Today I got a letter from her asking me to write to the chairmen of both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees calling attention to the fact thatMajor General Edwin A. Walker was accused of indoctrinating his troops with Americanism and [was] summarily removed from his command! This "fight" and arrest of Oswald while handing out Fair Play for Cuba Committee flyers helps establish Oswald's commie-nut credentials. Interestingly Kennedy thought that Americans should address themselves to the kinds of problems which are created by Laos, Vietnam, by internal subversion, by the desperate life lived by so many people in this hemisphere and in other places which the Communists exploit. Without too much trouble, one might easily draw parallels between what the president recommended and what Robert Welch recommended. As it says at the top of each page, the main part of this website offers an introduction to the JFK assassination. All of these documents have been available online for some time, mostly as PNG images of scans. The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry. Though the army dismissed any accusations that Walker was disseminating JBS material, he was admonished for making derogatory remarks of a serious nature about certain prominent Americans, the American Press, and TV industry and certain commentators, which linked the persons and institutions with Communism and Communist influence. Walker also failed to heed cautions by superior officers to refrain from participating in controversial activities which were contrary to long-standing customs of the military service and beyond the prerogatives of a senior military commander.14Close The Defense Department hoped that the admonishment without further punishment (except Walker's reassignment) would put a damper on the issue of political action within the military. See General Walker, Stage II, National Review, October 23, 1962, 302. The broad coalition that began assembling behind Goldwater in 19611962 did not force him to choose between those factions that were politically viable and those that included conservatives but were potentially damaging to his reputation. The House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that the backyard photographs are authentic (see HSCA Report, appendix vol.6, pp.138214). For many years their father said very little about his experiences in the service, although he had explained that due to his assignment in Washington he never left the states, unlike his brothers and cousins, who had all served overseas. It was later discovered that Lee Harvey Oswald had taken the shot at Walker. Combined with Barry Goldwater's later bid for the presidencywhich for some activists began as early as 1960these two events acted like scorecards, not only telling conservatives who among them was most appropriately classified as extremist, moderate, or liberal but informing the American public as well.
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