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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Wecht
Cyril H. Wecht and Pathology Associates
Cyril, obviously, is a national figure, international figure, in many ways so we're lucky to have someone of his stature here in Allegheny County.
—Rich Fitzgerald
Rich Fitzgerald (born May 8, 1959) is an American elected official who serves as the 3rd County Executive of Allegheny County. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of Allegheny County Council from 2000 until 2011 as the District 11 representative.
Since 1962, Wecht has had a private practice. He has served as a medical-legal and forensic pathology consultant in both civil and criminal cases. Wecht is consulted by both plaintiffs' and defense attorneys in civil cases, and by both prosecutors and defense attorneys in criminal cases in jurisdictions throughout the United States and abroad.
His forensic consultant engagements include:
for the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office in regard to the
1968 Robert F. Kennedy assassination,
the 1969 Sharon Tate/LaBianca cases,
and the 1974 Symbionese Liberation Army Deaths;
for the Health Hospital, Panama Canal Zone as a member of the Special Expert Panel on American Legionnaires' Disease (Department of Health, Education and Welfare,
Centers for Disease Control)
for the ABC network television show 20/20 in regard to the John F. Kennedy assassination (1976)
and the death of Elvis Presley (1979)
-U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations, Forensic Pathology Panelfor the 1991 film JFK
the expert on the Jeffrey Locker case.[21]
JFK assassination
In 1965 Wecht presented a paper critiquing the Warren Commission to the meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.[22] In 1972 Wecht was the first civilian ever given permission to examine the Kennedy assassination evidence.[23] It was Wecht who first discovered that Kennedy's brain, and all related data in the killing, had gone missing.[24]
In 1978, he testified before the House Select Committee on Assassinations as the lone dissenter on a nine-member forensic pathology panel re-examining the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which had concurred with the Warren Commission conclusions and single bullet theory. Out of the four official examinations into the Kennedy Assassination, Wecht is the only forensic pathologist who has disagreed with the conclusion that both the single bullet theory and Kennedy's head wounds are mutually consistent.[25][26][27]
He was a consultant to Oliver Stone for the film JFK.[28][29]
Investigation into the death of Daniel Smith
Wecht was hired by Callenders and Co, a Bahamian law firm, to do an independent autopsy on the body of-Daniel Smith, the son of Anna Nicole Smith, who died while visiting his mother in the Bahamas.[30] Wecht attested that Daniel Smith died as a result of the interaction of methadone, sertraline (Zoloft) and escitalopram (Lexapro).[31]
In 2000, the Duquesne University School of Law established the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law.[32][33] The Institute offers graduate degree and professional certificate programs in forensic science to a diverse group of students spanning the disciplines of law, nursing, law enforcement, pharmacy, the health sciences, business, the environmental sciences and psychology.[citation needed]
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