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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSerial Liar: Intrepid young reporter named Bill OReilly - 1977 Lies About JFK Assassination
Last edited Sun Feb 22, 2015, 01:26 PM - Edit history (1)
Buenos Aires -- Falklands: 1200 miles
Dallas -- Palm Beach: 1200 miles
Maybe Bill was in some sort of time travel accident and his brain came back offset by 1/20th of the earths circumference. Probably didn't account for the earths rotation or something.
In OReillys account, the dramatic incident happened on March 29, 1977. The Fox News talk show host was then a 28-year-old television reporter in Dallas seeking to make a name for himself by investigating a popular subject that media elites habitually disdained: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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De Mohrenschildt was good copy. He was probably the only person on the planet on friendly terms with both the family of First Lady Jackie Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of killing her husband. De Mohrenschildt may not have been a paid CIA employee, but as JFK investigators closed in on him, he expected CIA assistance. In September 1976, he wrote to CIA director George H.W. Bush seeking help for his hopeless situation. Bush, the only CIA director to become president, ignored him, while privately telling CIA colleagues they had a slight acquaintance. De Mohrenschildts testimony to the House Select Committee on Assassinations was expected to be explosive.
OReilly spins the story with third person modesty in Killing Kennedy (p. 300), calling himself the reporter. He wrote that he:
traced de Mohrenschildt to Palm Beach, Florida and travelled there to confront him. At the time de Mohrenschildt had been called to testify before a congressional committee looking into the events of November 1963. As the reporter knocked on the door of de Mohrenschildts daughters home, he heard the shotgun blast that marked the suicide of the Russian, assuring that his relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald would never be fully understood.
By the way, that reporters name is Bill OReilly.
Its a vivid story and well told. Its also mostly imaginary. In fact, the reporter named Bill OReilly was in Dallas, Texas, on that day.
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A recording of three phone conversations between Fonzi and OReilly on March 29, 1977, confirms Fonzis account. Fonzis widow, Marie Fonzi, shared the tape with JFK Facts.
Gaet liked OReilly and did lots to help him, Marie Fonzi said in an email. He hired him in the early 70s when editor of Miami Magazine at $25 a month to write movie reviews. He wrote letters of reference for him and was instrumental in getting him his first TV shot. But she adds, I know OReilly was in Dallas on March 29, 1977. There is no question about it.
OReilly is right about one thing. He was indeed pursuing George de Mohrenschildt in March 1977, but he did not reach his doorstep in Palm Beach on March 29, 1977, and he certainly did not hear de Mohrenschildts demise with his own ears. When the fatal shot rang out, OReilly was in his office at the WFAA studios in Dallas, Texas, more than 1,200 miles away. The confirmation comes from OReilly himself as he calls Fonzi to break the news.
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http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/news/reporters-tape-exposes-bill-oreillys-jfk-fib/#more-2557
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Serial Liar: Intrepid young reporter named Bill OReilly - 1977 Lies About JFK Assassination (Original Post)
kpete
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Earth Bound Misfit
(3,554 posts)1. IOKIYAR
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grasswire
(50,130 posts)2. just sent this to David Corn nt
zappaman
(20,606 posts)3. I heard he helped write The Gettyburg Address.
The man just has a knack for being in the right place at the right time!