The Walker Case

[Jon Banks]

Lame excuse #1:

I'm not making any "excuses".  I'm pointing out the obvious lack of conclusive evidence implicating LHO in the attempted murder of General Walker. 

If you know of any evidence that puts Oswald at the Walker crime scene and directly connects him to the crime, please share it.

Otherwise, it's just speculation...

[Charles Collins]

I'm not making any "excuses".  I'm pointing out the obvious lack of conclusive evidence implicating LHO in the attempted murder of General Walker. 

If you know of any evidence that puts Oswald at the Walker crime scene and directly connects him to the crime, please share it.

Otherwise, it's just speculation...

Marina’s testimony, supported by the physical evidence (note, photos, bullet) directly connects LHO to the crime.

[John Iacoletti]

Marina’s testimony, supported by the physical evidence (note, photos, bullet) directly connects LHO to the crime.

But the note, photos, and bullet don’t connect anybody to any crime. So you’re left with Marina said so. And she wasn’t there.

[John Iacoletti]

All that is required is for the person who found it to identify it. This was done.

Really? Where can we find his testimony to that effect?

[Charles Collins]

But the note, photos, and bullet don’t connect anybody to any crime. So you’re left with Marina said so. And she wasn’t there.

Again, Marina’s testimony is supported by the physical evidence. And the physical evidence is supported by Marina’s testimony. Together they most definitely connect LHO to the crime. A jury would have to consider all of the evidence. This would be to help insure a fair trial. If we want to give the case a fair shake, we should keep this in mind when forming opinions.

[Charles Collins]

Really? Where can we find his testimony to that effect?

Did I say anything about any testimony? There is an FBI report that you directed me to, CE 2010 if I remember correctly. This is what the WC asked for. It was their investigation.

[Jon Banks]

Again, Marina’s testimony is supported by the physical evidence. And the physical evidence is supported by Marina’s testimony. Together they most definitely connect LHO to the crime. A jury would have to consider all of the evidence. This would be to help insure a fair trial. If we want to give the case a fair shake, we should keep this in mind when forming opinions.

By "physical evidence", do you mean the rifle and bullet? The evidence around bullet in the Walker case is inconclusive and of course, no one saw Oswald with a rifle at the crime scene.

Marina's claim that Lee tried to kill Nixon also lacked corroborating evidence. Because of that and other inconsistencies, any Defense attorney would've been able to shoot holes in her testimony (if she were allowed to testify against her husband).

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The bullet used in the attempted shooting of Walker was probably not the same type as those used in the JFK assassination. According to various newspaper accounts (e.g. ‘Walker Escapes Assassin’s Bullet’, New York Times, 12 April 1963, p.12), the Dallas police claimed that the bullet was a 30.06 calibre; the bullet shells from the Texas School Book Depository were 6.5mm. The Walker bullet was too severely deformed to allow a conclusive analysis of its pattern of grooves. A spectrographic examination by Henry Heilberger of the FBI laboratory found that the lead alloy in the bullet was different from that of bullet fragments found in President Kennedy’s car (FBI HQ JFK Assassination File, 62–109060–22).

The Walker bullet had been fired from a rifle powerful enough to send it through brickwork, which the Mannlicher–Carcano rifle was not. There is no evidence that Oswald ever had access to such a rifle.

Not only did the bullet and rifle have no association with Lee Harvey Oswald, but Edwin Walker was adamant that Commission Exhibit 573, the bullet offered in evidence, was not the one he had examined at the time of the shooting; see Justice Department Criminal Division File 62–117290–1473 for Walker’s correspondence with the Justice Department on this matter.

http://22november1963.org.uk/did-lee-oswald-shoot-general-edwin-walker