Killing Bill O'Reilly

by Tom Christian, Ray Clark

In 2019 author Tom Christian and author/historian Ray Clark joined forces to write about one of the most tragic events in broadcast journalism history. The result was “Killing Bill O’Reilly,” a historic look at the 2014 assassination of the legend affectionately known as “Papa Bear.” 2014 had been shaping up to be another banner year for Bill O’Reilly. He had a string of books in Amazon’s top ten, “The O’Reilly Factor” was still the number one show on cable, and he was amid his most successful live tour yet – The Boldest and Freshest Tour. On 9 August all that had come to a shocking end. While on stage at the historic Michigan Theatre in Jackson, Michigan, Bill O’Reilly had been mortally wounded by a single shot that rang out from the shadows. Christian and Clark have scoured the history books, the newspaper headlines, and the Internet machine; they have sifted through thousands of pages of interviews, journals, and court records, and they have interviewed dozens of O’Reilly’s friends and coworkers in order to bring you the facts as they know them. Buy Killing Bill O’Reilly today. Start a conversation with your friends, family, and coworkers about the conspiracy theories surrounding the tragic assassination of culture’s greatest warrior

255 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 28, 2013

Reviews

[Jess | dapper.reads · Rating 1 out of 5]

Why did I do this to myself? 🤦‍♀️
This book is not great. Even a little.
The idea behind the book (a historical fiction written as true crime) was so exciting to me. Then I saw the reviews. I gotta say, they hit the nail on the head.

Let me summarize this book for you:
Bill O’Reilly was murdered. Rewind- look at how great of a guy he was. All the way back in high school he was awesome. Everyone loves him even when he’s a jerk.

The end.

Totally not worth the day I wasted forcing myself to read this.

[Donald J. Bailey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pure garbage. Authors tried to play off the popularity of O'Reilly's 'Killing' series of books to sell their fictional tale. Appears realistic until you realize the book's 2013 copyright date preceeds the date of their alleged killing of O'Reilly in 2014 and further, the 5 years later date (2019) of comments in the Epilog. Notwithstanding the fact that O'Reilly is still alive and podcasting as we speak.

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read

This book seemed enthralling with fiction mixes with true life characters. It definitely was a page turner although it seemed like the writer sold himself short by ending the story that way.

[Arthur Gardner · Rating 2 out of 5]

So, Bill O’Reilly is dead?

Slow, tedious, boring. Gosh, I would like to find something interesting to say, but having to write a review just to move on to another book is so frustrating that I resent this entire exercise.

[Doncourtright · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Death of a good man

Too bad we can't find the truth in this case
. Another murder goes unsolved. This book is well worth reading.

[BETH · Rating 1 out of 5]

POOOOP...

What a bunch of pooh! Could've wasted my time on something much more meaningless, like Candy Crush Saga or GTA...