Bill O’Reilly, Circa 1975

By Brian 

The Smoking Gun:



“The year was 1975 and Bill O’Reilly was a broadcast TV rookie itching to move to a larger market from Scranton, Pennsylvania. O’Reilly, then 26, worked as the ‘Action Consumer’ troubleshooter for WNEP, the ABC affiliate, and was seeking to decamp to Atlanta or Miami. He apparently had outgrown the Action 16 news team, which operated from offices at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton airport.” More…

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