Did Bill O’Reilly Lie About JFK-Linked Suicide?
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Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, touts himself as an author, although his books are always co-authored so one has no idea how much the blustering Bill O’ actually contributes. In yet another dramatic episode however, the Bloviator’s past has been called into question by former colleagues.
(Newser) In his 2012 book Killing Kennedy, O’Reilly says that he was on George de Mohrenschildt’s doorstep in Palm Beach, Fla., in March 1977, ready to “confront” the friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, when “he heard the shotgun blast that marked the suicide of the Russian.” O’Reilly was a reporter for WFAA-TV in Dallas at the time, and two former colleagues at the station tell Media Matters that he was still in Texas at the time of the suicide. “He stole that article out of the newspaper,” says WFAA reporter Byron Harris. Neither former colleague recalls O’Reilly ever mentioning being present on the doorstep.
Harris and former WFAA anchor Tracy Rowlett describe O’Reilly as untrustworthy, a “jerk,” and the “most disliked man in the newsroom.” Media Matters notes that assassination investigator and O’Reilly source Gaeton Fonzi wrote in his autobiography about how O’Reilly called him to confirm Mohrenschildt’s suicide—and at his website JFKfacts.org, former Washington Post editor Jefferson Morley has recordings of O’Reilly apparently trying to chase the story down from Dallas and saying he planned to travel to Florida the next day. There is also no mention of O’Reilly in a 19-page police report on the suicide. O’Reilly didn’t address the new allegations on his show yesterday, but he said criticism directed at him and Fox was politically motivated, Raw Story reports.
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The only reason I remember exactly where I was when President Kennedy was killed was that we were going through gas mask drills at the time and the instructors to us about it when we came out of the gas chamber during training. I admit I was not immediately traumatized was because for half and hour I was cleaning crap out of my nose and throat.
I was in my second week of basic training, getting ready to do early morning grass drills, when an ADI told us that Robert Kennedy had been shot. I’ll never forget it.
Someone once said to me ‘everyone knows where they were when Kennedy was killed’
Oh well…I’ve always liked to be different 😉
Naturally he lies. That what pathological prevaricators do. They lie when a truth would actually serve them better.
When caught at it, it’s always “politically motivated” or “Jealous competitors.” Note that he never denies anything, he only tries to divert attention from it.