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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill O'Reilly LIED ABOUT WITNESSING SUICIDE Of JFK Assassin's Friend, Former Co-Workers Say
As Bill OReilly continues on the warpath against those reporting on whether he embellished his combat experience, new allegations have emerged that the Fox News anchor lied about being present at a suicide in Florida. He was in Dallas, Tracy Rowlett, a former colleague of OReillys at Dallas station WFAA, told liberal watchdog Media Matters. Bill OReillys a phony -- theres no other way to put it. The Fox host has claimed on several occasions that he heard the gunshot that killed George de Mohrenschildt, a friend of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald who committed suicide at his daughters home in Florida in 1977. OReilly originally made the claim in his 2012 book, Killing Kennedy. He repeated it during an appearance on "Fox & Friends" while promoting the book: I was about to knock on the door where [de Mohrenschildt] was, his daughters house, and he blew his brains out with a shotgun, O'Reilly said (see embedded video at the bottom of this piece). He made the claim again in an adaption of Killing Kennedy for younger readers.
Rowlett and Byron Harris, another of OReillys WFAA colleagues at the time, both say the embattled host was with them at WFAAs Dallas headquarters when de Mohrenschildt died. The station "would have reported it as some kind of exclusive -- and there was no exclusive -- if O'Reilly had been standing outside the door, Harris said. Not only did WFAA run no exclusive, but the story was broken by The Dallas Morning News. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office investigation of de Mohrenschildts death does not mention OReilly. Nor does The Associated Press report of the incident, which only says de Mohrenschildt was in the house with two maids at the time, neither of which heard the gunshot. According to Rowlett and Harris, OReilly never mentioned while he was working at WFAA that he was present when de Mohrenschildt committed suicide. That came later," Rowlett said. That must have been a brain surge when he was writing the book. OReillys claim to have been in Florida is also contradicted by conversations the Fox host had with Gaeton Fonzi, an investigative journalist who wrote extensively about the Kennedy assassination. Fozi, who is now deceased, writes in his biography that he received a call from OReilly shortly after the suicide, asking for confirmation it had happened. From Fozis autobiography:
About 6:30 that evening I received a call from Bill OReilly, a friend who was then a television reporter in Dallas. Funny thing happened, he said. We just aired a story that came over the wire about a Dutch journalist saying the Assassinations Committee has finally located de Mohrenschildt in South Florida. Now de Mohrenschildts attorney, a guy named Pat Russel, he calls and says de Mohrenschildt committed suicide this afternoon. Is that true?
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The new charges promise further trouble for the embattled Fox entertainer, who since last Thursday has fended off accusations that he overstated his war reporting experience. OReilly has claimed in the past that he "reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands" during his time with CBS and "survived a combat situation in Argentina during the Falklands War. OReilly was in Buenos Aires -- 1,200 miles from the Falklands -- when the conflict ended, but maintained in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt* that the riots he witnessed in the capital constitute a combat situation.
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Bill O'Reilly LIED ABOUT WITNESSING SUICIDE Of JFK Assassin's Friend, Former Co-Workers Say (Original Post)
Segami
Feb 2015
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Drale
(7,932 posts)1. Billy boy lies every single moment of every single day
how is this at all shocking? If his mouth is open he's lying.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)2. "Brian Williams must be loving this,
at least he was in one of those helicopters."
Segami
(14,923 posts)3. LOL!
Lets hear it for a grain of truth......