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- Nov. 15, 1993: Died:Major General Edwin A. Walker
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Nov. 15, 1993 A Christian In Winter:Billy Graham
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 35
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- <p> DIED. MAJOR GENERAL EDWIN A. WALKER, 83, retired army officer;
- in Dallas, Texas. A career military man, Walker rose through
- the ranks as an artillery officer, a combat commander in World
- War II and Korea, finally becoming a major general in 1957.
- But if his rise was slow and steady, his fall was meteoric.
- A member of the far right-wing John Birch Society, Walker in
- 1961 was relieved of his command in West Germany when it was
- learned that he was using his position to indoctrinate the troops
- with his extreme views, making speeches accusing Harry Truman
- and Eleanor Roosevelt of being "communist influenced." Admonished
- by the Army Secretary, Walker resigned. In the years that followed,
- he ran a losing campaign for Texas Governor and for a while
- was the darling of ultraconservatives. But his obsession with
- mysterious forces supposedly plotting his persecution eroded
- his following. In fact, one man was after him. In April 1963
- Walker was fired upon by an unknown gunman. Months later, the
- Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F.
- Kennedy concluded the assailant had been Lee Harvey Oswald.
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