ABOUT THAT SHOT FIRED AT GENERAL WALKER?
.. The photograph reportedly purchased by Life Magazine for 45,000 from the FBI agent placed in charge of Marina a Oswald, the wife of the alleged assassin of Kennedy, was doctored - up in some photographis laboratory it has now been shown, This should call fresh attention to another bit of strange “evidence” in this'case that. reeks of frame-up. ;
The "evidence’® is the assertion, ascribed by the press to Marina Oswald that her husband confessed to her that he had fired a shot at the ultra~-reactionary Maj. Gen, Edwin A, Walker on the night of April 10, 1965, This assertion received major headlines in the big press throughout the world, and it was, of course, quite damaging to the alleged killer of President Kennedy.
But Marina Oswald's purported declaration was not the first to be made orediting the hero of the John Birch Society with having been shot at through the window of his home (but miraculously missed) by the same expert marksman who was able to fire with almost unbelievable speed and accuracy at a swiftly moving target in the presidential car,
The first source to make this revelation was the German neo~ Nazi National Zeitung und Deutsche Soldaten Zeit of Munich, This sheet said “inmiediatoly after the assassination that lee Oswald had — attempted to shoot Maj, Gen. Walker, it charged that the investigation of the attempted murder had been suspended on orders from Robert Kennedy. The same issue carried an interview with Walker himself,
All this was reported in the Paris daily Le Monde of. November 50. It was not until December 6 that the Associated Press repeated the ~— story about Oswald allegedly firing at the general, The Associated Press did not credit the Munich fascist newspaper. as the original source, Credit was given instead to "government sources" in Washington and Oswald's widow was listed as the ultimate source, How, then, did the neo-Nazi newspaper in Munich get this information at least
a week before the Associated Pre'ss in Washington?
In pointing to the thinness of this piece of "evidence" in the case built_against Oswald, World Outlook Lsee issue of December 15, 1963, p. 4] declared that * the new charge against Oswald "brings General Walker prominently into the news and in the most favorable political light -- as almost a martyr from the same gun used against Kennedy. :
"If true, the 'scoop!. offered’ to its readers by the neo-Nazi journal in Munich will go down as a remarkable instance of clairvoyance, But if untrue ~- isn't an intensive investigation called for of General Walker, his connections among 'government sources! and the strange use that is being made of Mrs, Oswald? Just who is serving as translator for her? Does she perhaps believe that in 'free! America one must make a Moscow-type..'confession! 2?" .
.This line of inquiry has not yet béen followed up, There seoms to be little likelihood that it will be. The resources needed to dig up the facts in this direction seem.to have been mobilized for other purposes ~~ such as faking a photograph to convict Oswald in the pages of U.S. journals of mass circulation like Life Magazine .
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