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Author, PRESIDENTS OF WAR, 9 other books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. @PBS contributor. Born Chicago.

Sep 15, 2021, 5 tweets

Sixty years ago, Newsweek warns of “Thunder on the Right," led by Major General Edwin Walker (who in 1963 was evidently shot at by Lee Harvey Oswald, who called himself “Hunter of Fascists," while at home in Dallas):

At Love Field in Dallas, right-wing General Edwin Walker, who ran for Governor of Texas, 1962—although real life, it looks like a scene from a Frankenheimer movie:

The guy behind General Walker at Love Field in 1962 looks like the right-wing Senator Johnny Iselin character in Frankenheimer’s “Manchurian Candidate” (1962):

Silver figurines on Oval Office mantel in Frankenheimer's “Seven Days in May” (1964), which told of military coup d’etat and insurrection against United States, and silver figurines chosen and placed on Oval Office mantel by 45th President:

45th President and the silver figurines he put on Oval Office mantel, as reported by Slate:

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