Bill O’Reilly made up a JFK story. He got busted by an old tape recording
Jefferson Morley
September 18, 2018
Somebody asked me about Bill O’Reilly the other day. I said:
Final JFK assassination files due for release
Jefferson Morley
October 9, 2017
There has been widespread public speculation and in-depth research about the Kennedy assassination. A Gallup poll in 2013 showed 61% of respondents said more than one person was involved in the shooting and some pointed to the Mafia, the government, the CIA, Cuba and others as playing a role.
Source: Final JFK assassination files due for release – CNNPolitics …
CNN follows JFK Facts on the October 2017 release
Jefferson Morley
May 9, 2017
In May 2013, I published the revelation that the CIA retains 1,100 secret JFK files, which was subsequently reported by the Associated Press, Fox News, and the Boston Globe.
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CNN exposes Bill O’Reilly’s JFK fib
Jefferson Morley
November 13, 2015
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In the run-up to the 52nd anniversary of JFK’s death, we are re-running some of the most significant JFK stories of the year. In this installment from March 2014, CNN picked up on a story first published on JFK Facts.
Bill O’Reilly’s JFK fib was exposed by reporter’s audio tape
Jefferson Morley
August 31, 2015
In his best-selling book Killing Kennedy, Bill O’Reilly tells a brief tale of an intrepid reporter — himself — chasing the historical truth of JFK’s assassination in south Florida. But the story itself is a fiction, as O’Reilly revealed in his own voice in an audio recording first published on JFK Facts.
CNN’s Brian Stelter picked up on the story, and I explained what really happened. …
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Truth, lies and mythmaking
Jefferson Morley
March 6, 2015
“Slamming O’Reilly for O’Reilly-osity surely misses the point,” says Slate. …
Dismantling Bill O’Reilly: The last chapter
Jefferson Morley
March 2, 2015
CNN’s Brian Stelter explains the questions about the suddenly silent Fox news host. I provide some answers. And, mercy mercy mercy, Bill O’Reilly doesn’t have a word to say. …
O’Reilly debunks O’Reilly: ‘I’m coming to Florida’
Jefferson Morley
March 1, 2015
CNN has posted a story about Bill O’Reilly’s JFK fib that retells the episode first reported in JFK Facts–but with superior audio quality. Watch it here.
O’Reilly not contesting the facts of his JFK fib
petervoskamp
February 26, 2015
Bill O’Reilly seems to have muzzled himself. The publication of David Corn’s “Bill O’Reilly Has His Brian Williams Problem,” followed by the re-publication of JFK Facts’ Jan. 30, 2013, story “Investigators tape exposes Bill O’Reilly’s JFK fib” has done what some thought impossible: The embattled Fox News host has stopped blustering.
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One million visitors to JFK Facts can’t be wrong
Jefferson Morley
December 30, 2014
Late on the night of November 13, 2014, JFK Facts welcomed its one millionth site visitor, fulfilling the goal that Rex Bradford and I had when we launched the site on November 22, 2012: to establish the premier Web destination for quality information and informed debate about the assassination of the liberal president.
None of this would have been possible without Rex. With the help of Comments Editor Peter Voskamp and Copy Editor Bill Hogan, I’m looking forward to growing the site’s audience even more in the next year. Exactly how to do that is a challenge we all face.
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Jackie Kennedy and the anguish of gun violence
Jefferson Morley
December 17, 2014
“Now a half century later, it is time for all the Jacqueline Kennedy letters to be available for historians, allowing for a more full and accurate understanding about one of the most dramatic moments in 20th century U.S. history. Efforts by the Kennedy family to keep these letters at bay only mute our comprehension of what truly happened on that tragic day in Dallas and the kind of psychological damage that gun violence can wreak on the lives of innocent survivors.”
via The anguish of Jackie Kennedy – CNN.com.
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What “The Sixties” tries hard to overlook
Jefferson Morley
June 13, 2014
Deb Galatine, a la Facebook. #wakeupCNN
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Text: ‘Toward the decisive clarification of JFK’s assassination in 2014’
Jefferson Morley
February 10, 2014
[Editor’s note: At the request of Ronnie Dugger, I am posting a transcript of my remarks to the JFK Lancer conference in Dallas last November. You can also download a PDF of the transcript. Thanks to the tireless Alan Dale for his introduction and his transcription.]
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2013 JFK Facts scoop #3: the Air Force One tapes
Jefferson Morley
December 27, 2013
On Oct. 19, I reported on the first public airing of restored and enhanced recordings of communciations to and from Air Force One on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. My story, “Enhanced Air Force One tapes capture a top general’s response to JFK’s murder,” was soon picked up by other national news sites.
The story was one of three scoops scored by JFK Facts in 2013.
Here’s how the story spread. …
How the stupid JFK conspiracy debate misleads us
Jefferson Morley
November 18, 2013
The estimable Andrew Sullivan has weighed in on the JFK conspiracy question. He claims Oswald Killed Kennedy, Period. So has Slate’s Fred Kaplan. He argues that even the best JFK conspiracy theories are bunk.
Let me say I think Sullivan and Kaplan are among the very best online journalists we have. I’m glad to say I count them as friendly acquaintances. I’m sorry to say I also think they have fallen victim of JFK denialism: the very Washington impulse to dismiss troubling evidence in the JFK story. …