Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Welch defended former Gen. Edwin D. Walker, a professed Birchite, as a "patriotic, good-intentioned American" who is "innocent of any illegal action" at the University of Mississippi...
...ransom the Bay of Pigs prisoners. But it was neither open nor honest. The Administration put up a strained pretense that Donovan was negotiating as a private citizen on behalf of an organization called the Cuban Families Committee for Liberation of Prisoners of War. Assistant Secretary of State Edwin M. Martin flatly declared that Donovan "has no connection with the Administration." The Justice Department admitted that Donovan had conferred with Attorney General Kennedy several times, but insisted that the visits were merely "courtesy calls...
Watson. President J. Edwin Warren, General Counsel Henry L. O'Brien) and two Sinclair officers (Chairman Percy C. Spencer. President Edward L. Steiniger...
...Texas, a weird call to arms was sounded by Edwin A. Walker, sometime U.S. Army major general, who resigned his commission after being officially admonished for wild right-wing talk. Walker appealed to Americans "from every state" to march to Barnett's aid. His cry rang out all over the Deep South with a special meaning-for Walker was the man who commanded the U.S. troops that President Eisenhower sent to Little Rock...
...only prisoner with a claim to fame was Edwin A. Walker. He had arrived in Mississippi the day before the battle, proclaiming that the court orders on Meredith were part of "the conspiracy of the crucifixion by Antichrist conspirators of the Supreme Court." On the night of the battle, he was observed by newsmen and a campus minister to be holding forth at a sort of informal command post. Every now and then somebody would run up to him and ask for military counsel. One man who got close to him reported that "there was a wild, dazed look...