
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.

In fact, the reporter named Bill O'Reilly was in Dallas, Texas, on that day. 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." At the time de Mohrenschildt had been called to testify before a congressional committee looking into the events of November 1963. 300), calling himself "the reporter." He wrote that he traced de Mohrenschildt to Palm Beach, Florida and travelled there to confront him. O'Reilly spins the story with third person modesty in Killing Kennedy (p. De Mohrenschildt's testimony to the House Select Committee on Assassinations was expected to be explosive. 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. In September 1976, he wrote to CIA director George H.W.

De Mohrenschildt was not a paid CIA employee, but as JFK investigators closed in on him, he expected CIA assistance. 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. A Russian emigre who moved in both European high society and the American underworld, de Mohrenschildt would have made a splendid character in a Graham Greene novel, except he was a real living CIA asset involved in the events that would culminate in JFK's murder in Dallas on November 22,1963.ĭe Mohrenschildt was good copy. Working in Dallas at a time when Congress re-opened the JFK investigation in the mid-1970s, O'Reilly scored some real scoops, especially about a man named George de Mohrenschildt.
