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- When Marina testified before the Warren Commission, she remembered Oswald calling Walker “a very bad man, that he was a fascist, that he was the leader of a fascist organization.” She also held onto the note Oswald had left her, evidence to her that he indeed attempted to kill Walker that night in April.
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When Lee returned, he admitted to Marina that he had shot at Walker (for Marina Oswald’s account, see Warren Report, pp.405f). Marina Oswald’s Credibility. The Warren Commission was aware that many of Marina Oswald’s statements were contradictory and unreliable (see, for example, her evidence about Oswald cleaning and practising with his ...
“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 ....
Sep 14, 1978 · By George Lardner Jr. September 13, 1978 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Testifying softly that she has been trying to "forget the bad," Marina Oswald said yesterday that she lied to the FBI and the Secret...
May 25, 2022 · In April 1963, Oswald told his wife that he had tried to kill Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker, a stark anti-communist and a white supremacist. “He said that he just tried to shoot General Walker,” Marina Oswald Porter later testified before the House of Representatives. “I asked him who General Walker was.
That night Oswald had attempted to assassinate General Edwin Walker, a virulent anti-Communist. Oswald had prepared a book of operations for the plan, including photos of Walker's house, the...
If it could be shown that Oswald had associates in the attempt on General Walker, they would be likely candidates as the grassy knoll gunmen. The committee recognized, however, that this is speculation, since the existence, much less identity, of an Oswald associate in the Walker shooting was hardly established.
Later that month, as Marina told the Warren Commission, she took only one photograph of Oswald dressed in black and holding his weapons along with an issue of The Militant newspaper, which named ex-general Edwin Walker as a "fascist." These photos became known as the "backyard photos" of Lee Oswald, which some conspiracy theorists dismiss as fake.
