For a wealth of information on the Pro-Blue program, see Archibald Roberts's Papers, cartons 15, Oregon Special Collections. Walker's required seminars were not so different, implied the editorial. On November 22, 1963 their father was back in the Fort Roots Veterans Administration psychiatric hospital, possibly as a direct result of those visits with his former commander. The editors had shifted their opinion. After Walker was arrested in Mississippi, the Courtneys shifted their focus, and Walker returned to martyr status. Both publications believed Walker's instincts were correct, although only National Review conceded that he was not necessarily the most stable officer in the military. The camp he was often visiting Furthermore the directive licensed branches of the military to apply new training methods outside of traditional military protocol. The General was still in full view, slowly amblingover to the window.3. In 1965, however, he voluntarily retired so he could work full time for his organization, the Committee to Restore the Constitution. Third, the Walker incident educated conservatives about the value of capitalizing on liberal policies that infuriated the conservative public. Not JFK. Air Force General Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command and an outspoken advocate of the use of nuclear weapons against communist foes, might have served as a model for such fears. The film, DirectorioRevolucionario Estudiantil (DRE). Our position is as we have stated it, that on the basis of what is publicly known you have been treated shabbily; and that the Liberals seem to be seizing the opportunity to degut an orientation program necessary for an enlightened military.33Close. By 1963 conservatives were well along in their plans to draft Goldwater as the Republican nominee. A good deal of this websites text has turned up elsewhere online, such as in blog and forum posts. Before JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald Tried to Assassinate a This NEW Photo Print is made from our original negative, which is from the Edwin C. P'Pool White House, Tennessee, United States. Or he may have shot at Walker, murdered Tippit, posed for the backyard photographs, and still have been innocent of the shooting in Dealey Plaza. I do not believe they should try to do this in terms of partisan politics whatsoever. See Leo Egan, Eisenhower Says Officers Should Stay out of Politics, New York Times, November 24, 1961, 1, 23. The upshot of Thurmond's resolution was the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearings on military Cold War education and speech review policies, although Roberts and his letter writers did not rejoice over that committee's final recommendations. The newly-revealed information follows below, but it is pertinent to note that much more information about Walker became known many years after the assassination and grew incrementally as other events occurred. Oswald may have carried out the assassination and yet have had no connection to the other shootings, whether the photographs were genuine or manufactured after the event. Warren Commission Exhibit CE573. Born in 1909 in Center Point, Texas, Walker came from a family of staunchly conservative Texans. Demonstrating your allegiance to communism by brandishing both Stalinist and Trotskyist literature is like demonstrating your allegiance to religious fundamentalism by brandishing both a Bible and a Quran. Some editorials drew analogies between what they saw as the railroading of Walker and McCarthy-like tactics, in which illegitimate sources are accepted as the truth and innocent people are thus coerced into confessions or are blacklisted. Added to his fervent hatred for the Kennedys, his unabashed intolerance for anyone else who might have the temerity to defend them, and his violent temperament, it can be reasonably posited that the term paranoid might apply in a much larger context. The Walker incident helped bridge the gap between political incubation and political activism. Yet Walker was stubborn. Mayer posed the question to the committee: Seven thousand Americans were caught in Korea and held by a Communist enemy. NSC-68 and its 1958 revision made clear to commanders like Walker that their job was to do whatever was necessary to prepare their soldiers for battle against the enemy.