As a private citizen in 1962, he broadcast incendiary statements urging people to rise up and fight the integration of the University of Mississippi. White supremacists answered his call, and rioted for hours, with two civilians killed execution-style and hundreds wounded, including six Federal marshals. Walker was arrested on charges of insurrection and sedition against the U.S., and was ordered for psychiatric evaluation by then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, but only spent a few days under observation. Walker and Hargis then embarked on a speaking tour of the nation, spreading conspiracy theories and racist beliefs. His life unravelling in the years ahead, Walker was arrested in Dallas in 1976 for public lewdness for fondling an undercover police officer.
In an ironic convergence of history, Lee Harvey Oswald, just months before assassinating President Kennedy, nearly assassinated Walker as he sat in his dining room with the same rifle used in the Kennedy assassination. Had he been successful, he would have likely been apprehended or on the run, and we may have had one less racist and one more beloved President.
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Gee I tought you were going to bring up dogout doug, who should have been cashier when, as army chief of staff, he disobeyed a direct order from Pres. Hoover and attacked and murdered bonus marchers using tanks against unarmed peaceful encampment of veterans and their families.
The only true "victory" that incompetent ever had.
List of failures, kept planes on the ground in Phillipines for hours after he was natified of Pearl Harbor
Delayed retreat to Bataan penisula after failing to properly prepare it in advance,
Claimed victory in New guina when battle still raged
Pushed for unnecessary palau landings and bloody battle.
Just as Mark Clark went for the headlines of capturing Rome instead of filling plan of cutting off and destroying German forces in Italy good old dugout doug went for headlines with a bloody battle in Soeul
rather then cutting off and destroying N. korean forces letting them live to fight another day.
Ignored UN and US orders by crossing the 38th paelell in an attempt to "reunite" Korea.
Ignoring intelligence reports and capture of Chinese prisoners to expose Un troops to a bloody and unnecessary slaughter when the Chines attacked in force.
Ignored US an UN policy by promoting the possibility of using Nukes on China.
Created myth of "unleashing" Chang Kai Shek on the Chinese mainland during Korean war.
A classic example of incompetence being promoted rather then cashiered.
Anyname -- You're right. MacArthur was another example of a dangerous loon: the "American Caesar."
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