Dr. Cyril Wecht, a pathologist and attorney who grew obsessed over the assassination of John F. Kennedy, died Monday at age 93.
Followingin 1963, Wecht was commissioned to review the Warren Commission’s report, which concluded that Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was the sole bad actor in the assassination. Wecht then became obsessive over a theory that Oswald was not alone in the shooting.
Dr. Cyril Wecht, coroner for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, tells reporters that the Rockefeller CIA Commission report on his findings in the John F. Kennedy assassination case has been distorted, June 12, 1975, in Washington. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93.
After reviewing video footage and autopsy reports, Wecht concluded that the finding of a single bullet killing Kennedy and injuring former Texas Gov. John Connally in Dallas was “absolute nonsense.” Some disagreed with his theory. Former Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania called the theory “an asinine, pseudoscientific sham at best.”
His willingness to challenge official findings, however, made him something of a go-to pathologist for high-profile deaths. He also worked on cases such as Elvis Presley and JonBenet Ramsey. He also appeared on TV before the O.J. Simpson homicide trial in 1994, becoming a frequent guest on theHe was praised by some for his work; attorney Alan Dershowitz called him the “Sherlock Holmes of forensic sciences.
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