Background
Halloran was born in Jackson, Minnesota in 1921.
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Walter Halloran
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Halloran attended Saint Louis University.
Career
The case inspired William Peter Blatty to write his novel The Exorcist. He was the oldest of nine children. While teaching there he also coached football.
In 1963 he moved to Marquette University, where he taught history until 1966 when Halloran volunteered for chaplain duty with the United States Army.
He first served in Germany, but in 1969, at the age of 48, he volunteered for paratrooper training and then for duty in Vietnam where he would say he saw more evil than in the boy"s hospital bed back in 1949. Halloran would helicopter in to the fighting zones, sometimes staying for days on end ministering to the soldiers.
By the end of his service as a paratrooper chaplain in 1971, he had earned two Bronze Stars. After his service was over, he went back to Saint Louis in 1972 to teach at Saint Louis University High and to serve as assistant director of campus ministry and then as alumni director at Saint Louis University.
Halloran would have a variety of assignments from then on, such as being an associate pastor in his hometown of Jackson, Minnesota and running a parish ministry in San Diego, California.
In 1988, Halloran was an assistant director of the alumni office at Creighton University in Omaha. According to author Thomas B. Allen, Halloran "expressed his skepticism about potential paranormal events before his death." When asked in an interview to make a statement on whether the boy had been possessed, Halloran responded saying "Number, I can’t go on record, I never made an absolute statement about the things because I didn’t feel I was qualified.".
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He was a member of the school"s football team
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Religion
Catholic