‘I’m a patsy’: The George de Mohrenschildt story
Jefferson Morley
September 23, 2018
I am a Patsy! – The Lost Tapes of George De Mohrenschildt from E2 Films on Vimeo.
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:
USA Today (almost) tells the story of George de Mohrenschildt
Jefferson Morley
November 14, 2017
As I said the other day, perhaps the best news coverage of the new JFK files comes from USA Today. But it could be better.
In this October 27 dispatch, Ray Locker uses the new JFK files to lay out the incredible story of George de Mohrenschildt. He was a geologist, a bon vivant, and a CIA informant who just happened–quite coincidentally, perhaps–to befriend a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas in the fall of 1962.
The only problem with Locker’s account is that it ends with de Mohrenschildt’s untimely death in 1977. Locker could have, and should have, reported the rest of the story.
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Reporting on the Kennedy Assassination
Jefferson Morley
May 13, 2017
Most saliently, Reporting on the Kennedy Assassination offers an intimate look at Oltmans’s collaboration with de Mohrenschildt on the book that would later become Lee Harvey Oswald as I Knew Him, and at the circumstances surrounding de Mohrenschildt’s death and his possible implication in Oswald’s actions.
New book recounts the ordeal of George de Mohrenschildt, friend of Lee Oswald
Jefferson Morley
December 17, 2016
In “Reporting on the Kennedy Assassination,” the late Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans tells the story of his investigation of the JFK’s murder, especially his relationship with the enigmatic figure of George de Mohrenschildt, friend of Lee Oswald and sometime CIA asset. …
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Violent deaths forced Congress to re-open the JFK investigations
Jefferson Morley
August 30, 2016
In 1976, Congress re-opened the investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy after three key witnesses died violent deaths within a year. …
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Meet Joan Mellen, a prolific provocateur of American history
Jefferson Morley
April 12, 2016
There is no JFK author more provocative, more entertaining, more knowledgeable, more infuriating, and more fun than Joan Mellen. …
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Investigator’s tape exposes Bill O’Reilly’s JFK fib
Jefferson Morley
March 2, 2016
(First published in JFK Facts, January 30, 2013)
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 reveals here in his own voice.
In the annals of the JFK assassination story, rife with CIA and FBI malfeasance, O’Reilly’s fanciful anecdote might seem trivial. It is not the saddest feature of his book, which manages to ignore all of the high-quality JFK assassination scholarship of the last two decades.
But as O’Reilly’s yarn is presented as fact in USA Today and the Fort-Worth Telegram; as his book dominates the best-seller charts; and as a credulous National Geographic embarks on making a documentary of Killing Kennedy, O’Reilly’s credibility matters.
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Comment of the week
Tom S.
January 12, 2016
Tom Scully – January 11
Let’s see if I have this right, Ed Butler is in Hale Bogg’s office in the capitol playing the Oswald radio debate tape before AF-1 unloads JFK’s Dallas casket. See: https://jfkfacts.org/assassination/comment-of-the-week-10/#comment-847322 …