Edwin Walker
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Sep 12, 2026
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One day, I was captivated by a story turned up by a Warren Report critic named Shirley Martin, a housewife in rural Oklahoma who was commonly regarded as a busybody, according to FBI agents who were monitoring her.
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While she was hoping to disprove the government's theory that Oswald had attempted to assassinate the ultra-conservative General Edwin Walker in April 1963... she'd heard a rumor that Walker had entertained his own theories as to who was responsible.
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He had allegedly hired a private detective to find suspects, and the detective, in a twist worthy of a Coen Brothers movie, offered one suspect $5,000 to try to kill Walker, just to see if he would do it.
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The suspect asked for a fake passport and a getaway driver, appearing to take the plot seriously, but the detective was convinced that he was merely trying to con him out of the $5,000.
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Lee became friends with them and moved to the city in October of 1962, but that didn't exactly mean Dallas was a communist haven.
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At the time, a former Army general named Edwin A. Walker was running for governor of Texas.
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Walker was very outspoken against communism and seemed to be gaining a lot of steam.
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Lee felt like he couldn't just sit by and watch.
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In early 1963, Lee purchased a revolver and a rifle with a telescope.
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The 23-year-old spent the next few months learning everything he could about Edwin A. Walker.
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By the time spring rolled around, he was ready to strike.
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On April 10th, 1963, Lee tucked his rifle into his jacket and made his way to Walker's Dallas neighborhood.
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On the 10th of April, 1963, Oswald had become aware of an anti-communist figure who was ex-commander for the 24th Division of the U.S. Army, based in West Germany.
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This commander was Edwin Walker.
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Oswald despised Walker and classed him and his organization as fascist, After the purchase of his recent rifle, Oswald traveled down to his house in Dallas and attempted to shoot him through a window from less than 100 feet away.
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The bullet missed Walker and shattered against the wall.
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During JFK's housecleaning, I'm just going to name a couple of people that's critical to the story.
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One of the major guys is Major General Edwin Walker, and you probably have heard his name because he's part of the operation in Dallas, which is where he went to retire after JFK fired him from his assignment in Germany.
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When Edwin Walker shows up in Dallas, he starts recruiting a whole bunch of Nazis and white nationalists that he had been training in Germany with Galen's organization, because at the time Galen was in charge of the intelligence BND for the West German government.
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And Edwin Wilson is involved in Gladio operations inside of West Germany.
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He gets... fired by JFK.