Should Bill O-LIE-ly get a pass for lying about a suicide linked to the JFK investigation?
As the lies accumulate, should this one be added to the list? If not, why not? Note: This isn't creative speculation as the substance does not address the conspiracy surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy. It focuses only on O'Reilly's documented lie about De Mohrenschildt's suicide. This would seem to be worse than any of Brian Williams' transgressions. Shouldn't the consequences be at least as serious? Or is there an exception for lies relating to the JFK assassination?
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2015/02/bill-o-lie-ly.html
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Bill O-LIE-ly
by Joseph Cannon
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What I want to discuss here is another Bill O'Reilly lie -- a lie which is far more important, a lie which our media seems strangely reluctant to discuss.
In his book about the assassination of JFK, O'Reilly discusses the death of George de Mohrenshchildt, Lee Harvey Oswald's strange friend who also happened to know George H.W. Bush. De Mohrenschildt's links to the CIA were investigated by none other than a young Bill O'Reilly. The enigmatic George De Mohrenschildt committed suicide in Florida on March 29, 1977, just before he was scheduled to talk to an investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassination.
There has long been a controversy as to whether this suicide was genuine. O'Reilly, in his book, attempts to resolve that question with the claim that he personally heard the shotgun blast. We are supposed to believe that de Mohrenschildt pulled the trigger at the exact moment O'Reilly knocked on the door.
That claim simply is not true.
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http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/news/reporters-tape-exposes-bill-oreillys-jfk-fib/
Investigator’s tape exposes Bill O’Reilly’s JFK fib
By Jeff Morely
January 31, 2013
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O’Reilly 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 Mohrenschildt’s daughter’s 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 reporter’s name is Bill O’Reilly.”
It’s a vivid story and well told. It’s also mostly imaginary. In fact, the reporter named Bill O’Reilly was in Dallas, Texas, on that day.
Investigator Gaeton Fonzi was a reliable source for an intrepid young reporter named Bill OReilly
The truth can be heard on a cassette tape made by Gaeton Fonzi, a congressional investigator who was O’Reilly’s most reliable source on the JFK story. Fonzi wrote about that day in his 1993 memoir, The Last Investigation: “About 6:30 that evening I received a call from Bill O’Reilly, a friend who was then a television reporter in Dallas,” wrote Fonzi, who died in August 2012. In Fonzi’s account, O’Reilly told him that he had just received a tip that de Mohrenschildt had committed suicide.
A recording of three phone conversations between Fonzi and O’Reilly on March 29, 1977, confirms Fonzi’s account. Fonzi’s widow, Marie Fonzi, shared the tape with JFK Facts.
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