America’s most controversial pathologist dissects JFK’s assassination in explosive new book — Analysis

Dr. Cyril Wecht is not any nonsense, blunt and doesn’t shirk voicing an opinion. Once I spoke to him about his new e book, ‘The JFK Assassination Dissected,’ I used to be forewarned that, regardless of being a nonagerian, he’s nonetheless a formidable presence.

The veteran forensic pathologist turns 91 subsequent month, but continues to work solidly out of his Pittsburgh workplace. He’s carried out 21,000 autopsies and been consulted on greater than 41,000 different deaths. He additionally continues to show on the metropolis’s Duquesne College, however sees his deep dive into the homicide of America’s most iconic president as his legacy mission.

“It’s type of a present to myself to get it on the market, earlier than I can be unable to learn it mendacity in my coffin,” he says matter of factly.

With a mission assertion like that it’s hardly shocking the e book, which took six years to put in writing, shouldn’t be a affirmation of the official account of what occurred in Dallas again on that fateful day in 1963.

His competition is {that a} small group, maybe of round six army and CIA powerbrokers, had been behind the assassination: “They’re individuals who noticed America going to hell in a basket they usually had been taking a look at 5 extra years of John Kennedy seemingly adopted by eight years of Robert Kennedy. 13 years is a lifetime within the socio-political improvement of a rustic. There was no approach they may defeat the Kennedys on the polls, no approach they may have handled him in any approach – there was just one method to take care of it and save America as they noticed it, of their tremendous patriotic zeal, and that was to get rid of him.”

The official document of what happened on that fateful day is that Lee Harvey Oswald, working as a lone murderer, shot JFK because the president rode by adoring crowds in an open prime automotive. Two days later, Oswald, a former US Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union, was shot useless himself in police custody by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub proprietor. 

The 888-page remaining report from the 10-month lengthy Warren Fee in September 1964 judged that Oswald acted alone and there was no conspiracy, overseas or home.

Wecht doesn’t mince his phrases: “The Warren Fee report is pure bullshit.”

The smoking gun in Wecht’s e book is that he claims to show comprehensively that there was a second shooter.

“I get into a few of the very particular technical findings explaining why there have been two shooters, one from the rear and one from the entrance, simultaneous photographs not only one from the rear,” he says. 

A part of his proof is offered by an acoustical examine, due to a police bike officer who made an unwitting mistake: “He was using off the left rear tyre of the Presidential limousine and was splattered with blood, mind and tissue a lot, that he thought he had been shot. 

“He had his bike radio within the transmitting as an alternative of the receiving mode which he ought to have had, and it was lucky because the sounds at Dealey Plaza that day had been recorded as they had been transmitted from his radio. That acoustical examine was carried out by the highest notch acoustic specialists right here in the US they usually conclusively present there have been photographs from the rear and the entrance – there have been 4 photographs, if not 5 – fairly completely different from what the Warren Fee has portrayed.”

Whereas he’s sure of a second particular person firing, Wecht doesn’t have any potential suspects.

“If I had the names I’d disclose them. I haven’t been hesitant or frightened of something. By now if anyone was going to knock me off, it will have occurred.”

One other side that rankles with Wecht is geometry. JFK was accompanied that day by Texas governor John Connally, who was additionally shot however not killed.

In a single breathless diatribe, Wecht recounts with out pause the journey of Exhibit 399, the bullet that killed the thirty fifth US president, explaining the way it needed to change angle and path on a number of events because it went by way of each males.

Wecht explains: “I say to the Warren Fee defenders and sycophants, if you need Oswald as a shooter, effective. I would like the second shooter as a result of within the legal guidelines of the US federal authorities, two or extra folks concerned in a planning, execution, coverup of against the law makes it a conspiracy. The case must be reinvestigated.”

The e book takes no situation with JFK’s safety element or the medical workers who handled him.

Wecht believes strings had been pulled from above, creating the circumstances for a coverup that concerned Kennedy’s physique rapidly being taken again to Washington for an post-mortem.

“To start with, you will have the physique of the president spirited out of Parkland Hospital in Dallas in violation of the legal guidelines of that county and the state of Texas. The post-mortem ought to have been carried out by the native medical expert, who was a board licensed, skilled, certified forensics pathologist. I occur to know him, we met after we had been each within the Air Drive a few years in the past at completely different bases and [at] nationwide conferences.”

As an alternative it was a pair of naval medical doctors, J. Thornton Boswell and James Humes, who carried it out at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. In Wecht’s eyes, they had been out of their depth: “They had been profession naval individuals who had by no means carried out a single gunshot wound post-mortem of their complete careers. You notice how troublesome a job it’s to take care of anyone that has a number of gunshot wounds to distinguish between entrance and exit, angle, trajectory, sequence and within the JFK case you then need to correlate all of his wounds, with the a number of wounds in John Connally? That could be a formidable job.

“The concept of getting two pathologists who had by no means carried out a gunshot wound post-mortem of their complete careers, who had no coaching in forensic pathology, is deplorable and despicable.”

One other space of suspicion within the e book is what occurred to JFK’s mind. It couldn’t be examined straightaway. Wecht explains how a mind can’t be dissected instantly because it’s too fragile, so a chemical is used to harden it: “You return in two weeks and you’ll reduce it like a tough boiled egg, I don’t imply to be crude however simply consider that, slicing a tough boiled egg in parallel style, slice by slice. You do this with a mind.”

The issue is that two weeks later, JFK’s entire mind was not there. “It’s within the post-mortem report, [that] sections of the mind aren’t made with the intention to ‘protect the specimen’. Protect the specimen? For whom? For Jackie Kennedy’s mantelpiece?”

Wecht says a few of the details he references within the e book are on the market in plain sight for anybody to find by researching. In reality, a few of the materials is roofed in different books, too, however he believes his is probably the most complete demolition of the official account of Kennedy’s demise, stating: “My e book lays it out from the start to the top so to talk and covers all of the issues that had been carried out improperly, negligently, intentionally, surreptitiously, malevolently to indicate that this was a deliberate execution, for the overthrow of the federal government in the US.”

There can be many naysayers who will understandably really feel {that a} killing of this magnitude couldn’t have remained a secret for nearly 60 years. In spite of everything, there have been numerous motion pictures, documentaries, books and podcasts made from the assassination, so why ought to Wecht’s be the one which calls it proper in spite of everything this time?

The veteran physician welcomes the problem: “I’m ready to debate anyone, draw an viewers… however [let’s] take care of the details. [When] I’ve talked about partaking in conjecture of the names of the folks or what number of had been there and so forth, I level that out. However every thing else is difficult details and if anyone desires to dispute this, name me a conspiracist, then take care of the details.”

Additionally pertinent for Wecht is how all however one of many US media have ignored his e book, however he has acquired quite a few interview requests from abroad.

“Right here in America, no one has contacted me even to assault me, as they know in the event that they assault me, I’m going to rebut and problem them, so they only ignore it and it’ll go away, that’s the best way they’ve handled this for nearly 60 years.”

Wecht feels Individuals can’t countenance their commander in chief being shot useless in a conspiracy carried out by shadowy inside actors. He factors out how Russian or Chinese language nationwide safety operatives are sometimes portrayed as rogue in US media, however American ones are awarded an honorable and patriotic picture. “The e book is for anyone within the JFK assassination, anyone eager about an excellent homicide thriller, anyone eager about the best way issues are lined up and the methods during which governments can lie.”

Wecht additionally makes a lot of the truth that papers associated to the demise have nonetheless not been launched, regardless of The John F. Kennedy Assassination Data Assortment Act ordering all authorities paperwork to be publicly launched by October 2017. Donald Trump postponed that, releasing some, however most had been closely redacted.

Biden launched extra final December, however they had been dismissed as not containing any new info. Greater than 10,000 paperwork stay, which have but to be seen by anybody outdoors of The White Home. They’re resulting from be lastly unveiled on December 15, 2022, however that isn’t assured.

For Wecht, all of the secrecy is greater than sufficient purpose to justify his e book. “The rationale they provide after they deign to clarify why they don’t seem to be releasing all of it is that it will compromise our nationwide safety. An act dedicated in 1963, by one particular person based on them, goes to compromise our nationwide safety right now, in 2022 – you want that? That’s the type of BS you get from them.”