerous details I was not aware of. connectivity is plainly described and really helps us comprehend a total picture.

The details

A little long winded in spots but overall I enjoyed the reading and thought it was a good narrative

Couldn't get through it!

Would you try another book from Lamar Waldron and/or Tom Weiner?

I doubt it

What didn’t you like about Tom Weiner’s performance?

It was read to fast. Way to many characters

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment

Any additional comments?

Read the prequel maybe will help