Oliver Sawyer Hallet

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Oliver Hallet and Pierre Salinger

At 1:33 P.M. CST, acting press secretary Malcolm Kilduff confirmed at a Dallas news conference that President Kennedy died, officially, at 1:00 P.M. CST. Within minutes the information was relayed to the Boeing 707 (known by its tail number 86972) carrying Pierre Salinger and six members of the Cabinet who had been heading toward Japan.

Date: 

 Nov 22, 1963

Time: 

 13:40

Participants: 

 Pierre Salinger, Oliver Hallet

Conversation Number: 

 0-969-1

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Pierre Salinger and Oliver Hallet

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Approximately 35,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean and 900 hundred miles west of Honolulu, the VIP Boeing 707 known as SAM 86972 was carrying six members of the Cabinet and Pierre Salinger to a conference in Tokyo when it received a garbled but alarming bulletin over the UPI∇teletype. At Dean Rusk∇'s instruction, press secretary Pierre Salinger contacted the White House Situation Room to confirm the news about shots being fired at the President's motorcade in Dallas. Navy Commander Oliver Hallett took the inquiry from Salinger, who could not remember any code names but his own. Hallett struggled to deliver the blood-curdling confirmation dispassionately, though misstatements and his tone betrayed Hallett's own shock at the news.

Date: 

 Nov 22, 1963

Time: 

 12:45

Participants: 

 Pierre Salinger, Oliver Hallet

Conversation Number: 

 0-969-1

Direct URL: 

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Oliver Sawyer Hallett

Captain Oliver Hallett, USN was born 1 December 1923 in Denver, Colorado and died at Hinsdale, Illinois on 30 October 1992.

Naval Career Highlights (June 1943 to July 1945):

Graduated from Phillips Academy and from the US Naval Academy.

He served on various submarines, including Executive Officer on the USS Piper SS409 in 1957, and was the Commanding Officer of the USS TIRU SS416 from August 1961 through February 1963.

Captain Hallett was a White House naval assistant in the terms of Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He was duty officer in the Situation Room when President Kennedy was shot on 22 November 1963.

He also served in diplomatic assignments in the former Soviet Union and in the Federal Republic of Germany.

When he was at Great Lakes, his command included 300 officers and 15,000 recruits. He was there from 1972 until he retired in 1975.

He was awarded the

Legion of Merit.

Oliver Sawyer Hallet, Former Naval Assistant

Chicago Sun-Times

October 31, 1992

Retired Navy Capt. Oliver Sawyer Hallet, 69, White House naval assistant under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, died Friday in the Hinsdale home where he had lived for 10 years. When he retired in 1975, he was commanding officer of recruit training at Great Lakes Naval Station. His 30-year career in the U.S. Navy included submarine command and diplomatic assignments in the former Soviet Union and the Federal …

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Unbeknownst to Commander Hallett, he is about to become a member of one of the world’s most exclusive clubs. Back in October 11959, Hallett and his wife were working for the U.S. mission in Moscow – Hallett as the naval attaché, Joan as a receptionist – when a twenty-year old ex-Marine walked in the door and loudly announced his intention to renounce his U.S. citizenship. The Halletts have never had a reason to remember the young man after that, except that in some obnoxious way, the name and face of the ex-Marine were unforgettable. 33. In about two hours Commander Hallett will be counted among the tiny number of people who can say they have met both John F. Kennedy and his accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

33. Manchester, Death, 30-31

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - October 31, 1992
Deceased Name: Oliver Sawyer Hallet , Former Naval Assistant
Retired Navy Capt. Oliver Sawyer Hallet, 69, White House naval assistant under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, died Friday in the Hinsdale home where he had lived for 10 years. When he retired in 1975, he was commanding officer of recruit training at Great Lakes Naval Station. His 30-year career in the U.S. Navy included submarine command and diplomatic assignments in the former Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany.

He was a graduate of Phillips Andover (Mass.) Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Survivors include his wife, Joan; a son, Christopher; two daughters, Carolyn Maginnis and Polly Kawalek; a brother, Moses; a sister, Katherine Sutton, and five grandchildren. A memorial mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Isaac Jogues Church, 408 S. Vine St., Hinsdale.

Ex-navy Capt. Oliver Hallett, Supervised Great Lakes Recruits
October 31, 1992 | By Kenan Heise.
Oliver Sawyer Hallett, 68, a retired captain in the Navy, was the commanding officer in charge of recruits at Great Lakes Naval Base in the early 1970s, then the largest naval training command in the country. A resident of Hinsdale for the last 10 years, he died Friday at home. ``He really cared about people,`` his daughter-in-law, Jackie Lustig, said.
``He was very intelligent and had integrity. A lot of people are going to remember him.``