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Major General Edwin Anderson Walker ( November 10 , 1909 – October 31 , 1993 ) was a member of the U.S. Army known for his Right Wing political views and for being a target of Lee Harvey Oswald . EARLY LIFE AND MILITARY CAREER Edwin "Ted" Walker was born in , Walker commanded a subunit of the Canadian-American First Special Service Force in the Invasion Of Anzio, Italy in January 1944. In August 1944, the FSSF landed on the Hyeres Islands off of the French Riviera , taking out a strong German garrison. Walker again saw combat in the Korean War , commanding the Third Infantry Division's Seventh Regiment, and was senior advisor to the First Korean Corps. He next became the commander of the Arkansas Military district in Little Rock, Arkansas . During his years in Arkansas, he implemented the order of President Eisenhower in 1957 to quell civil disturbances during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock. In 1959, General Walker was sent to '', Nov. 10, 1961. In February 1962, Walker entered the race for Governor of Texas, but finished last among six candidates in a Democratic primary election in May that was won by John Connally . Walker organized protests in September 1962 against the enrollment of African-American James Meredith at the racially segregated University Of Mississippi . His public statement on September 29: This is Edwin A. Walker. I am in Mississippi beside Gov. Ross Barnett . I call for a national protest against the conspiracy from within. After a violent 15-hour riot broke out on the campus on September 30, in which three people were killed and six Federal Marshal s were shot, Walker was arrested on four federal charges, including insurrection against the United States. The charges were dropped after a federal Grand Jury adjourned in January 1963 without indicting him. ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT It was around this time that Walker got " and the leader of a "fascist organization."Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 1, p. 16, Testimony of Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald . Oswald began to put Walker under Surveillance , taking pictures of Walker's Dallas home and nearby railroad tracks, perhaps his planned escape route. Oswald mail-ordered a Rifle using his alias Hidell (he had already ordered a pistol in January). He planned the assassination for April 10 , ten days after he was fired from the photography firm where he worked. He chose a Wednesday evening because the neighborhood would be relatively crowded because of services in a church adjacent to Walker's home; he would not stand out and could mingle with the crowds if necessary to make his escape. He left a note in Russian for his wife Marina with instructions should he be caught. A photocopy of Oswald's note, in Russian. Retrieved March 16, 2007. Walker was sitting at a desk in his dining room when Oswald fired at him from less than a hundred feet (30 meters) away. Walker survived only because the bullet struck the wooden frame of the window, which deflected its path. However, he was injured in the forearm by fragments. At the time, authorities had no idea who attempted to kill Walker. Marina saw Oswald burn most of his plans in the bathtub, though she hid the note he left her in a cookbook, with the intention of bringing it to the police should Oswald again attempt to kill Walker or anyone else. Oswald's involvement was unknown until the note and some of the photos were found by the authorities following the Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy . The bullet was too badly damaged to run conclusive ballistics tests, but neutron activation tests later proved that the bullet was from the same manufacturer as the one that killed Kennedy. Oswald later wrote to Arnold Johnson of the Communist Party, U.S.A. , that on the evening of October 23, 1963 he had attended an "ultra right" meeting headed by Gen. Edwin A. Walker.Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 20, p. 271, Undated letter from Lee Harvey Oswald to Arnold S. Johnson, with envelope postmarked November 1, 1963 . "Rally Talk Scheduled by Walker," ''Dallas Morning News'', Oct. 23, 1963, sec. 1, p. 7. "Walker Says U.S. Main Battleground," ''Dallas Morning News'', Oct. 24, 1963, sec. 4, p. 1. ''ASSOCIATED PRESS V. WALKER'' Angered by negative publicity he was receiving for his conservative political views, Walker began to file libel lawsuits against various media outlets. One of these suits, titled ''Associated Press v. Walker'' went all the way to the United States Supreme Court ,''Associated Press v. Walker'', 389 U.S. 28 (1967). but the court ruled against Walker and found that the Associated Press was not guilty of reckless disregard in their reporting about Walker. The court, which had previously said that public officials could not recover damages unless they could prove actual malice, extended this to public figures as well. MISCELLANY
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