Editing Walter Jenkins (section)

==Later years and legacy==
Jenkins resigned from the Air Force Reserve in February 1965.<ref>''New York Times'': [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0D15F93F58167A93C1A91789D85F418685F9& "Air Force Reserve Accepts Walter Jenkins' Resignation," February 3, 1965]. Retrieved November 13, 2010</ref>

After leaving Washington, Jenkins returned to Texas and lived the rest of his life in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], where he worked as a [[Certified Public Accountant]] and [[Management consulting|management consultant]] and ran a construction company. He died in 1985, at the age of 67, a few months after suffering a [[stroke]].<ref>{{cite news | author=Barnes, Bart | title=LBJ Aide Walter Jenkins Dies | page=C4 | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=1985-11-26}}</ref>

A made-for-television film, ''Vanished'', loosely based on the Jenkins resignation, aired in 1971.<ref>Internet Movie Database: [Vanished (TV 1971)"]. Retrieved November 13, 2010</ref>

The Tony-award winning play, ''[[All the Way (play)|All the Way]]'', and its [[All the Way (2016 film)|television adaptation]], about Lyndon Johnson's first year in office from the [[Kennedy assassination]] on November 22, 1963 until the [[1964 United States presidential election|1964 election]] on November 3, both depict the 1964 scandal involving Jenkins. In the film adaptation, Jenkins is portrayed by Todd Weeks.

Canadian playwright [[Steven Elliott Jackson]] wrote a play that stages an imaginary meeting and one-night-stand between Jenkins and civil rights activist [[Bayard Rustin]] called ''The Seat Next to the King''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nowtoronto.com/stage/theatre/the-seat-next-to-the-king-mixes-race-politics-and-forbidden-/|title=Theatre Review for The Seat Next to the King|last=|first=|date=22 September 2017|website=NowToronto|access-date=}}</ref>  Directed by Tanisha Taitt and starring Conor Ling as Jenkins (along with Kwaku Okyere as Rustin), the play won the award for Best New Play at the 2017 [[Toronto Fringe Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/awards-contests|title=Toronto Fringe Festival Awards and Contests|last=|first=|work=Toronto Fringe Festival |date=11 May 2017|access-date=}}</ref>