This post has been updated on March 2 1015 at httpJFKCountercoup.blogspot.com
- Bill Kelly
- Bill Kelly
On Tue, Sep 11,
2012 at 5:01 PM , Bob
Sirkin wrote:
In the spring of 1976, (Sic 1977) at WFAA-TV Dallas, my boss, the
legendary Marty Haag, dispatched Bill O'Reilly and me to Palm
Beach , Florida on a midnight Braniff Airlines flight.
Our mission: to find a missing Bishop
College professor, a former Russian
petroleum engineer and CIA operative, a
white Russian Baron named George deMorenschieldt, a man who befriended Lee
Harvey Oswald and wife Marina upon their return to Dallas
from Russia .
O’Reilly and I, along with WFAA-TV Reporter Doug Fox, had
been on the trail of deMorenchieldt for weeks, since his suspicious
disappearance from the campus of Bishop
College , where deMorenschieldt
taught and lived. It was Doug Fox who dug up the fact that Bishop
College , a small, black liberal
arts school, had received funding from the CIA .
Bill O'Reilly had been tipped by his friend Gaeton
Fonzi, investigator for the House Committee on Assassinations (JFK and MLK ),
that deMohrenschildt was at the famous Breakers Hotel in Palm
Beach being interviewed by author Edward Jay
Epstein. Epstein was writing a book on the JFK Assassination.
Just hours after landing, O'Reilly and I, along with our
cameraman, arrived at The Breakers. We paid a bell hop $25 to get the
number of Epstein's suite. With camera rolling, I knocked on the
door. Epstein came to the door and went ballistic! You could see
deMohrenschildt, in the background, sitting at a dining room table. Eptstein
called hotel security. Within moments, we were all bodily removed from the
premises. Just the beginning of our caper!
The next day, Gaeton Fonzi shows up in nearby Manalapan ,
Florida carrying a subpoena for
deMohrenschildt to appear before the House Committee on Assassinations. The
Committee wanted to grill deMohrenschildt on his and Oswald's clandestine
meeting with a CIA operative in Mexico
City , about a month before the assassination. But
deMohrenschildt never appeared before the committee.
Shortly after receiving his subpoena, deMohrenschildt
retreated to a bedroom inside a mansion owned by a Mafia connected family from Arizona .
He was found dead from a massive shotgun wound to his head. The coroner, to my
recollection, couldn't say for sure that deMohrenschildt took his own life
because of the length of the shotgun barrel placed in deMohrenschildt's
mouth. Some story...to say the least!
Before leaving Florida ,
O'Reilly and I made one more stop. We drove to North
Miami Beach , the Hallandale
area. About 10pm , we paid a
visit to former convicted Watergate figure, E. Howard Hunt. He too was the
focus of the House Committee's investigation into the JFK Assassination.
When we rang Hunt's doorbell, he opened a small
peephole. In total darkness, I remember Hunt's eerie voice saying: "I
strongly suggest that you gentlemen leave RIGHT NOW !"
We did and flew back to Dallas
continuing to pursue the alleged cover-up to the assassination.
Bill O'Reilly's contact; the late Gaeton Fonzi, made our
award winning story.
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