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    American army officer and conservative activist

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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Edwin_WalkerEdwin Walker - Wikipedia

    Edwin Anderson Walker (November 10, 1909 – October 31, 1993) was a United States Army major general who served in World War II and the Korean War. He became known for his staunch conservative political opinions and was criticized by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for promoting personal political views while in uniform. [citation needed]

  2. May 10, 2024 · Edwin Walker (born November 10, 1909, Center Point, Texas, U.S.—died October 31, 1993, Dallas, Texas) was a U.S. Army general who served valiantly in World War II and the Korean War but later resigned (1961) with the rank of major general after receiving a public admonishment for having circulated right-wing literature to his troops in ...

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  3. Nov 9, 2021 · Oswald, who later killed JFK, tried to shoot Walker, a former Army general and anti-communist activist, in Dallas in 1963. He missed by an inch and escaped arrest, using the same rifle he used in the Kennedy assassination.

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  4. Seven months before he shot President Kennedy, Oswald tried to kill Major General Edwin Walker, a vocal anti-communist and critic of the Kennedy administration. He missed his shot and escaped, but was later arrested and charged with the crime.

  5. View. summary. Peter Adams’s The Insurrectionist is the first comprehensive biography of Major General Edwin A. Walker, a figure who, in the 1950s and 1960s, became a leader of a far-right political movement known for its elaborate conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and uncompromising white supremacy. Sixty years before the January 6 ...

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  7. General Edwin Anderson Walker was the only U.S. Army general officer to resign his commission amid his tour of duty in the 20th century. Was he a patriot, a ...

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    Edwin Anderson Walker was a United States Army major general who served in World War II and the Korean War. He became known for his staunch conservative political opinions and was criticized by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for promoting personal political views while in uniform. Walker resigned his commission during 1959, but Eisenhower refused to accept his resignation and gave Walker ...

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