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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the reason we are reading this is because the Tucker Carleson aired a piece in which he asked someone if the CIA was involved in the Kennedy matter. That someone was a person who had read the CIA files on the kennedy assassination. That person said definitely YES.
This comes in the context of the news that Mike Pompeo urged president Trump not to release the CIA files that were mandated by law to be released. So Trump didn’t release them. The Biden administration didn’t release them either.
So why not release them? All the people involved are now dead. The reason is because the files would have reflected poorly on the CIA ...to say the least.
I will call bullshit on this nonsense. Had Oswald actually attempted to murder a General, it’s more than a safe bet that (Marine) Oswald would have been cooling his heels in a Brig for the duration. I ain’t buying this load for an instant.
He was a hard-core commie--which many, if not most Democrats are today.
looks like somebody put their creative writing class to work...
Here is tucker carleson talking about the missing cia papers that were mandated by law to be released in 2017—but were not released—either by trump or by biden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCFr6aR61f8
Bullet matched the rifle Oswald used on Kennedy. Oswald also killed a Dallas policeman who tried to arrest him.
And they got a magic bullet outcome?
hush now...
It wasn’t 265 feet.
Go to the Texas SBD window and look at the X on the pavement. Then get back to us about how hard the shot was.
There is no evidence that LHO did this. Supposedly the shooter had a car which LHO didn’t have...
OK then, it was 81 meters.
http://www.intuitor.com/student/Oswald%20Problem.php
Documentary theorized Oswald’s bullet grazed the window frame just enough to deflect the shit.
Edwin Walker was not a general at the time of the shooting. He had resigned his commission in protest after being relieved of command for distributing anti-Communist literature to the troops under his command. He was later arrested for his actions at the anti-integration protests at the University of Mississippi and spent several weeks locked up in a mental hospital.
Anti-Communist and conservative groups such as the John Birch Society came to see Walker as a hero for standing up to Communism and Communist appeasers, which is probably why Oswald targeted him.
He was there in that building, hated Kennedy, was a communist. He tried to kill an Army major
I didn't think much about it at the time.
Sorry, the shot.
Actually those shots HAVE been recreated several times.
“ 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?”
Ha haa! Exactly! Plus he was shooting downhill. Adding complexity to the shot!
Deep State Drivel.
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