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HOLY GLORY HOLES: Walker was arrested for toe-tapping twice: at Reverchon Park and Cole Park.
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On the night of April 10, 1963, retired Major General Edwin Walker was sitting at a desk when a bullet struck a window frame in his dining room. An extreme conservative, Walker was an anti-communist who spoke about "liquidating the scourge that has descended upon the island of Cuba."
Walker's home was located at 4011 Turtle Creek Blvd. right down the street from Park Cities Presbyterian Church on Oak Lawn Avenue. Authorities had no leads on the attempted murder. But after Kennedy's assassination, Marina Oswald testified that her husband had fired the shot: Lee left her a note written in Russian with instructions in case he was caught. Luckily, Walker was only injured by fragments that hit his forearm.
Fast forward to June 23, 1976, when a 66-year-old Walker was busted for public lewdness. Walker followed R. J. Stevens, an undercover policeman, into a public restroom at Cole Park on McKinney Avenue about three blocks from Walker's house.
After he made a "physical advance" to the officer, the police arrested Walker, not realizing he was a public figure.
Walker pleaded no contest, was freed on $200 bond and eventually fined $1,000 plus court costs and given a 30-day jail term probated for one year.
But then it happened again.
On March 15, 1977, Walker was busted a second time for public lewdness in the men's room at Reverchon Park. According to the Dallas Morning News, the undercover officer said Walker made "suggested sexual overtones."
While tracing Walker's steps, I recently drove from his address to Cole Park and then to Reverchon Park (noticing that the Dallas Theater Center and Lee Park are in between). Walker wasn't even venturing outside his own neighborhood. His idea of anonymous sex was cruising dudes he might run into at the local grocery store.
Walker died in 1993. He never married.
— Daniel A. Kusner
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