30 years before 'Killing Kennedy' book, Bill O'Reilly explored bizarre umbrella assassin conspiracy

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has been widely praised for his wildly popular book "Killing Kennedy", which expertly dissects the historical events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and its aftermath. Released last year, O'Reilly's non-fiction book sold more than 100,000 copies in its first week on store bookshelves and was even made into a successful TV movie earlier this year, starring actor Rob Lowe.

But before he became something of an expert on JFK and climbed the ratings charts of cable news, O'Reilly was a local news reporter for WFSB in Hartford, Conn. Newly resurfaced video shows part of a four-part investigative series into the Kennedy assassination and Bill O'Reilly with significantly more hair. One of those segments explored a conspiracy theory about a man who helped kill JFK using a dart-laden umbrella gun...

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