This flyer, around 5,000 copies of which were distributed around Dallas
in the days before President Kennedy’s November 22, 1963 visit, accused Kennedy
of a range of offenses, from being “lax” on Communism, to “appointing
anti-Christians to Federal office,” to lying to the American people about his
personal life.
General Edwin A. Walker, a Texan who served in World
War II and the Korean War, had resigned his Army post in 1961 after a
Kennedy-ordered investigation found that he had violated the Hatch
Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activity
on the job, by distributing John Birch Society literature to his troops. Walker
moved to Dallas and became a leader of right-wing activity in the city (more on
the full range of that activity here). The ex-General led resistance to James Meredith’s 1962 enrollment at the
University of Mississippi and unsuccessfully
ran for the position of Texas governor.
