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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.
- 1931–1961
- United States Army
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....
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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 ...
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October 4, 2013. Major General Edwin Walker U.S. War Department / Wikimedia Commons. Seven months before Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy, he took his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to...
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.
Nov 19, 2018 · Edwin Walker received an enthusiastic welcome at Dallas Love Field in October 1962 after being arrested while protesting the use of federal troops to let a black man, James Meredith, enroll in...
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.