Walker, Sorrels, Hosty -- the Ringleaders

edwinwalker
Dec 22, 2025
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<Collage: James Hosty, FBI; Forrest Sorrels, SS; Ex-General Edwin Walker, ca. 1963>

I interrupt this history of George De Mohrenschildt to summarize our JFK Conspiracy Theory (CT) -- its origin and development.

Most folks who follow Jason and me know our work on John Simkin's "JFK Education Forum" from 2010 to 2017. On that Forum I first came out with my "General Walker-did-it" theory, and quickly met Harry Dean (who died in 2022 at the age of 95).

Harry confirmed my CT, as this had been his own CT since January 1965 -- shortly after the Warren Commission (WC) published its findings.

Speaking of which, I will quote WC member, Allen Dulles, whose secretary, Jacques Zwart, asked him who really killed JFK. Dulles told Zwart, in effect, "The answer is inside the pages of the WC documents -- but one must become an expert at hair-splitting."

I agree; the answer is there -- but one must carefully read the whole WC -- and in my experience, most critics and Conspiracy Theory advocates (CTers) do not read the WC documents carefully enough.

So, from 2012 to 2017, I engaged renowned historian professor H.W. Brands at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) in independent study to cover the Warren Commission volumes in full detail, in conjunction with the 90 boxes of personal papers of General Walker stored at UT Austin.

My results confirmed what Harry Dean had told me, and what I had suspected about the resigned General Edwin Walker -- the only US General to resign in the 20th century.

I will be very brief here. I say that the Washington DC headquarters of the CIA, the FBI, and the Secret Service were all taken by surprise by the JFK Assassination.

Yet, as the HSCA admitted in 1979, rogue individuals in these organizations were likely involved in a civilian conspiracy.

(Yes, they were. Two low-level CIA agents confessed to minor roles -- Howard Hunt and David Morales. One high-level CIA agent, David Atlee Phillips, said in a novel, that he had groomed LHO to kill Fidel Castro from a tall building as he drove by in his open car -- but somebody "hijacked" LHO to kill JFK in the same way.)

The FBI was abundantly clear -- there was no foreign conspiracy involved in the JFK Assassination. This confirmed that the JFK plot was entirely domestic. In my analysis of the WC documents -- it was entirely a Dallas affair.

In my theory, three residents of Dallas held the highest roles in the JFK Conspiracy, namely:

1. Resigned General Edwin A. Walker

2. Dallas Secret Service agent Forrest Sorrels

3. Dallas FBI agent James Hosty

Walker had proclaimed himself an enemy of JFK ever since the deadly racial riots at Ole Miss in 1962, after which JFK and RFK sent Walker to an insane asylum, thereby crushing every political ambition of Walker.

Forrest Sorrels, learning from General Walker that Dealey Plaza was the ideal arena for multiple-angle crossfire -- convinced the Washington DC Secret Service that Dealey Plaza was entirely safe.

James Hosty, in support of General Walker, deliberately lied to the Secret Service PRS, telling them that there were no suspicious people in Dallas at the time.

The branch of the US Secret Service charged with the protection of every President while traveling in the US was the PRS (Protective Research Section). The PRS relied on the local FBI offices to obtain the names of every dangerous person in the city in question. James Hosty knew of Walker's plot to frame Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) for the JFK killing (affirmed Harry Dean) and he was careful to tell the PRS that there were "no dangerous subjects in Dallas."

That was surprising to the PRS, since Adlai Stevenson had been physically attacked in Dallas only four weeks earlier. But James Hosty was firm on the point and repeated it. The PRS following protocol, accepted Hosty's report.

This was confirmed by the WC testimony of Dallas Police Lieutenant Jack Revill, who testified that James Hosty had boasted that he knew that Lee Harvey Oswald might harm JFK. But this was General Walker's central plot -- that the future suspect, LHO, had to be walking around freely in Dallas when JFK rode through town.

I repeat: without these measures by Sorrels and Hosty, the JFK Assassination would have been IMPOSSIBLE. Together they guaranteed that the Secret Service PRS and FBI headquarters would be taken by surprise.

Once the fix was in, the rest of the ground operation for the JFK plot could proceed. In my theory, that ground operation had three additional key characters in crucial roles, namely:

3. Dallas Sheriff Bill Decker

4. Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry

5. Dallas Police Captain Will Fritz

Bill Decker assigned top deputies to pretend to discover the sixth floor rifle, sniper's nest and bullets. (They had obtained LHO's rifle from LHO himself, I opine, who believed he was handing it off to one of Guy Banister's men.)

Police Chief Jesse Curry arranged for Dallas police to enable members of the Dallas Minutemen (among whom were many Dallas police) to shoot LHO on sight on any street in Dallas. LHO had already been well-framed in New Orleans radio, newspapers, and TV news as a self-avowed supporter of Fidel Castro.

(Actually, his FPCC branch in New Orleans was a Fake -- and even J. Edgar Hoover admitted that fact in his WC testimony.)

Just in case that failed, Captain Will Fritz would protect LHO from exposure to the Press until some new method of killing LHO was found.

The larger narrative of the plot was that LHO was a Communist acting for Russia and Cuba along with Michael Paine, Ruth Paine and other left-wingers.

This was expected to inspire America to rise up in righteous wrath against Cuba, and erase Fidel Castro.

It was allegedly a patriotic duty. Only local, trusted parties were involved in the JFK Assassination. Nobody was paid for any part of this conspiracy. The shooters were all members of the Dallas Minutemen -- a secret organization for which no membership lists were ever kept.

Yes, other Minutemen around the nation were involved. Joseph Milteer was a prominent advocate of this conspiracy, as demonstrated by FBI informant Willie Somerset. Yet Milteer was photographed in the crowd at Dealey Plaza that day, so it is clear he was not a shooter.

The most thorough publication about these players to date is the 2015 book by Jeffrey Caufield, namely, "General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy." (My only difference with Caufield's book is over his speculation that Walker and LHO had somehow cooperated.)

In my theory, LHO tried to kill General Walker back in April 10, 1963 because he was prompted to do so by George De Mohrenschildt and to some degree by associates Michael Paine, Everett Glover, and Volkmar Schmidt.

That failed attempt ruined LHO's life, as it sent him quickly into the arms of David Ferrie, Guy Banister, Edward Butler, Carlos Bringuier, and Bill Stuckey. Their actions would ultimately frame Oswald as a Communist in the eyes of the world.

I say the CIA did not kill JFK. I say that before the close of business on November 22, 1963, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover figured out exactly which Dallas leaders led the plot against JFK. Hoover quickly saw that no foreign conspiracy was involved, contrary to the propaganda of Dallas leaders.

Though Hoover knew who killed JFK, he would not tell the world -- on the contrary, he did everything possible to hide the fact. Nevertheless, Hoover did not side with the killers or with their goal to blame the Communists for killing JFK.

Hoover's motivation, therefore, was not to side with the killers, but was twofold: (1) to prevent rioting in US streets during the Cold War if the truth ever came out; and (2) to foil their goal of invading Cuba, sparking WW3.

In support of my theory, Jason Ward constructed this website in 2017, and it contains years of essays based entirely on a careful reading of the WC documents as overseen by H.W. Brands. This is the way to solve the JFK Assassination, I say.

I repeat: STOP SEARCHING CIA DOCUMENTS. It's been 60 years and we've wasted all that time and expertise on that blind alley.

I repeat: START SEARCHING FBI DOCUMENTS. Especially those close to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover himself, and especially regarding General Walker, Forrest Sorrels, and James Hosty.

Thank you,

--Paul Trejo