Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann       (author, radio host)
Born	Thomas Carl Hartmann 1951-05-07 Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Michigan State University
Spouse	Louise Hartmann
Founder of	Thom Hartmann.com
US businessman, author and liberal pundit.

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 Program, since 2003 and hosted a nightly television show, The Big Picture, between 2010 and September 2017.

Plan for a Coup in Cuba

Hartmann is the author (with Lamar Waldron) of Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK (2005).

In the book Waldron discloses details of a "Plan for a Coup in Cuba" that was authorized by John F. Kennedy and run by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The coup was planned to take place on 1st December, 1963. The Central Intelligence Agency code name for their supporting role in the the coup was AMWORLD. According to Waldron, the CIA arranged for a leading figure in the Cuban government to arrange the assassination of Fidel Castro.

Waldron and Hartmann argue that the death of Castro was to be followed by an armed invasion of US military-trained Cuban exiles. These men would have been veterans of the Bay of Pigs operation. The coup leader would then join a coalition government made up of Enrique Ruiz-Williams, Manuel Artime, Manolo Ray, Eloy Menoya and Tony Varona.

Other areas of notability

Hartmann is a writer, publishing more than twenty other books on diverse topics. The title with the most critical acclaim in the corporate press is The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight. In 1999, he was invited by the Dalai Lama to spend a week in Dharamsala after the Dalai Lama finished reading this book. Hartmann won the Project Censored Award in 2004 for Unequal Protection. As a result of a book on spirituality, The Prophet's Way, he was invited in 1998 to meet Pope John Paul II.

Trained in the 1970s in Neuro-Linguistic Programming by Richard Bandler (Hartmann is licensed by Bandler's Society of NLP as both an NLP Practitioner and an NLP Trainer, and Bandler wrote the foreword to his book Healing ADD), Hartmann popularized some of its concepts in Cracking the Code (2007), arguing Newt Gingrich and Frank Luntz made use of them in the 1980s and 1990s for Republican Party causes, and advocates using them to advance liberalism. His book Healing ADD also leans heavily on NLP techniques.

Leonardo DiCaprio made a web movie titled Before The Flood, inspired by The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight. Hartmann appears in DiCaprio's 2007 documentary The 11th Hour, as well as the feature documentary film Dalai Lama Renaissance (with Harrison Ford), and Crude Impact. In 2010, Warner Brothers and Leonardo DiCaprio announced they are making a motion picture based on the book Legacy of Secrecy, authored by Lamar Waldron and Hartmann. Hartmann also narrated the 2011 documentary film Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?

In September 2013, Hartmann was granted an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Goddard College in Port Townsend, Washington. According to President Barbara Vacarr, "Thom's work as a journalist, author, and community activist is a living example of the very mission of Goddard College, and what our students are committed to—advancing cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration, and lifelong-learning, where individuals take imaginative and responsible action."

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