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Court TV online chat with Dr. Wecht

Here's an interesting read: A transcript of Dr. Wecht's chat session with Court TV in November 2003 prior to his conference, Solving the Great American Murder Mystery: A National Symposium on the 40th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination.

October 05, 2004 | Permalink

Warren Commission botched investigation

Historians and researchers marked the 40th anniversary of the Warren Commission report by deriding the government's official investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The group said the report was so badly botched that most Americans have little confidence in its central conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.

Dr.Wecht says one of the greatest failures of the Warren Commission was in not challenging a poorly performed autopsy of the president. He has said the autopsy was replete with deficiencies, ineptitude and incompetence, and that the attending physicians who conducted the autopsy were not even experienced in gunshot trauma. Dr. Wecht served on a House committee's investigation into the assassination in 1978.

For more, see "History buffs, scholars deride JFK inquiry".

40 Years

There is no mystery like the assassination of JFK. Was it a single bullet that killed Kennedy or were there multiple individuals involved? Tomorrow, November 22, 2003, marks the 40-year anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, yet even Dr. Wecht concedes the mystery still remains unsolved with no definitive proof on either side, at least until those who conspired step forward with the truth. Today, Dr. Wecht kicks off a national symposium,
Solving the Great American Murder Mystery, at the Wecht Institute at Duquesne University.

JFK imageDr. Wecht was the first independent forensics expert to examine JFK's autopsy records and his long-held, well-known belief is that there was more than one assassin. As Pittsburgh's KDKA reported this week, Dr. Wecht believes the assassination was nothing less than the overthrow of the government; a "coup d'鴡t in America." He's not alone.

In 1998, a CBS News poll found that only 10 percent of respondents felt Oswald acted alone, while 74 percent believed there was a cover-up. Without question, JFK's assassination remains at least an unsettling mystery to many Americans.

Not surprisingly, the media has been all over the subject this week. Here are some articles and resources we've come across:

40 years on, Arlen Specter and Cyril Wecht still don't agree how JFK died - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Transcript: Forensic Files: The Assassination of JFK - Washington Post

'Single-Shot Theory' Still Scrutinized - Newsday

November 21, 2003 | Permalink

Court TV examing new evidence in JFK case

Court TV's series Forensic Files will air a special on November 19 (9:00 PM ET) which will examine alleged audio evidence of a second shooter in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The program will air on the eve of The Wecht Institute's 2003 Conference on the JFK Assassination at Duquesne University, November 21. Dr. Wecht will appear as special guest on the show.

For more, see Court TV's The JFK Assassination: Investigation Reopened, Examines Alleged Audio Evidence of Second Shooter

November 07, 2003 | Permalink

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