Newsmax- O'Reilly w/ new book: Killing Jesus

6. O’Reilly in Footsteps of Famed Author With Jesus Book
With news this week that Bill O’Reilly is set to offer a new book about the death of Jesus, it appears the top-rated Fox News host is following in the footsteps of another famous author whose books on the deaths of Lincoln, Kennedy and Jesus became instant best-sellers in their day.
The late Jim Bishop, a veteran newspaperman who once reported for the New York Daily News and later was a syndicated columnist, saw his book “The Day Lincoln Was Shot” become a runaway best-seller in 1955.
A series of similar-themed books followed, with Bishop penning “The Day Christ Died” in 1957 and then in 1968 “The Day Kennedy Was Shot” — a minute-by-minute account of JFK’s 1963 shooting in Dallas.
Perhaps his most critically acclaimed book, “FDR’S Last Year,” came out in 1984.
The parallels with O’Reilly are uncanny.
In 2011 O’Reilly penned a book about Lincoln, “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever.” The book, co-authored with Martin Dugard, became a New York Times best-seller with more than 5 million copies sold.
Last October, O’Reilly and Dugard followed up with “Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot,” which debunks many of the conspiracy myths holding that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the assassination of the president.
It too became an instant best-seller, and in fact remains No. 1 on Amazon.com in several categories.
Now O’Reilly has announced that, like Bishop, he will write a book about Jesus Christ. Titled “Killing Jesus,” it will recount the life and times of Jesus and the Christian legacy he left behind.
“We’ve uncovered some interesting things about the execution of Jesus of Nazareth and how it all ties into Roman power,” O’Reilly told viewers of “The O’Reilly Factor” on Feb. 20.
So given the parallels between O’Reilly and Bishop, the obvious question that comes to mind is: Will O’Reilly follow his Jesus chronicle with a book about Franklin Delano Roosevelt?