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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)I would point you to this fact-filled thread on the Education Forum that would extend the 'pet theory' with Gen. Edwin Walker at the center of a plot to frame Oswald as a patsy in the assassination. (Note that RFK had previously attempted to have Walker committed to a mental institution after he instigated a riot at Ole Miss, but failed on legal grounds.) The theory proposes that de Mohrenshildt handled Oswald up to the point when Oswald shot at Gen. Walker in Dallas, then when Oswald went to New Orleans he was handled by Ed Butler and Carlos Bringuier, all with connections to CIA counter-intelligence.
Note the last post of the thread (from late 2012) where it points out the deficiencies in the Warren Commission, the FBI investigation, and the HSCA when considering the role of Gen. Walker:
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=19452&st=30
Jack Ruby named ex-General Edwin Walker and the John Birch Society directly to Chief Justice Earl Warren, but Warren did not understand the reference. ATF officer Frank Ellsworth told the Warren Commission that ex-General Edwin Walker and the Minutemen were the most likely suspects in the JFK assassination, but the Commission did not follow his reference. Harry Dean, while stil a member of the Minutemen but also an FBI informant, told the FBI in 1963 that he personally witnessed ex-General Walker making plans and providing funds to Cuban Exile guerrilla fighters and naming Lee Harvey Oswald as their patsy. But the FBI did not follow up on that lead.
Even the entire HSCA, from 1977 through 1979, in their resurrection of the JFK investigation, neglected ex-General Edwin Walker even as they spent millions of dollars investigating Johnny Rosselli, Santos Trafficante, Carlos Marcello and Sam Giancna. What a waste.