Brief History of Ex-General Edwin Walker: Part Three

By Paul Trejo

Part Three -- Violent Clash with Lee Harvey Oswald: American History has so far overlooked one of the most intriguing military and civilian figures of the 20th century, the resigned Major General Edwin Anderson Walker, who was the only U.S. General to resign his commission in the 20th century. Few historians recall that Walker was responsible for leading Federal Troops to racially integrate Little Rock High School in Arkansas for President Eisenhower in 1957, and also for leading riots to racially segregate Ole Miss University in Oxford, Mississippi against President Kennedy in 1962. Few historians recall that Edwin Walker first resigned his command under President Eisenhower in 1959, after he was converted to the John Birch Society, or that Eisenhower denied that resignation and gave Major General Edwin Walker his greatest commission -- a command over 10,000 Troops and their dependents in Augsburg, Germany, defending the Berlin Wall. A mythology has arisen that Walker was "fired" from his Germany command by JFK because of his Bircher opinions, when actually Walker was relieved of his command by the Joint Chiefs because of a long history of scandals with the US Army newspapers in Germany, who were more likely spying on Edwin Walker because he had never married and was presumably gay. JFK offered Walker another position in Hawaii, but Walker submitted his resignation to the US Army a second time in November 1961, and this time the US President accepted it. For the first time in his adult life, Edwin Walker was a civilian, and his clash with the political climate of the Civil Rights movement in 1961-1963 presents a surprising slice of American history that has received almost no publicity in the past half-century. This is more surprising because the name of Edwin Walker appears more than 500 times in the Warren Commission volumes investigating the assassination of JFK, since Edwin Walker was briefly a suspect in the JFK assassination. History student Paul Trejo has studied with eminent historian H.W. Brands in his research of the personal papers of Edwin Walker at UT Austin to provide a rare glimpse into the life and times of Ex-General Edwin Walker -- the only US General to resign in the 20th century.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Trejo
• Release date: Dec 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311921741

Paul Trejo

BA degree from University of the State of New York (1987).MA degree from California State University at Dominguez Hills (1989)Member of the Hegel Society of America for nearly 20 years.Author: An English Edition of Bruno Bauer's 1843 'Christianity Exposed' (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002).

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A Brief History of Ex-General Edwin Walker (Part Three - Final)

Paul E. Trejo, MA

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE TO PART THREE

8. THE MYSTERY OF OSWALD’S SHOT AT WALKER

BACK HOME FROM THE MIDNIGHT RIDE

THE McDUFF DETOUR

THE SHOOTER – LEE HARVEY OSWALD

9. WALKER’S LOW PROFILE

WALKER SUBDUED

FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE CCC

SPEAKER – ROBERT WELCH

SPEAKER -- EDWIN WALKER

GOLDWATER RALLY

10. DEFENDING TEXAS FROM ALDLAI STEVENSON

PROMOTING THE U.N. IN DALLAS – NOT

U.S. DAY IN DALLAS

U.N. DAY IN DALLAS

WANTED FOR TREASON: JFK

FBI INVESTIGATION

RECEPTION FOR KENNEDY

11. JFK KILLED – IMPLICATIONS FOR DALLAS

THE BLACK-BORDERED AD

ANALYZING THE BLACK-BORDERED AD

THE DEUTSCHE NATIONALZEITUNG

12. WALKER AND THE WARREN COMMISION

Marina Oswald

Robert Oswald

James Herbert Martin

Katherine Ford

Duncan Ford

Michael Paine

Ruth Paine

Ilya Mamantov

George De Mohrenschildt

Raymond Franklin Kristinik

Mrs. Elena Hall

Samuel B. Ballen

Lydia Dymitruk

U.S. Attorney Max Clark

FBI Agent Robert Frazier

FBI Agent Cortlandt Cunningham

Police Agent Joseph Nicol

CPUSA Officer Arnold Johnson

Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry

Dallas Police Captain Will Fritz

Dallas Police Lieutenant J.C. Day

Jeanne De Mohrenschildt

FBI Agent James Hosty

FBI Agent Alan Belmont

J. Edgar Hoover

Mrs. Donald Gibson

FBI Agent Ivan Lee

Jack Ruby

Bernard Weissman

Marina Oswald (returned)

Robert Allen Surrey

SS Agent James J. Rowley

Bernard Weissman (returned)

Printer Robert Klause

Printer Arthur Watherwax

Warren Allen Reynolds

Ruth Paine (returned)

Michael Paine (returned)

Major General Edwin Walker

Walker and the Deutsche Nationalzeitung Newspaper

Marina Oswald (third appearance)

FBI Agent Lyndal Shaneyfelt

Revilo Pendleton Oliver

Marina Oswald (fourth appearance)

Problems Concerning the Walker Shooting

Problems Concerning the Black-bordered Ad

Problems with Walker’s Testimony

13. WALKER’S LIFELONG OBSESSION WITH APRIL 1963

PROBLEM OF WALKER’S FOREKNOWLEDGE

OSWALD A KNOWN CRIMINAL

LINK RUBY AND OSWALD

U.S. SENATE AND ITS SENATOR KENNEDY

CHIEF CURRY’S BOO-BOO

LETTER TO SENATOR FRANK CHURCH

WEEKLY MESSAGE

LETTER TO PROFESSOR ROBERT BLAKEY

LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

WALKER-KENNEDY

THE TROJAN HORSE - USA

MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS

JFK DIDN’T KNOW HE KNEW HIS ASSASSIN

WALKER’S DISPUTED BULLET

14. AFTERMATH OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION

SKEPTICS OF THE WARREN COMMISSION

Senator Richard Russell

Senator Sherman and Congressman Boggs

Senator Gerald Ford

The HSCA and the New Conspiracy Theories

FBI Testimony Ignored – Frank Ellsworth

FBI Testimony Ignored – Loran Hall

FBI Evidence Ignored – Harry Dean

Detour – David Robbins

FBI Evidence Ignored – Gerry Patrick Hemming

THE STRANGE WORLD OF DICK RUSSELL

15. A BRIEF SUMMARY OF WALKER’S POST-MILITARY CAREER

Dreams Dashed

Walker in Early 1964

Walker After 1964

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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PREFACE TO PART THREE

After losing his bid to keep Ole Miss University racially segregated, resigned Major General Edwin Walker spent three days in the Springfield insane asylum in Missouri, until he was liberated by a coalition of both left-wing and right-wing protesters against the Kennedy decision. JFK and RFK had crossed the line of mixing psychiatry with politics. Largely because of that political error, the attorneys of Edwin Walker were able to convince a Mississippi Grand Jury to acquit Edwin Walker of all charges related to the deadly Ole Miss riots. At this point, Edwin Walker would re-enter American politics from more bizarre perspectives. His next national spot in the mainstream media was his miraculous escape from an assassination attempt at his home in Dallas. This strange event would eventually link the fate of Edwin Walker to the fate of JFK once again.

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8.0. THE MYSTERY OF OSWALD’S SHOT AT WALKER

BACK HOME FROM THE MIDNIGHT RIDE

Having traveled to 27 speaking sites in just over a month, and seeing adoring fans on one hand, and hostile newsmen on the other, one can imagine the exhaustion of these two men on their way back to Dallas, Texas. Yet a tired Walker returned to his Dallas home at 4011 Turtle Creek Boulevard early on Wednesday 10 April 1963 and heard some disturbing news from his neighbors. There had been prowlers just the night before.

Robert Allen Surrey reported two white men in a new 1963 Ford, dark purple or brown, parked in the alley behind Walker’s house. He saw them get out of their car walk up to the backyard fence and look the place over. When they drove away, Mr. Surrey followed them in his car, attempting to get their license number, but there were no license plates on the front or rear. When the car turned to circle back, Surrey presumed he had been noticed, so he drove away. He reported all this to the police.

With the police duly advised, Walker went about his ordinary business that warm Texas night, opened his windows and reviewed his taxes for 1962. Suddenly, about 9pm, while sitting at his desk he was startled by a loud bang immediately above his head. Walker instantly looked around and after directly discerning that it was gunfire, ran upstairs to get his pistol and then ran back downstairs again.

A car had screeched away in the background. As his right arm bled from tiny bullet fragments, Walker ran outside into his back yard with his gun, but saw nothing except his neighbors beginning to gather in the alley. Walker called the Dallas Police Department from his telephone at about 9:10 pm, summoned them, and then walked outside and up his backyard slope toward the alley behind his home, joining his neighbors.

Two neighbor boys had run toward the scene the moment they heard the shots. One boy, Kirk Coleman, climbed his fence and saw a medium build man with longer black hair jump into a light green 1950 Ford in the Church parking lot across the alley behind Walker’s home and speed away. Further down the parking lot was another car, unknown model, painted black with a white stripe; a man was inside with his dome light on, bending over the front seat as if placing an object on the back floorboard. This man seemed to be in no hurry, the child told his neighbors.

The police quickly arrived and surveyed the damage. They found a chipped edge on top of the backyard wooden fence. The bullet traveled 40 yards from the fence, struck an open window frame near its center, which deflected the bullet just enough to miss its target. Police found the bullet on the other side of the wall that it struck.

Reporters also arrived and asked Walker to guess who the shooters might be. Communists, of course, were his suspects as he scoffed, And the Kennedys say there's no internal threat to our freedom! The DPD assigned an extra patrol car to Walker's neighborhood as detectives began their analysis of the clues.

Walker sat down that night to ask himself who would want to kill him at his home. He had become accustomed to death threats, but they had always turned out to be crank calls. This serious brush with death might have come from his political enemies – the Communist Party, the NAACP, or perhaps, as he was to tell people for the next thirty years, perhaps it was that Communist sympathizer, the Attorney General Robert Kennedy who had been so angry at Walker because of the Ole Miss riots. RFK seemed to be capable of political psychiatry, and so perhaps he was even capable of murder.

THE McDUFF DETOUR

Walker’s long-time secretary, Julia Knecht, along with Walker’s business partner, Robert Surrey, reported to the police their suspicion that William Duff was the April 10th shooter. Dallas Police Department records indicate that Duff (aka. McDuff), white male, 33, blue eyes, blond with a receding hair line, also drove a tan and brown Ford, and acted suspiciously.

Duff originally came to Walker’s house in December of 1962 with all his belongings in his car. He claimed to be an immigrant from Scotland who was a fan of Walker’s work. Duff volunteered to work part-time for the American Eagle Publishing Company (AECP) for room and board. Duff added that he also had to study continually to retain his American citizenship papers. Walker accepted Duff’s terms. Soon however, Duff became lazy and performed no duties for the AECP.

Julia Knecht investigated Duff on her own. She said that in January, 1963, people offered Duff jobs, but he refused them. Then Duff became engaged to a neighbor, Miss Whitley, who broke their engagement when she learned that Duff had been borrowing money from her mother, and that the British consulate in Houston had no record of a William Duff or McDuff.

Duff became incorrigible to AECP volunteers while Walker was away on the Midnight Ride. On 10 March 1963 Robert Allen Surrey searched through Duff’s belongings and found a receipt for an airline ticket made out to William Duff dated May, 1962 from San Francisco to Seattle. Surrey concluded that Duff was lying about being Scottish. At that point Surrey and Knecht agreed to move Duff’s belongings into the hallway and demanded that he leave the house. McDuff then left Walker’s house and was last seen by Mrs.Whitley on 6 April 1963.

When questioned, Mrs. Whitley told police that she believed Duff was Scottish and that he was in the car sales trade because he visited her daughter at her house driving various cars, including a brown 1957 Ford, a maroon 1958 T-bird, a white 1962 Oldsmobile, a new 1963 Ford, and a new 1963 Chevy. She did not have his address, but did have his phone number: TA7-1869. Police determined that the address corresponding to that phone number was the home of a married woman, now separated, who owned a 1958 T-bird and worked as a part-time model.

Knecht further suspected that Duff, on the night of the shooting, had poisoned the neighbors’ noisy barking dog, because the dog was sick on the night of the shooting and so failed to warn householders of prowlers. The dog continued to be sick the day after.