This was just another frame job foisted on Oswald after the JFK assassination. Oswald was a completely innocent CIA and he was a pre-selected patsy for the JFK assassination. Oswald did not shoot JFK; nor did he kill Officer J.D. Tippit (because Oswald was not at the Tippit shooting which occurred at 1:06 to 1:07 PM and Oswald did not shoot at Gen. Edwin Walker in April of 1963. The latter was just another lie about Lee that Marina Oswald was compelled to tell about her murdered husband Lee.
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Not only did the bullet and rifle have no association with Lee
Harvey Oswald, but Edwin Walker was adamant that Commission
Exhibit 573, the bullet offered in evidence, was not the one he had
examined at the time of the shooting; see Justice Department Criminal Division
File 62–117290–1473 for Walker’s correspondence with the Justice Department on
this matter.
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On the evening
of 10 April 1963, Edwin Walker, a former Army general, was sitting in his study
when a bullet entered his house through a window frame and struck the wall close
to his head. Dallas police were unable to identify the gunman.
The crime
remained unsolved until shortly after the assassination of President
Kennedy, when the FBI’s report presumed that Lee Harvey Oswald was the culprit (see Warren
Commission Document 1, pp.20–22). The Warren Commission, unable to determine
Oswald’s motive for
shooting JFK, seized on the attempted shooting of General Walker as evidence
of Oswald’s murderous tendencies (see Warren Report, p.183).
Marina Oswald and the Handwritten Note
For more than two
months after the JFK assassination, Marina Oswald was held at the Inn of the Six
Flags in Arlington, near Fort Worth, where the Secret Service and the FBI
interrogated her and threatened her with deportation to the Soviet Union (Warren Commission Hearings, vol.1,
p.410).
She produced
several statements incriminating her husband, including the claim that on the
evening of the attempted assassination of General Walker, Lee Oswald had gone
out, leaving a handwritten note which explained in Russian what she should do
if he were arrested. When Lee returned, he admitted to Marina that he had shot
at Walker (for Marina Oswald’s account, see Warren Report, pp.405f).
Marina Oswald’s Credibility
The Warren
Commission was aware that many of Marina Oswald’s statements were
contradictory and unreliable (see, for example, her evidence about Oswald cleaning and practising
with his rifle). One of the Commission’s attorneys, Norman Redlich, wrote in a memo to J. Lee Rankin
that “neither you nor I have any desire to smear the reputation of any
individual. We cannot ignore, however, that Marina Oswald has repeatedly lied
to the [Secret] Service, the FBI, and this Commission on matters which are of
vital concern to the people of this country and the world” (HSCA Report,
appendix vol.11, p.126).
Redlich expanded
on this when testifying before the HSCA: “She may not have told the truth in
connection with the attempted killing of General Walker. … I gave to Mr Rankin
a lengthy document. … I indicated the testimony that she had given, the
instances where it was in conflict” (ibid., p.127).
Ruth Paine Supplies Oswald’s Note
While Marina was
producing this incriminating evidence, an interesting coincidence occurred.
Ruth Paine, with whom Marina had been staying at the time of the assassination,
sent her a Russian–language book. Tucked inside the book was the handwritten
note (Warren Commission Hearings,
vol.16, pp.1f [Commission Exhibit 1]).
This was not the
only time Ruth Paine provided evidence helpful to the case against Oswald:
·
A Minox spy camera had been found
in her garage among Lee Oswald’s possessions, but Ruth Paine claimed that it actually
belonged to her estranged husband; see Carol Hewett, ‘The Paines’ Participation
in the Minox Camera Charade,’ Probe, vol.4 no.1 (November–December 1963).
·
She claimed to have found another
document in Oswald’s handwriting, this time a letter addressed to the Soviet
Embassy, which linked Oswald to a KGB agent
in Mexico City ; see Jerry Rose, ‘Gifts from Russia: Yeltsin and
Mitrokhin,’ The Fourth Decade, vol.7 no.1
(November 1999), pp.3–8.
For more about
the role of Ruth Paine in the JFK assassination, and her relationship with
Marina Oswald, see the introduction to George de Mohrenschildt’s I Am a Patsy! I Am a
Patsy!.
Was the Walker Note Authentic?
The note was undated,
and did not mention General Walker or any reason why Oswald might find himself
under arrest. There are several reasons to doubt the authenticity of the
handwritten note:
·
Ruth Paine’s home had been
searched thoroughly on the afternoon of the assassination, and again the following
day, when Paine claimed to have seen officers specifically looking for loose
papers within books (Warren Commission Hearings,
vol.3, p.87). The inventory of items discovered is 49 pages long, but does
not mention the note (FBI HQ Oswald File,
105–82555–24).
·
Although the FBI’s handwriting
expert considered that the note was in Oswald’s handwriting (Warren Commission Hearings,
vol.7, p.437), only one of the three experts who were consulted by the
House Select Committee on Assassinations considered the note to be authentic (HSCA Report,
appendix vol.8, pp.232–246).
·
The Bureau’s fingerprint expert
found seven sets of fingerprints on the note. None of them belonged to either
Lee or Marina Oswald (FBI HQ JFK Assassination File,
62–109060–36).
Two Men Outside Walker’s House
There were no
witnesses to the shooting itself, but one of Walker’s neighbours was alerted by
the gunshot and saw two men leaving the scene. Each man got into a car and drove
away. The witness, Walter Kirk Coleman, was able to give detailed descriptions
of the men and their cars (Warren Commission Hearings,
vol.26, pp.437–441 [Commission Exhibit 2958]). After the JFK assassination,
Coleman was shown photographs of Oswald. He denied that Oswald resembled either
of the men he had seen. In any case, Oswald could not drive.
Robert Surrey, an
associate of General Walker, reported that he had seen two men acting
suspiciously outside Walker’s house two days before the shooting. Neither man
resembled Oswald (Warren Commission Hearings,
vol.5, pp.446–9).
The Bullet and the Rifle
The bullet used
in the attempted shooting of Walker was probably not the same type as those
used in the JFK assassination.
According to various newspaper accounts (e.g. ‘Walker Escapes Assassin’s
Bullet’, New York Times,
12 April 1963, p.12), the Dallas police claimed that the bullet was a 30.06 calibre;
the bullet shells from the Texas School Book Depository were 6.5mm. The Walker
bullet was too severely deformed to allow a conclusive analysis of its pattern
of grooves. A spectrographic examination by Henry Heilberger of the FBI
laboratory found that the lead alloy in the bullet was different from that of
bullet fragments found in President Kennedy’s car (FBI HQ JFK
Assassination File, 62–109060–22).
Dr Vincent Guinn
performed neutron activation analysis on the bullet fired at General Walker, as
well as several bullet fragments associated with the JFK assassination. He
claimed that the Walker bullet was “extremely likely” to be a fragment from the
same type of bullet as those fired at President Kennedy (HSCA Report, appendix vol.1, p.502),
but his methodology and results have since been refuted (see How
Reliable is the Neutron Activation Analysis Evidence in the JFK Assassination?).
The Walker bullet
had been fired from a rifle powerful enough to send it through brickwork, which
the Mannlicher–Carcano rifle was not. There is no evidence that Oswald ever had
access to such a rifle.
Not only did the
bullet and rifle have no association with Lee Harvey Oswald, but Edwin Walker
was adamant that Commission
Exhibit 573, the bullet offered in evidence, was not the one he had
examined at the time of the shooting; see Justice Department Criminal Division
File 62–117290–1473 for Walker’s correspondence with the Justice Department on
this matter.
Oswald’s Motive for Shooting Walker
Oswald’s
supposed motive for shooting at Walker was political. Walker was well known for
his very right–wing views. He had been forced to resign from the Army for indoctrinating
his troops with the ideas of the John
Birch Society and for announcing publicly that President Truman, among
other prominent American politicians, was a communist sympathiser (see Walker’s
obituary in the New
York Times).
Although the alleged
presidential assassin was officially supposed to have been a communist, the
known facts of Lee Harvey Oswald’s career show
that he was closely associated with one or more US intelligence agencies, and
that his pro–communist public persona was highly likely to have been a fake.
With no plausible
motive and no substantial grounds for believing that Oswald was involved in the
attempted shooting of Walker, and no strong evidence that Oswald was
guilty of the JFK assassination, it seems that the Walker shooting was attributed
to Oswald by the FBI and the Warren
Commission purely to support the notion that Oswald was a leftist
malcontent with a propensity for violence.
More Information
For detailed
discussions of the shooting of Edwin Walker, see:
·
Gerald D. McKnight, Breach
of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why,
University Press of Kansas, 2005, pp.48–59.
·
Sylvia Meagher, Accessories
After the Fact: the Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report,
Vintage, 1992, pp.283–292.
Marina Oswald SUPPOSEDLY told Secret Service agent Forrest
Sorrells on Dec. 26, 1963 that Lee Harvey
Oswald told her (on the night of the Walker shooting) that he tried to shoot at
Edwin Walker. Only one problem: she was lying under coercion.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth338124/m1/7/
Marina Oswald to Jesse Ventura in 2010:
“Would you sacrifice your children for the truth?” –
Marina Oswald to Jesse Ventura in 2010 for his TV show. (11-19-10, Jesse Ventura’s
TV show Conspiracy Theory).
(Marina
had made a lot of statements incriminating her deceased husband in 1963-64. The
Warren Commission had use her as its star witness in the posthumous frame up of
patsy Oswald in 1964. Marina at the time was age 22, with a toddler and a baby,
no money, did not speak English, was surrounded by US intelligence, had her phone
illegally wiretapped in Feb. 1964, feared being deported back to Russia or even
possibly being indicted as a accomplice in the murder of President John Kennedy.”
Also, Burton Hersh in his book Bobby and J. Edgar has an excellent
debunking of the supposed Oswald assassination attempt on Gen. Edwin Walker,
which never happened.
Just look up Edwin Walker in the index https://www.amazon.com/Bobby-J-Edgar-Revised-Transformed-ebook/dp/B0067M9FKG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=burton+hersh+bobby+and+j&qid=1569499781&sr=8-1
Marina Oswald on Lee Harvey Oswald in the immediate
aftermath of the JFK assassination
“I love Lee. Lee good man. He didn’t
do anything.” – as quoted in Life Magazine.
[Burton Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar: the
Historic Face-Off between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover that Transformed America,
pp. 428-429]
JFK researcher Matt Douthit - Facebook post on 11/6/2019
THE “WALKER NOTE”
10 days after the assassination, a note was found by Ruth Paine (R 183). It was
determined to have been written by Oswald (7 H 437). The note was to his wife
Marina, and “appeared to be the work of a man expecting to be killed, or
imprisoned, or to disappear” (R 184).
The Commission claimed that on the night of the Walker attack, “Marina Oswald
went to his room and discovered the note.” (R 184)
But Marina said she never saw the note. (23 H 393)
Further, the note is undated and makes no reference to Walker. (R 183-184)
Most likely, Oswald wrote this note in relation to a project other than an
attack on General Walker.
