JFK FACTS: New Light on the Shooting of Gen. Walker

The untold story of why Lee Harvey Oswald took a shot at a right-wing racist crusader

[This Part I of two-part series: Part II: Target Practice With Lee Harvey Oswald.]

One of the most important—and least studied—events of the JFK assassination story is a shooting incident at the home of cashiered U.S. Army General Edwin Walker in April 1963. The shot, fired from outside Walker’s home, deflected off a window frame and passed near Walker's head but did not harm him. The assailant escaped and was not identified until after Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas seven month later.

Of the four violent events investigated by JFK researchers (the other three being the shooting of the president, the murder of police officer J.D. Tippitt, and  the slaying of suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald), the Walker shooting has received the least scrutiny, when it has not been ignored altogether.