Again... thanks to David Von Pein for compiling the YouTube video below [46 1/2 minutes]
A background........
No one has ever explained why Oswald would try and kill an arch-conservative commie hater general and then turn around and then successfully kill an accused commie sympathizer and liberal POTUS. I believe that the unidentified reporter was a plant meant to shine on the chief and force him to "look into it" [the Walker thing]
On November 23, 1963 Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry held a news conference that was filmed by ABC affiliate WFAA TV in Dallas. Curry was telling reporters about the rifle found by Dallas Police when an unidentified individual interrupted Curry and asked a question that was completely out of context. This person asked, "Is there any connection yet between this and the firing at Major General Walker?"
By using the phrase "any connection yet," this unidentified person seemed to be challenging Chief Curry and the Dallas Police to establish a connection between the Walker shooting and the assassination of President Kennedy.
On November 24, the morning after Chief Curry's press conference, General Walker was in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was telephoned by Hasso Thorsten, a reporter from the West German newspaper Deutsche National Zeitung, which was published in Munich, West Germany. Thorsten asked Walker about the shooting incident and attempted to elicit from Walker a statement to the effect that Oswald was the man who had shot at him.
Warren Commission attorney Liebeler asked Walker if he had told the German reporter that Oswald had shot at him. Walker said, "No; I did not. I wouldn't have known it. It was much later that they began to tie Oswald into me, and I didn't even know it yet."
On November 29 the Deutsche National Zeitung published an article entitled, "The Strange Case of Oswald." The article was allegedly based on the telephone interview with General Walker and reported that Walker said it was Oswald who shot at him. But Walker told the Warren Commission, "I was very surprised to see this article."
Commission attorney Liebeler agreed and said, "I am somewhat puzzled by the whole thing, because the newspaper in which this apparently appeared is dated November 29 and, in fact, that information (that Oswald may have been involved) was not known to anybody that I know of until a later date than that ..... several days, at any rate. "
"Is there any connection yet between this and the firing at Major General Walker?"
John Armstrong
See my revised thread on Curry here--
https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,1021.msg22885.html#msg22885
On November 23, 1963 Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry held a news conference that was filmed by ABC affiliate WFAA TV in Dallas. Curry was telling reporters about the rifle found by Dallas Police when an unidentified individual interrupted Curry and asked a question that was completely out of context. This person asked, "Is there any connection yet between this and the firing at Major General Walker?"
By using the phrase "any connection yet," this unidentified person seemed to be challenging Chief Curry and the Dallas Police to establish a connection between the Walker shooting and the assassination of President Kennedy.
On November 24, the morning after Chief Curry's press conference, General Walker was in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was telephoned by Hasso Thorsten, a reporter from the West German newspaper Deutsche National Zeitung, which was published in Munich, West Germany. Thorsten asked Walker about the shooting incident and attempted to elicit from Walker a statement to the effect that Oswald was the man who had shot at him.
Warren Commission attorney Liebeler asked Walker if he had told the German reporter that Oswald had shot at him. Walker said, "No; I did not. I wouldn't have known it. It was much later that they began to tie Oswald into me, and I didn't even know it yet."
On November 29 the Deutsche National Zeitung published an article entitled, "The Strange Case of Oswald." The article was allegedly based on the telephone interview with General Walker and reported that Walker said it was Oswald who shot at him. But Walker told the Warren Commission, "I was very surprised to see this article."
Commission attorney Liebeler agreed and said, "I am somewhat puzzled by the whole thing, because the newspaper in which this apparently appeared is dated November 29 and, in fact, that information (that Oswald may have been involved) was not known to anybody that I know of until a later date than that ..... several days, at any rate. "
"Is there any connection yet between this and the firing at Major General Walker?"
John Armstrong
On November 24, the morning after Chief Curry's press conference, General Walker was in Shreveport, Louisiana.
He was telephoned by Hasso Thorsten, a reporter from the West German newspaper Deutsche National Zeitung, which was published in Munich, West Germany. Thorsten asked Walker about the shooting incident and attempted to elicit from Walker a statement to the effect that Oswald was the man who had shot at him.
Walker was not the recipient of the telephone call.... Walker made the call to Hasso Thorsen because he was in a panic. Lee Oswald had not been killed as they had planned and it looked like Lee Oswald had established a rock solid alibi. Walker was desperate to pin the blame on Lee. He therefore wanted a reporter to establish that the commie punk Oswald was the culprit who had fired a bullet through his window back in April.
The solution to this case lies in this tale and the reversal of the direction of that phone call.
It doesn't take a genius to see that there would have been no reason for a reporter from a small weekly paper in Germany to have any knowledge ( or interest in) about a little publicized event that happened in Dallas, Texas way back in April. Anybody who believes the telephone call originated with Hasso Thorsen in Germany simply aren't using there head.
