FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE MAKES NEWS WITH
THE KENNEDYS’ 12/1/63 CUBA COUP PLAN AS THE
42nd ANNIVERSARY OF JFK ASSASSINATION APPROACHES
NEW HISTORY REVEALS PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN KENNEDY INVASION
PLAN— CIA CODE NAME, AMWORLD—AS WELL AS LINKED
TAMPA ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
“At last the mysteries surrounding JFK’s death are fully explained by the startling revelations in this book. Its fresh,
groundbreaking research documents how the blow-back from the Kennedys’ actions against the Mafia and Cuba led to the
death of JFK. ULTIMATE SACRIFICE provides the final word on why the government had to cover up so much information for
so long.”
-William W. Turner, former FBI Agent and author of Deadly Secrets
"How well do the authors make their case? With a relentless accumulation of detail, a very thorough knowledge of every
political and forensic detail and the broad perspective of historians rather than assassination theorists....no future
historian of that tormented period in American history will be able to ignore their very convincing presentation.
--Publishers Weekly (November 10, 2005)
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK (Carroll & Graf, November 18, 2005) by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann provides the missing piece to one of the great puzzles of
post-war America: the truth behind the events surrounding John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963.
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ULTIMATE SACRIFICE 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. And with that secrecy came
tragedy. A plan as audacious as this engineered coup and its follow-up invasion by “invited” US forces, would have been
a severe threat to national security if revealed in the post-Cuban Missile Crisis environment. And when Carlos Marcello,
Santo Trafficante, and Johnny
Roselli—three powerful Mafia 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 seventeen 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, 1963
*ULTIMATE SACRIFICE details a previously unknown "Plan for a Coup in Cuba" authorized by President John Kennedy, run by
Robert Kennedy and set for December 1, 1963
* The Kennedy plan, unique and different from any 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 forces.
*The CIA's code name for their part of the operation, AMWORLD, has never previously appeared, making it one of the most
covert operations in United States history.
*ULTIMATE SACRIFICE will detail how the Kennedy plan was penetrated by the three mafia godfathers--Carlos Marcello,
Santo Trafficante and Johnny Roselli—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 2 and then one in Tampa on November 18, which ULTIMATE SACRIFICE reveals and
details for the first time.
*ULTIMATE SACRIFICE reveals why Robert Kennedy told several close associates the name of the Mafia godfather who had his
brother killed—but couldn’t do anything about it.
*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 labors 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.
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Seventeen years in the making, ULTIMATE SACRIFICE is a landmark in historical research, compilation, and reporting,
meticulously assembling all of the formerly out-of-reach or concealed pieces, to explain for the first time, the full
and detailed context which gave rise to the Kennedy assassination. In doing so, authors Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann
not only shed new light on one of the most tumultuous eras in modern American history, but definitively solve the
mystery of its greatest political tragedy.
About the authors:
Lamar Waldron’s groundbreaking research has been cited in media outlets ranging from Vanity Fair and The New Republic to
the History Channel and USA Today. His work has been acknowledged by authors such as Anthony Summers and Gus Russo,
historians like Dr. John Newman and John H. Davis, and former government investigators Gaeton Fonzi and FBI veteran
William Turner. Waldron received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Georgia State University and lives in
Atlanta.
Thom Hartmann is the award-winning, best-selling author of fourteen books currently in print in over a dozen languages.
An internationally known speaker, his most recent books are The Edison Gene, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Unequal
Protection, We the People: A Call to Take Back America, and What Would Jefferson Do? His nationally syndicated radio
show is currently on Air America and Sirius Satellite Radio.
Please visit www.ultimatesacrificethebook.com for more exclusive documents, photographs and other supporting materials.
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE:
John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK
Carroll & Graf, November 18, 2005
by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann
912 Pages (including photographs and reproduced documents): $33: isbn: 0-7867-1441-7