WI: Lee Oswald Kills Edwin Walker

He'd probably be the target of a manhunt if that was the case. How likely would it be that the police would capture him, what kind of evidence would he have left behind?

I agree that he quite probably would not have the chance to try to go after JFK after this. Unless he didn't somehow get very, very lucky and not suspected by the police at all for the Walker murder, of course.
 
He'd probably be the target of a manhunt if that was the case. How likely would it be that the police would capture him, what kind of evidence would he have left behind?

I agree that he quite probably would not have the chance to try to go after JFK after this. Unless he didn't somehow get very, very lucky and not suspected by the police at all for the Walker murder, of course.

Considering Oswald was a bumbling twit who left tons of evidence behind during the JFK assassination he would have to be very lucky indeed.
 
Considering Oswald was a bumbling twit who left tons of evidence behind during the JFK assassination he would have to be very lucky indeed.

Well, IOTL it seems the Dallas police did not have any suspects in the Walker assassination attempt. So if Oswald managed to kill Walker, to say that he would be suspected we need to assume that the Dallas police would put a lot more effort into the investigation than IOTL. In a certain way it of course probably is a given - a murder will be investigated more thoroughly than a mere attempt - but I understand Walker was somewhat of a public figure and so I think they should have conducted an actual investigation into the attempt as well. On balance, then, it is not entirely outlandish to suggest that there is a chance Oswald could get away with the Walker murder, or at least not get caught before November 1963.

Quote from the House Select Committee on Assassinations Final Report:

With respect at the to the Walker shooting, reports of the Dallas Police Department, made one time of the shooting and referred to in the Warren Report, reflected that there was witness who stated he saw more than one person leaving the scene after the shooting.

Another witness, according to police reports, stated he saw two men, two nights before the shooting, driving in the vicinity of the Walker house in a suspicious manner. These statements were never substantiated, and the case remains unsolved. Nevertheless, if they are true, a possible implication is that Oswald had associates who would engage in a con- spiracy to commit murder.

The committee conducted a limited investigation to see if leads could be developed that might assist in identifying these possible associates. No leads were developed, and this line of inquiry was abandoned.
From the Warren Commission report:

The Attempt on the Life of Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker

At approximately 9 p.m., on April 10, 1963, in Dallas, Tex., Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, an active and controversial figure on the American political scene since his resignation from the U.S. Army in 1961, narrowly escaped death when a rifle bullet fired from outside his home passed near his head as he was seated at his desk.700 There were no eyewitnesses, although a 14-year-old boy in a neighboring house claimed that immediately after the shooting he saw two men, in separate cars, drive out of a church parking lot adjacent to Walker's home.701 A friend of Walker's testified that two nights before the shooting he saw "two men around the house peeking in windows." 702 General Walker gave this information to the police before the shooting, but it did not help solve the crime. Although the bullet was recovered from Walker's house (see app. X, p. 562), in the absence of a weapon it was of little investigatory value. General Walker hired two investigators to determine whether a former employee might have been involved in the shooting.708 Their results were negative. Until December 3, 1963, the Walker shooting remained unsolved.
 
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