Just as a sidenote, Kennedy's Press Secretary Pierre Salinger (who also starred in an episode of Batman!) mentioned in
his book that when he and the rest of Kennedy's cabinet heard via commercial radio of the shooting during their trip to Japan,
Secretary of State Dean Rusk instructed Salinger to contact the White House on the Executive plane's radio and relate that
the group would be diverting to Dallas.
One must note that during such delicate situations, code names are often designated and for Salinger, he went under the
moniker 'Wayside'.
After a short conversation with the White House Situation Room, Salinger returned to Rusk and informed him that they were
to fly to Andrews Air Force Base in Washington. When Dean Rusk asked who the Press Secretary (Salinger) had spoken to,
Pierre replied someone called 'Stranger'. Wishing to discover out the real name of this unknown person in the basement of the
White House, the ruffled Secretary of State went to the aircraft's safe where the code books were kept for such trying times.
These essential manuals include instructions for the Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 bomber defence system and the
procedures of utilising nuclear armaments if it is deemed the US is under attack. Obviously, strict sequences are required for
a B-52's release of these devastating weapons would be required and code names for everything would be a fundamental part
of the practice.
However, when Dean Rusk opened the plane's safe, the code book was missing and due to this abnormal incident, the
Secretary of State had to break security protocol to identify themselves. But what all those on that interrupted flight to a
conference regarding Vietnam were unaware of was that ALL the code books in the respective safes on the B-52 bombers
in the air at that moment had also been removed.
The person in the White House Situation Room code-named 'Stranger' turned out to be Major Harold Patterson and as the
media rushed to explain who they believed was the assassin of John Kennedy, a subordinate to Major Patterson relayed to
Pierre Salinger what he was told to relate in regards of what they knew at that time.
This person was US Navy officer Oliver Hallett and during the information coming out of the commercial radio news-wire
service about the killing in Dealey Plaza, Hallett recognised the name of Lee Harvey Oswald. When Oswald was in the US
embassy in Moscow handing over his passport and announcing his defection, Oliver Hallett was the Naval attache and
actually in the room when Oswald explained his intent. Hallett's wife was also a secretary in the Embassy at the time
of the incident.
Another coincidence!
..............................................
So all the official code books to launch a nuclear retaliation against a possible attack had been removed from the B-52s in the
skies during the assassination. Why?
his book that when he and the rest of Kennedy's cabinet heard via commercial radio of the shooting during their trip to Japan,
Secretary of State Dean Rusk instructed Salinger to contact the White House on the Executive plane's radio and relate that
the group would be diverting to Dallas.
One must note that during such delicate situations, code names are often designated and for Salinger, he went under the
moniker 'Wayside'.
After a short conversation with the White House Situation Room, Salinger returned to Rusk and informed him that they were
to fly to Andrews Air Force Base in Washington. When Dean Rusk asked who the Press Secretary (Salinger) had spoken to,
Pierre replied someone called 'Stranger'. Wishing to discover out the real name of this unknown person in the basement of the
White House, the ruffled Secretary of State went to the aircraft's safe where the code books were kept for such trying times.
These essential manuals include instructions for the Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 bomber defence system and the
procedures of utilising nuclear armaments if it is deemed the US is under attack. Obviously, strict sequences are required for
a B-52's release of these devastating weapons would be required and code names for everything would be a fundamental part
of the practice.
However, when Dean Rusk opened the plane's safe, the code book was missing and due to this abnormal incident, the
Secretary of State had to break security protocol to identify themselves. But what all those on that interrupted flight to a
conference regarding Vietnam were unaware of was that ALL the code books in the respective safes on the B-52 bombers
in the air at that moment had also been removed.
The person in the White House Situation Room code-named 'Stranger' turned out to be Major Harold Patterson and as the
media rushed to explain who they believed was the assassin of John Kennedy, a subordinate to Major Patterson relayed to
Pierre Salinger what he was told to relate in regards of what they knew at that time.
This person was US Navy officer Oliver Hallett and during the information coming out of the commercial radio news-wire
service about the killing in Dealey Plaza, Hallett recognised the name of Lee Harvey Oswald. When Oswald was in the US
embassy in Moscow handing over his passport and announcing his defection, Oliver Hallett was the Naval attache and
actually in the room when Oswald explained his intent. Hallett's wife was also a secretary in the Embassy at the time
of the incident.
Another coincidence!
..............................................
So all the official code books to launch a nuclear retaliation against a possible attack had been removed from the B-52s in the
skies during the assassination. Why?
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