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WARREN REPORT No Link Between Oswald & Walker

EDITORS NOTE: This is the fifth and final dispatch of a serie. dealing with the rumors which followed the aasaMinatiou of Preaident John F. Kennedy and how the Warren Commission coped wKh them. By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD—Short-v ly after the assassination of President Kennedy, it developed that his killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, also had attempted to shoot Maj Gen. Edwin A. Walker. He also had talked about killing former Viee President Richard M. Nixon. When Oswald’s connection with the unsuccessful shooting of Walker became known, It led to widespread rumors that there was some lipjc between Oswald and the general who left the Army in a row over his ultra-conservative preachments to his troops in Europe. Walker lives In Dallas. Some of the rumors Investigated by the Warren Commission involved an alleged link among Oswald. Walker and Jack Ruby, the night club operator who later killed Oswald in the ba ernent of the Dallas city Jail. After reviewing much evidence and talking to many witnesses, the commission came to the firm conclusion that none of Oswald-Ruby-Walker rumors were true. A few days after the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy, a German weekly newspaper—, and then an American weekend tabloid — published a report

that Dallas police suspected Ruby and O«waki of being responsible for a mysterious rifle shot fired at Walker on April 10, 1963. Fabricated Statement "The commission has been reliably informed that the statement was fabricated by an editor of the (German) newspaper,” the Warren report said. "No evidence in support od thia statement has ever been advanced or uncovered. In their investigation- of the attack on General Walker, the Dallas police uncovered no suspects and planned no arrests. The FBI had no knowledge that Oswald was resonsible for the attack until Marina Oswald (the assassin’s wife) revealed that information on Dec. 3, 1963.” This also disposed of the report that Ruby and Oswald were about to be arrested by Dallas authorities but that FBI agents intervened at the request of Attorney General Robert F, Kennedy and asked the police to hold off for reasons of state. It is true that the FBI was inve tigating Oswald at the time of the Kennedy assassination. But this was because of the nearly thre years he spent in Russia as a defector. The FBI check-up had been in progress for months and was In no way related' to the violence in which Oswald indulged. The Walker incident differed from the Kennedy shboting in that Oswald planned his attack on the general carefully for an estimated period of one to two months. Photographed Area

Oswald photographed the area around Walker’s home and studied the neighborhood well in advance of his attack. Then on the night of April 10, using the same rifle with which he killed Kennedy, Oswald fired at the general through a window. He missed, fled immediately and hid the weapon undec bushes nearby. He later eturned and retrieved the rifle. Walker reported the incident to police immediately, but until after the Kennedy assassination and Oswald's subsequent slaying by Ruby, police had made no arrests in the Walker case. Furthermore, they were without clues. Oswald’s motives in shooting at Walker? Difficult to establish. Possibly Oswald reasoned that by destroying Walker, he couldnralse his own stock with ultra left-wing elements in this country and possibly the Soviet Union. At the time Oswald shot at Walker, he was beginning to have thoughts of returning to Russia. Marina Oswald told the commission her husband compared Walker with Adolf Hitler. She said Oswald spoke of Walker as "a very bad man, that he was a fascist, that he was the leader of a fascist organization, and when I said that even though all of that might be

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true, just the same he had no right to take hia life, he said if someone kitted Hitler in time it would have saved many lives.” Direct Action In any event, the Walker ambush was one of the more direct actions taken by Oswald during his troubled, twisted life. He planned it carefully. He left his wife detailed instructions on what to do if he was arrested or killed. Furthermore, he outlined his plans in writing. Investigators did not find evidence of such advance planning in the Kennedy assassination other than Oswald leaving his wallet and total cash assets of *l7O (except sod *l3 in his pockets) with his wife before he out to kill the President. The commission noted: ‘"Hie Walker incident indicates that in spite of the belief among those who knew him (apparently including the FBI) that he was apparently not dangerous, Oswald did not lack the determination and other traits required to carry out a carefully planned killing of anther human being and was willing to consummate such a purpose if he thought there was sufficient reason to do so.” In the case of Walker, this reason apparently was his equating the general with the image of Hitler. Oner umor was thas Oswald and Walker probably were acquaited because Oswald's notebook contained Walker’s name and telephone number. The Warren report said: Didn’t Know OSWALD “It is probable that this information was inserted at the time Oswald was planning his attack on Walker. General Walker stated that he did not know of Oswald before the assassination." Walker, after issuance of the Warren Commission report, called it a whitewash job and insisted there was conspiracy between Ruby and Oswald in the Kennedy slaying. Walker remains convinced that Ruby killed Oswald to keep him silent. The retired general said in Dallas this week: "There apparently was enough between Rubenstein (Ruby) and Oswald so that Rubenstein knew what he might say. "If that’s not satisfactory for a conspiracy, certainly Oswald was involved in an ideological conspiracy with . his, membership in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. . as well as being involved in a conspiracy in his own pnipd and his own training, in which he had many common associates." After Marina Oswald told her story to the commission, ballistics experts compared the badly mutilated bullet recovered from the Walker home with test shots from Ostwald’s 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcano Italian military rifle with which he killed Kennedy They came to the conclusion that the same weapon probably was used in both shootings. Stayed In Mood Oswald remained in a killing mood and his next pre-selected target was Nixon, according to his wife. Accounts of this phase of Oswald’s life are so jumbled, however, that there is reason to believe Oswald, or Marina, did not know the difference between Nixon, then out of office, and the then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. According to Mrs. Oswald’s testimony before the commission, her husband, on April 24, 1963, dressed in what Marina called his “good suit.” He pocketed his revolver which had been purchased nrom a California mail o’rder house, and prepared to leave the house. Marina said she wanted to know why he was dressed. He told her. “Nixon is coming. I want to go and have a look.” Actually, Nixon was not in Dallas, oor had there been any news stories speculating or announcing his coming. Johnson, however, was in the Texas city on April 23. a fact widely reported' in advance by Dallas papers. ' t— Marina was alarmed. She said her husband told her he would use the revolver if - the opportunity presented itself. Increasingly apprehensive. the Russian woman called her / husband into their bathroom. As she told the commission: Started Crying "I closed the door and I wanted to prevent him and I started to cry. And I told him that he shouldn't do this. ..1 remember that I held him. We actually struggled for several minutes and then he quieted ’down." Questioned closely about the possibility of .cons usi o n on names of Nixon and Johnson. Marina was positive | about Oswald’s mention of Nixon. But later in her testimony, she said, "after all these questions I wonder if 1 am right in my own mind." Oswald apparently succumbed to Marina’s pleas and did not leave the house with his revolver on April 24. He did not give his wife the opportunity to argue the point when he went to kill Kennedy. He and Marina were living apart at the time.

A '"*a jjfl ~— .■)<>♦ ' EXPLANATION— Sam Yost, left, explains the principle of pre-stressed concrete beams to four interested onlookers, Allen county engineer George Weatherford, Adams county engineer Walter Gilliom, state highway department inspector Ora McClurg and Bob Yost. Countv commissioners and county engineers from four counties tour the Yost Construction company plant Wednesday. — (fhoto by Mac Lean) 1 1 it ■ I B ■! m 1 |MI y| 'JF*'■ ■■ THE LlNEUP— Commissioners and county engineers from Adams, Wells, Huntington and Allen counties toured the Yost Construction company Wednesday to view the process used by the company in the making of pre-stressed concrete beams. Here the group inspects one of the forms used for pouring the beams. — (Photo by Mac Lean)

Flying Farmers Have Meeting At Shades Flying Farmers of Indiana and Illinois had dinher Sunday at Shades state park, with about 50 members attending. Movie films of past Flying Farmers conventions were shown on Saturday evening, and on Sunday, a group attended church services at Waveland. Among those in attendance were Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Richardson of the local Hl-Way airport. Acording to Mrs. Richardson, many walked the Shades Trails before noon, and at 1 p.m., a dinner was served the Flying Farmers in the Shades Inn dining

room. A business session was held later in • the, afternoon. Plans for ,the Christmas dinner at 'Logansport on December 6 were made by the group. The Richardsons flew to the event, as all flyers landed at the Roscoe Turner strip Vtdob isadjacent to the park.

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Fort Wayne Center By Olivet College College credit classes will be, conducted Oct. 10 through Dec. 5, at the Fairfield Church of the Nazarene, 2503 Fairfield avenue, Fort Wayne, sponsored by Olivet Nazarene College, Kankakee, 111. The following classes, each Saturday morning, are being offered, each giving two hours of college credit: “Music Fundamentals for Church Musicians,” Prof. Curtis Brady, instructor; “Christian Doc-

trine.” Prof. Leroy Reedy, instructor! ‘‘Johannine Literature,” Dr. J. F. Leis, instructor. Regristration fee is $2 per course, and tuition is $36 per course. Those seeking more information may contact the Rev. W. R. Watson, pastor of the De-

catur Church of the Nazarene. Mick Suman, Decatur, has enrolled in the extension center, and two Decatur young men attending Olivet College, Kenneth Marckel, a senior, and Ronald Habegger, a freshman. Olivet has a record high enrollment of 1,350 students this year, including 450 freshmen. The enrollment is approximately 100 higher than one year ago. The school purchased 35 additional acres of jand for future development, and a $2 million building program is underway, with a science building and college center well under construction.

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