Posted on 12/16/2022 10:04:02 AM PST by bitt
Seven months before he shot President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald tried to kill Major General Edwin Walker
Seven months before Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy, he took his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to Major General Edwin Walker‘s house, stood by the fence, aimed towards the window, and shot at him. Walker was a stark anti-communist voice and an increasingly strident critic of the Kennedy’s, whose strong political stances had him pushed out of the army in 1961. In an excerpt, published at the Daily Beast, from a new book, Dallas 1963, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis tell the story of how Walker found himself in the sights of Lee Harvey Oswald.
On April 10, 1963, Oswald left his wife a note and made for Walker’s house. He took aim, ready to carry out his thoroughly researched plan.
"Oswald lifts his rifle and stares into the window. Surrounding Walker are folders, books, and stacks of packages wrapped in brown shipping paper. The walls are decorated with panels of foil wallpaper embossed with an Asian-style flower motif. Walker’s head is in profile. He has a pencil in hand, and he is perfectly still, focused on something at his desk. From outside looking in, it must look a bit like a painting—as if Walker is caught in thought with the right side of his face clearly visible. Oswald squints into his telescopic sight, and Walker’s head fills the view. He looks so close now, and he’s sitting so still, that there’s no possible way to miss. Drawing a tight bead on Walker’s head, he pulls the trigger. An explosion hurtles through the night, a thunder that echoes to the alley, to the creek, to the church and the surrounding houses.
Walker flinches instinctively at the loud blast and the sound of a wicked crack over his scalp—right inside his hair. For a second, he is frozen. His right arm is still resting on the desk alongside his 1962 income tax forms. He doesn’t know it, but blood is beginning to appear."
Oswald missed his shot and escaped into the night. “The Warren Commission, relying on testimony from Oswald’s widow, Marina, said Oswald tried to kill the general because he was “an extremist,”” says the New York Times. The next day, Walker was interviewed about the attempted assassination:
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Thanks for the update 😀
Hit JFK from the front through the neck, then from the front, again, blowing the top and back of his head off while shooting a rifle from above and to the rear from over 100+ yards.
Hell of a recurve shooter. You know, where the bullet goes out and turns around and comes back towards where it was fired from.
Magic shot indeed!
How about Oficer Tippet?
Any deer hunter worth his salt could easily his target at 265.(roughly eighty yards)
And Kennedy was moving away, not sweeping side to side. Meaning an adjustment of a few inches.
I knew a guy who served in the Marines with Oswald.
He knew Oswald. He was convinced that Oswald did it.
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I’m Convinced.
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After Tucker Carlson’s show last night expect to see lots of articles like this trying to show that their wasn’t a conspiracy against JFK.
Yes. And other films and photos including of the Lincoln limo when parked at Parkland hospital with a clear bullet hole through the front windshield. Many witnesses at the hospital confirmed it was a bullet hole from front to rear.
Totally ignored in the Warren Lie Report.
where in the house was the room?
Note: You will see the end of Watters' World. It's the correct link. 🙂
There are also other segments beyond the JFK segment.
It was a 80 or so yard shot.
Pretty easy.
Many recreations have been done.
What got me when I first saw it on the Jerry Rivers late night show when I was a kid was how it showed a big chunk of JFK’s skull and brain rolling off the trunk and Jackie scrambling to catch it. Shooter(s) knew what he/they were doing but did not succeed in taking off his whole head. The throat shot from the front, making him hang his head forward, followed by an immediate head shot. Definitely, a decapitation attempt.
Back in the day I was at that window when they allowed it. I believe there was a tree at that location which occluded with the shot. It is gone now
I doubt Oswald shot anything other than the curb near the overpass. He was the patsy scapegoat diversion.
Bullet deflected off a cross piece in the window
Sorry, but I don't remember. It was a long time ago.
Google maps says it was 265 feet.
Had a relative who was on the House Assassination Committee in 1976. Said there was six sure shots during the firing that almost exonerates LHO
Yes, the Army major was about 40 feet away sitting still in his house. Oswald shot and missed him but we’re supposed to believe he hit a moving target twice at 280 feet going away from him? I’m not buying it.
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