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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. Walker resigned his commission during 1959, but Eisenhower refused to accept his resignation and gave Walker a new command of the 24th Infantry Division in Augsburg, Germany.
Nov 9, 2021 · Before JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald Tried to Assassinate a Former Army General. Oswald's would-be victim on April 10, 1963, was an ultra-conservative firebrand named Edwin Walker. By: Dave Roos....
- Dave Roos
Aug 9, 2023 · "Peter Adams' The Insurrectionist is the first comprehensive biography of Major General Edwin A. Walker, a figure who, in the 1950s and 60s, became a leader of a far-right political movement...
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...
Jan 1, 1996 · In October 1959 Major General Walker was named commander of the Twenty-fourth Infantry Division in Europe and stationed in Augsburg, Germany. In April 1961 Walker was accused of indoctrinating his troops with right-wing literature from the John Birch Society.
Edwin Walker 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 Germany and for publicly asserting that former.
Walker, Edwin Anderson(b. 10 November 1909 in Center Point, Texas; d. 31 October 1993 in Dallas, Texas), career U.S. Army officer who resigned his commission in 1961 after being accused of right-wing indoctrination of his troops.
