Ruth Paine was a friend of Marina Oswald, wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, who was living with her at the time of the JFK assassination. According to four government investigations, Lee Harvey Oswald stored the 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle that he used to assassinate U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Ruth Paine’s garage, unbeknownst to her and her husband, Michael Paine. This is the “official” story but is there much more to her involvement?

General Edwin A. Walker was the only U.S. Army general officer to resign his commission amid his tour of duty in the 20th century. Was he a patriot, a madman, or a little of both? What was his connection to Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assassination? To General Pedro A. Del Valle? To the Rev. Billy James Hargis? To Archibald E. Roberts? Roberts was educated at the Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Information School, the Airborne School, and the Medical Field Service School. Roberts, an ex-paratrooper, served with the 11th Airborne Division, the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, the 101st Airborne Division, and the 3rd Infantry Division as an Army information officer. While under the command of General Edwin A. Walker in Augsburg, Germany, 1959-1960, Roberts served as a special projects officer. He wrote and directed the 24th Infantry Division “Pro Blue” troop information program which became the central issue in the 1962 Senate “military muzzling” investigations. He was relieved of active duty by order of the Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance, on May 7, 1962, following a speech before the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, D.C. General Walker was relieved of command in 1961 after the accusation that he and LTC Roberts had distributed John Birch Society literature to troops under them in that program. Roberts was the author or Victory Denied. I met him in 1973.

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