The Dismissal of Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker - A special report by Cong. Morris K. Udall

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33. Walker was behind the ''JFK-Wanted for Treason'' posters in Dallas on 22 November 1963.

The "Wanted For Treason" Flyer Distributed in Dallas Before JFK's Visit

By Rebecca Onion
Slate.com, Nov. 15, 2013

This flyer, around 5,000 copies of which were distributed around Dallas in the days before President Kennedy’s November 22, 1963 visit, accused Kennedy of a range of offenses, from being “lax” on Communism, to “appointing anti-Christians to Federal office,” to lying to the American people about his personal life.

General Edwin A. Walker, a Texan who served in World War II and the Korean War, had resigned his Army post in 1961 after a Kennedy-ordered investigation found that he had violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activity on the job, by distributing John Birch Society literature to his troops. Walker moved to Dallas and became a leader of right-wing activity in the city (more on the full range of that activity here). The ex-General led resistance to James Meredith’s 1962 enrollment at the University of Mississippi and unsuccessfully ran for the position of Texas governor.

After the assassination, Walker’s organization was briefly under suspicion, and the Warren Commission investigation tracked these flyers to Walker’s aide Robert Surrey. Surrey had overseen the distribution of the sheets in the days prior to JFK’s arrival; members of Walker’s organization, acting on his behalf, placed them under windshield wipers and in newspaper racks.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/11/15/jfk_assassination_flyer_distributed_in_dallas_by_edwin_walker_s_group_before.html

Personally, I find it incredible that the authorities used Walker to further frame Oswald rather than finding out who he was working with or for or on, let alone suspected him of conspiracy in the assassination.

PS: Thank you for the kind words, Boomerproud! Back at you! Your Friendship means the world to me.

PPS: More on the flyer and Walker from some brave so-and-so: http://derosaworld.typepad.com/derosaworld/jfk-assassination/