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Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis

Bill O'Reilly: The NYPD - Then vs. Now

Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis

Bill O'Reilly

News Commentary, News, Politics

3.712K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:28.9

You know, my grandfather was an NYPD officer.

0:34.1

He joined a force when he came back from World War I. This is an amazing story.

0:39.3

His name was John O'Reilly.

0:41.3

And my people came over to the United States from Ireland, shortly after the Civil War ended.

0:50.3

And they were victims of the famine over there, and were evicted from their land and a destitute.

0:56.0

And two twin boys, 16 years old, went on a death ship. They call it a coffin ship because so many people died out of Galway and they landed in Brooklyn.

1:05.0

And their mother didn't go and their father was dead.

1:09.0

Mother State and Ireland.

1:15.7

And these boys started the O'Reilly side, and they never left Brooklyn.

1:17.1

They stayed in Brooklyn.

1:20.2

My father was born in Brooklyn, so it was my grandfather.

1:27.2

During the Depression, my grandfather had an income because he was with the NYPD. And he was a hero in World War I at the Battle

1:31.4

of Muse Argonne. The worst battle, casualty-wise, the Americans have ever fought. Now, it was fought

1:39.2

in northern France. So he came back and he joined the cops like many thousands of Irish did.

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