Pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, center, talks to the media while Bahamas' head coroner Linda Virgil, right, and attorney Michael Scott, left, listen outside the Rand Laboratory morgue at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, Sept. 17, 2006. 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 Mon…
May 13, 2024
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Dr. Cyril Wecht, celebrity pathologist who argued more than 1 shooter killed JFK, dies at 93
Wecht's lecture circuit demonstration detailing his theory that it was impossible for one bullet to cause the damage it did on that November day in Dallas made its way into Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" after the director consulted with him. It became the famous courtroom scene showing the path of the “magic bullet.”