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Edwin Anderson Walker (November 10, 1909 – October 31, 1993) was a United States Army major general who served in World War II and the Korean War. Walker resigned his commission during 1959, but Eisenhower refused to accept his resignation and gave Walker a new command of the 24th Infantry Division in Augsburg, Germany.
Edwin Anderson Walker (ur. 10 listopada 1909 w hrabstwie Kerr w stanie Teksas, zm. 31 października 1993 w Dallas) – amerykański generał major, który służył podczas II wojny światowej i wojny koreańskiej.
Edwin Walker was a U.S. Army general who served in World War II and Korea, but resigned in 1961 after being accused of circulating anti-government literature. He later became a prominent opponent of civil rights and communism, and was nearly assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
1 sty 1996 · In October 1959 Major General Walker was named commander of the Twenty-fourth Infantry Division in Europe and stationed in Augsburg, Germany. In April 1961 Walker was accused of indoctrinating his troops with right-wing literature from the John Birch Society.
Walker, Edwin Anderson. ( b. 10 November 1909 in Center Point, Texas; d. 31 October 1993 in Dallas, Texas), career U.S. Army officer who resigned his commission in 1961 after being accused of right-wing indoctrination of his troops. Walker was one of two sons of George Pinckney Walker, a Texas rancher, and Charlotte Thornton, a homemaker.
Peter Adams’s The Insurrectionist is the first comprehensive biography of Major General Edwin A. Walker, a figure who, in the 1950s and 1960s, became a leader of a far-right political movement known for its elaborate conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and uncompromising white supremacy.
15 sie 2002 · How did Edwin Walker, one general among the army's many, become so important? Born in 1909 in Center Point, Texas, Walker came from a family of staunchly conservative Texans. He won admission to West Point, distinguished himself on the polo fields, and graduated in 1931.
