In 1959 Walker was transferred to West Germany where he took command of the 24th Infantry Division, one of the units considered most likely to receive the communists' opening salvo. After Walker's arrest, his stock among conservatives fell rapidly when the U.S. attorney general's office reported that he was psychologically unfit. Lee and his brother later discussed those parts and affirmed with each other that the conversations were laced with anti-Kennedy rants and undisguised hatred from Walker and obligatory, but perfunctory, grunts and cursory assents from their father. Although each cohort stood by a position made unique by its own perspective, to arrive there, they strode across a great deal of common ground. Targeting leaders of conservative organizations, Roberts focused on getting participants to the actual hearings in the Old Senate Office Building and generating a flood of letters to the committee that was to decide upon the necessity of an investigation. This underappreciated film indicatesGeneral Walker was tracking Oswald not later than August of 1963. Had she not discovered his condition when she did, his fate would have become the second occurrence of his drivers utter desperation caused by his brutishness, as noted in the epigraph above. 1098, November 915, 1961, 417. However, its most prominent member was the dashing Major General Edwin A. Walker. We need your support because we are a non-profit organization that relies upon contributions from our community in order to record and preserve the history of our state. How General Walker managed the Dallas Police Edwin A. Walker to William F. Buckley, Jr., June 15, 1961, in box 17, folder Walker, E. A., Buckley Papers. After Walker resigned and declared his independence from any civilian or government agency, he began a one-man campaign to educate Americans about the dangers of the communist insurgency. First he should not have advised his troops on how to cast their votes (he used the Americans for Constitutional Action voter index, a supposedly nonpartisan rating of how congressmen voted on various issues).11Close Second, in a speech to his troops and their wives, reported on by the privately owned tabloid the Overseas Weekly, Walker accused certain public figures, including Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Dean Acheson, of being definitely pink.12Close Here however Walker was also the victim of the media. Click on the phototo see the John T Martin film at the 6th Floor Museum website,. The Department of Defense interpreted the directive to mean that troops in the armed services should receive additional education about the communist threat and their own role in America's defense. She explained to him that she had a boyfriend, but his response was that the boy cannot give her the things that he could. On his last visit, around Christmas of that year, her mother answered the door and explained to the General that my daughter is too young for you, and I dont want you to bring her anything else, or come back again, to see her. The daughter had put his presents into a box which the mother then handed to him as she asked him to please leave. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Attorney General Robert Kennedy later issued a warrant for Walker's arrest on the charges of seditious conspiracy, insurrection, and rebellion.
