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:
...MORE
p
I wish I was old enough to have been alive when the Dims were anti-communist.
Old news. This was known in the sixties.
So Oswald missed a stationary target from about 40', but hit Kennedy 2 out of 3 times, from 265 feet, while kennedy was moving away from him at 20+ mph?
That is according to the General Walker, a homo who propositioned an undercover cop at a Dallas public restroom. Never married, no kids. Who knows if Oswald shooting at him is true?
So, flat trajectory, stationary target. probably inside of 100 yards, plenty of time to focus and carefully place shot.. misses
100yds+, downward angle, moving target, rushed.. hits. twice!
It was Oswald who killed JFK.
Yes, he must have been doing some serious practice!
Lee Oswald was a progressive Leftist Democrat
Based on what?
So Oswald missed a stationary target from about 40’, but hit Kennedy 2 out of 3 times, from 265 feet, while kennedy was moving away from him at 20+ mph?
You took the words right out of my mouth!
Marina Oswald also confessed that her husband shot the Archduke Ferdinand triggering WW 1.
Point is, she would say ANYTHING to no be deported and be separated from any children or friends.
That was reported after Kennedy was assassinated. The CIA probably sent him on a a practice run.
haha, best you could do????
Quite easy to do if you're looking through a scope sighted for a more distant yardage. He missed high, so the bullet was on its way up on the parabolic arc. Just an example, an AR-15 can be sighted at 25 meters for 100 meters accuracy. At 25 meters the bullet is on its way up, at 100, it's on its way back down.
Maybe Oswald wasn’t aiming to kill him, just send him a message. We’ll never know.
Actually those shots HAVE been recreated several times.
Evidence
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.