This is from Dick Russell's book, "The Man Who Knew Too
Much". It is by far, the best explanation I have ever heard
for the Walker shooting:
(quoting)
On the evening of April 8, Robert Alan Surrey, a printing
salesman and associate of General Walker, says he "saw two
men around the house peeking in windows" as he drove up.
Spotting a dark colored new Ford sedan without license plates
on the street into which Walker's back alley ran, surrey
waited until the men returned to the car and then briefly
tailed them. When the car doubled back, Surrey, believing he
had been spotted, abandoned the trail. He reported the
incident late that night to Walker; the general says he
called the police.
The shooting incident came two nights later. At about 9 PM,
while Walker was sitting at a desk in his study, a bullet
came whizzing through the window, passed near his head, and
embedded in a wall, showering Walker with plaster.
Although the testimony of a teenage neighbor boy, Walter
Coleman, was glossed over by the Warren Commission, the
teenager said he observed three men outside Walker's house.
Two of them sped away down an alley in a white or beige older
model Ford... Coleman saw the third man put something on the
floorboard of a 1958 Chevy in the adjacent church parking
lot, then hastily leave the scene...
The Walker Shooting Revisited
Bradford J. Angers, a former Army security agent and private
investigator, today continues to manufacture electronic
surveillance equipment in semi-retirement in Dallas. For a
brief time in 1963 he had been in the employ of H. L. Hunt,
until the oilman demanded that Angers pack for Washington and
go to work on his Lifeline radio project. Angers refused, and
walked out of the office.
Then, several weeks after the assassination, Angers says he
got a surprise phone call from Hunt."He said,'Brad, I'm
sending a guy over to you, I want you to put him to work.' It
was like an ultimatum." Angers agreed to do so.
When I spoke to Angers on a tip in the spring of l992, he
refused to identify publicly the person whom Hunt asked him
to hire. But it quickly became obvious to me who it was.
Angers recalled the young man as being "a frail fellow, very
meticulous. He patterned himself after Joseph Goebbels. He
and I used to talk about how Goebbels used syllogistic logic
to build the Nazi empire."
Angers landed him a job in Austin, assisting Lady Bird
Johnson's radio station in an advertising campaign. Then,
suddenly, the FBI showed up at Anger's door."They said,'how
much do you know about this guy that you just put to work for
the president's wife?'" I said "Well, I know he's a helluva
smart guy." Then they told me about CUSA and the
black-bordered ad. I had never associated this fellow with
the ad. So I tried calling the fellow up, but he'd
disappeared. Finally his housekeeper called me and said to
come over; that he needed medical care and some money. I went
to his apartment in Austin. His face was all bandaged up. He
had his arms in splints, and his wife had her leg in a cast.
They said they'd had a little accident near Denton County.
"I gave them some money and then called this old sheriff up
in Denton. He said there had been no major accidents there in
several weeks. But one of their squad cars did pick up a man
and woman who'd been beaten up and thrown out of a car. The
sheriff said they gave phony ID, but he gave me a
description. So I went back to this fellow and asked him what
was up, and he let me tape-record our conversation. He told
me that he and his wife had been picked up by the Secret
Service. They were told if they even mentioned any
relationship with the Kennedy assassination, or the Hunts,
they`d be dead."
"Before the assassination, this guy's brother had gotten
close to General Walker. Eventually he became his chauffeur.
It was part of their infiltrating Walker's organization, and
it went back to a power struggle in Germany when this fellow
had been in the Army there and starting forming his own
little group. Apparently this fellow couldn't stand Walker.
Neither could his brother. "Somehow that spring of '63, the
brother had made Friends with Oswald, who was also trying to
get close to Walker. But this fellow I knew had never met
Oswald, l don"t think, until his brother introduced them that
night in April. The three of them got drunk together. They
got in a car and the brother said,"Somebody ought to shoot
that no-good son of a bitch Walker." And this fellow
said,"I've got news for you, I got him kicked out of the
goddamned Army in Germany." Then Oswald said, "I've got a
rifle, let's go hit the son of a bitch."
"The three of them drove down St. Johns Avenue, and stopped
the car close to a little stone bridge that went over Tuttle
Creek. The brother and Oswald went down the creek, and Oswald
laid down on the embankment looking at Walker's house.
Remember the great big window Walker had in the front?"Walker
was a nut, he would turn up a lamp and just pace back and
forth reading in the room. They saw his shadow against the
back wall and Oswald pumped off a shot. It hit the wall
instead. Then they jumped in the car and took off"
Angers's story has never before been made public. The young
man he is describing could only be Larrie Schmidt. This would
mean that Schmidt, who was in touch with Charles and the Hunt
family, would have been perfectly positioned to pass the word
along about Oswald. Schmidt and/or his brother might even
have been acting under instructions in the first place to
involve Oswald in the Walker incident. If this account is
true and Angers is sure it is-the implications are staggering.
In the summer of 1992 I recontacted General Walker, now
eighty-two, at his Dallas home. He well remembered Larrie
Schmidt and his brother Bob."Larrie had been in a logistics
command under General [James] Gavin down in Munich. The
Schmidts" objective here in Dallas was to take over a ready-
made organization. They started out moving in on Frank
McGee's National Indignation Convention. Then Young Americans
for Freedom became a good cover for them. Finally, they
wanted to take over my organization."
Walker could not remember just when he took Bob Schmidt onto
his personal staff, but it was probably before he hit the
road with preacher Hargis early in 1963. It was Walker's
aide-de-camp, Robert Surrey, who first brought the Schmidt
brothers around."I had six to eight people working for me at
the time. and Bob ran a lot of errands," Walker recalled. "I
had a station wagon, people coming into the airport, all my
publications had to be printed across town. Larrie would hang
around, just being a nuisance. Finally l ran him out of my
house and told him never to set foot in it again. The dead
giveaway was when one day he appeared on the front page of
the Dallas Times Herald as a Dallas businessman. I thought he
was overdoing it, he didn't seem to have much objective
except making a power play. People don't realize how vicious
it was; people were sabotaging within the organizations you
see, even on the conservative side."
Finally l asked this question: Did Walker think it was
conceivable that the Schmidt brothers could have gotten
together with Oswald to shoot at him? His reply stunned me.
"I've been told that they were," Walker said."Several people
investigated the shooting as best they could, and raised that
possibility. They were plenty capable of working with Oswald,
sure. I think it's rather natural to suspect they were
helping him one way or another."