This is the Tom Hartman program.

Tom Hartman here with you and on the line with us is Lamar Waldron.

Today would have been the 102nd birthday of President John Kennedy so we're

going to talk about his life and the tragic consequences of his death and how

Attorney General William Barr has played a role in keeping thousands, maybe even millions of records about

JFK's murder from Congress and the American public.

Lamar is my old friend and collaborator.

We worked together on two books about JFK's

and legacy of secrecy

Lamar's latest book the hidden history of the JFK assassination

Lamar welcome back

great to be with you again Tom

thank you Lamar

let's first talk about who killed JFK and why.

Great. That will help lay the ground for the bar material to come. And again, you know, today

it would have been JFK's 102nd birthday, but it is important to stress, as you and I discovered in our many decades of research,

JFK's death was not some abstract thing that just happened to him.

It was a direct result of his life, particularly his pursuit of organized crime,

that he began even before he became president, back when he was a senator and his brother Robert Kennedy

was the council of a Senate committee that looked into the ties between Jimmy Hoffa, an organized crime,

and then it done deeply into organized crime, going after top

godfathers, causing one of them to run down to Cuba to hide out there.

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