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Walker was arrested on four federal charges, including sedition and insurrection against the United States. He was temporarily detained in a mental institution on orders from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy , who demanded that Walker receive a 90-day psychiatric examination.
After federal marshals were ordered to the University of Mississippi in 1962 to quell riots and secure the admission of Black student James Meredith, the outspokenly pro-segregationist Walker was arrested on a federal warrant charging him with insurrection and seditious conspiracy. The charges were later dropped.
Sixty years before the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Edwin Walker was charged with insurrection and seditious conspiracy. He was arrested on orders from the attorney general after leading a deadly riot against federal marshals as they protected the first African American student attempting to register at the University of ...
9 sie 2023 · Sixty years before the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Edwin Walker was charged with insurrection and seditious conspiracy. He was arrested on orders from the attorney general...
On 23rd June, 1976, Walker was arrested for public lewdness in a public toilet at a Dallas park and accused of fondling an undercover policeman. He was arrested again for a similar offence on 16th March, 1977. He pled guilty and was given a suspended, 30-day jail sentence, and fined $1,000.
The testimony of Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker was taken at 4:15 p.m., on July 23, 1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney, 301 Post Office Building, Bryan and Ervay Streets, Dallas, Tex., by Mr. Wesley J. Liebeler, assistant counsel of the President's Commission.
Prokurator generalny Robert F. Kennedy nakazał umieszczenie Walkera w szpitalu psychiatrycznym na 90-dniową obserwację, lecz American Civil Liberties Union i psychiatra Thomas Szasz protestowali wraz z grupami prawicowymi przeciwko tej decyzji i Walker został zwolniony po pięciu dniach.
