Did Lee Harvey Oswald shoot at General Walker on April 10, 1963?

[Greg Doudna]

"Did Lee Harvey Oswald shoot at General Walker on April 10, 1963?"

March 11, 2023. 79 pp. New material.

https://www.scrollery.com/?p=1497

[Benjamin Cole]

IMHO, as guided, he shot near Walker intending to miss. A trial run for his role in the JFKA.....

[Joseph Backes]

No. He didn't. He was never a suspect in it until after the assassination, and not until he was long dead too.

Original DPD files describe a very different bullet casing, steel jacketed, not copper.  All this was ignored, buried, and covered up.

Claiming LHO shot at Walker is a story, a fiction, to make it seem LHO couldn't tell the difference in the political ideologies between JFK and Walker. This then made LHO a non-political assassin and thus solved the quandary of LHO having no apparent motive to kill JFK.  That was a problem for investigators for a longtime.   

[Greg Doudna]

1 hour ago, Joseph Backes said:

No. He didn't. He was never a suspect in it until after the assassination, and not until he was long dead too.

Original DPD files describe a very different bullet casing, steel jacketed, not copper.  All this was ignored, buried, and covered up.

Claiming LHO shot at Walker is a story, a fiction, to make it seem LHO couldn't tell the difference in the political ideologies between JFK and Walker. This then made LHO a non-political assassin and thus solved the quandary of LHO having no apparent motive to kill JFK.  That was a problem for investigators for a longtime.   

If you are saying Lee did not take the shot, my paper takes a different position. Marina told both the Secret Service and FBI, two agencies, within days, that Lee had told her he took the shot at Walker, against interest (she wanted Lee to be innocent of the JFK assassination). There is no way on earth Secret Service and FBI--two separate agencies who didn't like each other particularly well--would pressure the widow to lie back to them in answer to their own questions when they interviewed her. Makes no sense. Here is the position of my paper on p. 40:

"There is always the question concerning any specific aspect of Marina’s testimony: whether it is true, and if it is true is it the full truth. Marina was not scripted or coerced or requested to tell lies by any agency or by police or federal investigators questioning her or by the Warren Commission; there is no evidence or plausibility for that. Any prevarications of Marina were generated by herself for purposes of her own. Despite denials, the FBI probably did utilize a threat concerning Marina’s deportation/residency status in the United States as leverage to get her to cooperate in talking to them, but they wanted her to tell them the truth of what she knew, not lie to them. In the case of the Walker shot, Marina’s testimony is probably largely true in reflecting what she saw and was told by Lee. The degree to which details of Marina’s testimony are true or reflect unwitting or witting errors or material omissions, remains an open question. But Marina’s testimony that Lee told her he took the Walker shot is surely true, and the Walker Note was not forged or planted—those two facts can be taken to the bank." 

Edited March 12, 2023 by Greg Doudna

[Benjamin Cole]

1 hour ago, Joseph Backes said:

No. He didn't. He was never a suspect in it until after the assassination, and not until he was long dead too.

Original DPD files describe a very different bullet casing, steel jacketed, not copper.  All this was ignored, buried, and covered up.

Claiming LHO shot at Walker is a story, a fiction, to make it seem LHO couldn't tell the difference in the political ideologies between JFK and Walker. This then made LHO a non-political assassin and thus solved the quandary of LHO having no apparent motive to kill JFK.  That was a problem for investigators for a longtime.   

Yes...but who says LHO had to use a M-C rifle for the Walker missed potshot? 

[Greg Doudna]

On 3/11/2023 at 4:41 PM, Benjamin Cole said:

IMHO, as guided, he shot near Walker intending to miss. A trial run for his role in the JFKA.....

The argument that Oswald acted alone there that night--whether to intend to hit or intend to miss (as you)--suffers from this objection: four conditions were necessary for the shot to work and Oswald taking a bus out on his own without assistance from someone inside the house won't cut it. The four things are: neighbor dog not barking; floodlight out; blinds on window up; and Walker present in the room at 9 pm.

How do you account, not for just one, but all four of those simultaneously, working after Oswald went to all the trouble to get there? 

Edited March 13, 2023 by Greg Doudna

[Benjamin Cole]

5 minutes ago, Greg Doudna said:

The argument that Oswald acted alone there that night--whether to intend to hit or intend to miss (as you)--suffers from this objection: four conditions were necessary for the shot to work and Oswald taking a bus out on his own without assistance from someone inside the house won't cut it. The four things are: neighbor dog not barking; floodlight out; blinds on window up; and Walker present in the room at 9 pm.

How do you account, not for just one, but all four of those simultaneously, working after Oswald went to all the trouble to get there? Just lucky? My paper shows evidence indicating the shot was staged by Surrey on behalf of Walker, Oswald took the shot in cooperation with Surrey, and Walker not in the room when the shot was fired. 

https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/walker-oswald-and-the-dog-that-didn-t-bark

I wrote this for DiEugenio a little while back. We seem to be in agreement on much. Just IMHO, as usual....