proper at that time to give the general a corrected copy. Would you state your full name for the record, please?
General WALKER. Edwin A. Walker. A stands for Anderson.

Mr. Liebeler.

What is your address?
General WALKER. 4011 Turtle Creek Boulevard, Dallas, Tex.

Mr. Liebeler.

How long have you lived there?
General WALKER. I believe since December of 1961 or January of 1962. I am not sure of the month I moved in.

Mr. Liebeler.

I don't think we have to indicate a great deal of your background for the record, since I think we all know who you are, but you are a retired major general, are you not?
General WALKER. No. I am former major general, now resigned from the U.S. Army.

Mr. Liebeler.

You resigned from the Army. Where were you originally born and raised, general?
General WALKER. At Center Point, Tex. I was born in 1909, November 10. Center Point is Kerr County. It is C-e-n-t-e-r P-o-i-n-t, Kerr County, Tex. That is 60 miles west of San Antonio.

Mr. Liebeler.

Since your resignation from the Army and your taking up residence in Dallas, you have been active, have you not, in various political endeavors here in Dallas and throughout the United States?
General WALKER. Patriotic and political endeavors.

Mr. Liebeler.

It is my understanding that on the evening of April 10, 1963, some person fired a shot at you while you were in your home on Turtle Creek Boulevard; is that correct?
General WALKER. That is correct.

Mr. Liebeler.

Would you tell us the circumstances surrounding that event, as you can now recall them?
General WALKER. I was sitting behind my desk. It was right at 9 o'clock, and most of the lights were on in the house and the shades were up. I was sitting down behind a desk facing out from a corner, with my head over a pencil and paper working on my income tax when I heard a blast and a crack right over my head.

Mr. Liebeler.

What did you do then?
General WALKER. I thought--we had been fooling with the screens on the house and I thought that possibly somebody had thrown a firecracker, that it exploded right over my head through the window right behind me. Since there is a church back there, often there are children playing back there. Then I looked around and saw that the screen was not out, but was in the window, and this couldn't possibly happen, so I got up and walked around the desk and looked back where I was sitting and I saw a hole in the wall which would have been to my left while I was sitting to my right as I looked back, and the desk was catercornered in the corner up against this wall. I noticed there was a hole in the wall, so I went upstairs and got a pistol and came back down and went out the back door, taking a look to see what might have happened.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you find anything outside that you 'could relate to this attack on you?
General WALKER. No, sir; I couldn't. As I crossed a window coming downstairs in front, I saw a car at the bottom of the church alley just making a turn onto Turtle Creek. The car was unidentifiable. I could see the two back lights, and you have to look through trees there, and I could see it moving out. This car would have been about at the right time for anybody that was making a getaway.

Mr. Liebeler.

Now as I understand it, there is an alley that runs directly at the rear of your house; is that correct?
General WALKER. yes, sir.

Mr. Liebeler.

Does that alley run directly into Turtle Creek Boulevard, or does it join with another alley?
General WALKER. No, sir; it joins with another alley, and it joins with the street called Avondale.

Mr. Liebeler.

So that to get--

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