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Before JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald Tried to Kill an Army Major General (FLASHBACK October 4, 2013)
www.smithsonianmag.com/ ^ | October 4, 2013 | Colin Schultz

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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To: SteveH
Here's what I do remember.

My pilot training buddy asked if I wanted to visit the army general who was shot at by Oswald.

Of course, I said yes.

We sat in the living room which was fairly large, with high ceilings and it was dimly lit.

I remember him showing us the window and the hole in the wall.

I remember him talking about the CIA telling him that it was Oswald that shot at him.

I'm guessing that the reason that Oswald missed is that he shot at the general's shadow on a curtain and not at the general.

61 posted on 12/16/2022 12:12:43 PM PST by FtrPilot
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To: Tell It Right

“I wish I was old enough to have been alive when the Dims were anti-communist.”

I was. And some were anti-communist, and some weren’t. That all started to change in the 1970s, when the “some weren’t” began to dominate the “some were.”


62 posted on 12/16/2022 12:30:06 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: hanamizu

Here is a link describing the way the guy did it.

https://www.sctonline.net/local-news-front-page-slideshow/morgan-recreates-kennedy-assassination


63 posted on 12/16/2022 1:06:20 PM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: bitt

And Biden saved him ? s/


64 posted on 12/16/2022 1:19:47 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: Fai Mao

Thank you. A niggling detail. The man who recreated the shots was on a platform 40 feet high, and the sixth floor of a building would be closer to 60 feet high. Don’t know how much difference that would make. Also he kept referring to 5-9 seconds to get the shots off. Why that big a range?

The Zapruder film shows Kennedy’s car disappearing behind a road sign with all being well and reappearing with Kennedy and Connelly reacting to the ‘miracle shot’, the one that went through Kennedy’s neck, through Connelly’s body, through his wrist and ending up in his leg. I guess the question for the ages is how long was the car behind the sign?

The assassination occurred when I was a junior in high school and I’m pretty sure that whatever facts are being withheld won’t be made public in my lifetime.


65 posted on 12/16/2022 1:43:42 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: uranium penguin

And, according to the Warren Commission report, that rifle was brought into the Texas School Book Depositary disassembled, but then reassembled and fired accurately by Oswald fired without any sort of calibration or test shots.


66 posted on 12/16/2022 4:29:42 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I don’t buy that it was the CIA.


67 posted on 12/16/2022 6:34:03 PM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: Tell It Right

They never were.


68 posted on 12/17/2022 4:21:33 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: PGR88

Oswald was a Marine. Those Freepers who were/are marines know you have to qualify as a marksman or you don’t get the Globe and Anchor.

Oswald passed and became a Marine.


69 posted on 12/17/2022 4:25:38 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Jim Noble

They always give the distance in feet and not yards. That is because an 82 yard shot with a rifle is just not that difficult. Many a redneck has harvested deer with a 6.5mm Carcano at greater range.


70 posted on 12/17/2022 4:37:21 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: Jim Noble; PGR88

I was in Dealey Plaza in June of 2022. I am always struck by how small of a place it really is. I have been there 5 times over the years. The friend I was with (it was his first time) was shocked at how small it is also.


71 posted on 12/17/2022 4:56:56 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("You'll shoot your eye out kid.")
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To: mad_as_he$$

“I am always struck by how small of a place it really is.”

So, basically, whomever shot JFK had a fish-in-the-barrel situation...?


72 posted on 12/17/2022 4:59:53 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: MayflowerMadam

An easy set-up for a shot at a running deer in the open West. Made a few shots at a running deer from those distances and angles myself - like I said easy.


73 posted on 12/17/2022 6:33:20 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("You'll shoot your eye out kid.")
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To: mad_as_he$$
I was in Dealey Plaza in June of 2022.

I've also been there, and in the 6th fl museum. what struck me is why Oswald didn't shoot JFK when his car was coming down Houston street.

JFK's car was coming straight at Oswald's position. Oswald was at a perfect angle, right above him. The car was traveling very slowly due to the crowds lining the road. It was open-top, so Oswald had a full body shot. Yet Oswald waited until the car turned onto Elm and started to speed away, to take a much more difficult head shot.

74 posted on 12/17/2022 8:08:19 AM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

I have wondered that also. Seems like an easier shot.


75 posted on 12/17/2022 10:47:43 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("You'll shoot your eye out kid.")
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