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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. 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]
- 1931–1961
- United States Army
Nov 9, 2021 · In the early 1960s, Dallas, Texas was a “bastion of political conservatism,” the perfect place for General Edwin Walker to launch his post-military career, says Bill Minutaglio, journalist and ...
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Edwin Walker (born November 10, 1909, Center Point, Texas, U.S.—died October 31, 1993, Dallas, Texas) 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 U.S. president ...
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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 ...
Jan 1, 1996 · Edwin A. Walker, United States army general, was born in Center Point, Kerr County, Texas, on November 10, 1909, the son of George Pickney and Charolette (Thorton) Walker. After public school he attended Schreiner Institute and then the New Mexico Military Institute from 1925 until his graduation in 1927. He attended West Point Academy from ...
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In this Book. 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, 2021 ...
Nov 20, 2013 · General Edwin A. Walker, an extreme conservative who had been active in Dallas organizing anti-Castro guerrillas, became, in the spring of 1963, a particular focus of Oswald’s attention.
