".....was
chasing a story that a figure in the investigation of the JFK assassination had committed suicide in Florida.
He was calling Fonzi, a congressional investigator,
to confirm.
“You hear anything about it?” O’Reilly asked, according to phone recordings provided to CNN by Gaeton’s widow, Marie Fonzi.
The phone recordings indicate that O’Reilly learned of the suicide second-hand and was in a different location at the time.
Years later, however, O’Reilly would repeatedly claim to have been at the scene. In his 2012 book “Killing Kennedy,” O’Reilly wrote that he knocked on the door of a South Florida home when
suddenly he “heard the shotgun blast that marked the suicide” of George de Mohrenschildt, a Russian immigrant who knew Lee Harvey Oswald.
While promoting the book,
O’Reilly said on Fox News that he “was about to knock on the door” when de Mohrenschildt “blew his brains out with a shotgun.” The discrepancies were first reported by JFK researcher Jefferson Morley in 2013. But his fact-checking didn’t get much attention at the time, and the low-quality recordings he posted on his website made it difficult to understand what O’Reilly and Fonzi were saying.
Earlier this week, amid scrutiny about how O’Reilly has recounted some of his journalistic exploits, the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America drew new attention to Morley’s fact-checking.
CNN then obtained higher-quality recordings from Fozni’s widow...."
http://wtvr.com/2015/03/01/the-oreilly-tapes-jfk-story/
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