Bill O'Reilly Caught on Tape Contradicting His Book

A tape made of a 1977 phone conversation with O'Reilly tells a different story than the one the host tells in one of his books.

LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS -- Episode 0142-- Pictured: (l-r) Bill O'Reilly during an interview with host Seth Meyers on December 17, 2014 --
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By David Knowles

March 2, 2015 at 9:46 PM UTC

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Sometimes the truth presents itself in a way that is difficult to refute.

For all the debate over whether Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has been, like NBC News host Brian Williams, guilty of embellishing stories about his experiences as a reporter, it seemed as though the cable news ratings sensation had been able to infuse enough doubt against those who claimed to have caught him in a lie so as to quell each successive story. But on Sunday, CNN broadcast a recording that clearly refuted claims O'Reilly made in his 2012 book, Killing Kennedy, and again on air, that he had stood on the doorstep of the home where Lee Harvey Oswald friend George de Mohrenschildt committed suicide in 1977, and had actually heard the fatal shot being fired.