General Edwin Walker oversaw integration of Little Rock High School this week 1957. Later rebuked for ordering his troops to read rightist pamphlets, he quit Army, denounced civil rights efforts as "pro-Kennedy, pro-Communist” and was model for coup leader in “Seven Days in May”: 
In 1962, ousted General Edwin Walker was arrested at University of Mississippi for trying to provoke riots against admisision of Black student James Meredith — later told friends he was repenting for having helped Army to integrate Little Rock High School this week 1957:
In 1962, ex-General Edwin Walker ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Texas on anti-JFK, anti-civil rights, pro-John Birch platform:
Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot at ousted General Edwin Walker in the latter’s Dallas home, spring 1963, and missed:
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