Lamar Waldron (born 1954)^[1] is an American writer and historian who often writes aboutconspiracies andcover-ups.

Waldron studied atGeorgia State University.^[2] He has two degrees from Georgia State, including a Masters in Counseling/Psychology.^{[citation needed]}

Waldron was co-founder and long-time organizer of theAtlanta Fantasy Fair, an annual trade show devoted tocomic books andscience fiction/fantasyfandom, from 1975 to 1987. During this period he edited and publishedVisions, 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 asFictioneer Books,Disney, andDark Horse Comics. In 1983Starblaze Graphics publishedLightrunner, an "epic science fiction adventure" written by Waldron and illustrated byRod Whigham. Waldron was the writer of the Fictioneer seriesM.I.C.R.A.: Mind Controlled Remote Automaton, which ran 7 issues from 1986 to 1988.

Among the topics Waldron has written about are the assassinations ofJohn F. Kennedy,Martin Luther King, Jr., andRobert F. Kennedy; the United States' plans to overthrow orassassinate Cuban leaderFidel Castro; and theWatergate scandal.

Waldron partnered with radio talk show hostThom Hartmann to produce the 2005 bookUltimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK.^[3] 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 byWarner Brothers, starringLeonardo DiCaprio, slated for release in the near future. In a review forVanity Fair,Rob Sheffield 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."^[4]The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination, an updated and abridged version ofLegacy of Secrecy, was published in 2013 byCounterpoint.^[5]

In 2012, Counterpoint published Waldron'sWatergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA.^[6] The book states the "driving force" responsible for theCentral Intelligence Agency—Mafiaassassination attempts on Fidel Castro in 1959-1960 wasRichard Nixon, thenVice President of the United States.^[6] According to Waldron, Nixon launched the Watergate break-ins to find adossier that could expose the assassination plots.^[6]Publishers Weekly writes: "One vast conspiracy begets another in this meticulous but unconvincing theory of the Watergate scandal."^[6]

• Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK, withThom Hartmann. New York:Carroll & Graf (2005).ISBN 978-1-84529-338-3.
• Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, withThom Hartmann. Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint (2009).ISBN 978-1-58243-535-0.
• The Hidden History Of The JFK Assassination. Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint (2013).ISBN 978-1-61902-261-4.
• Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA. Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint (2020).ISBN 978-1-58243-813-9.