15-02-2015, 12:01 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Interestingly Cyril Wecht has just called for an new nautopsy on the body.
Quote:February 9, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
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RE: "Whodunit? In Obsessed Nation, Question Becomes Who Didn't
February 8, 2015
To the Editor:
This fascinating "Memo From Argentina" about the mysterious fatal shooting of Alberto Nisman refers to exhumations of prominent political figures whose deaths remained the subjects of continuing significant controversy in their respective countries President Salvador Allende and Nobel Prize-winning poet in Chili (1973); President Joao Goulart in Brazil (1964); Simon Bolivar in Venezuela (1830). Two other exhumations of prominent leaders should be referred to in this context President Zachary Taylor in the USA (1850), and PLO President Yasir Arafat in France (2004).
While all these deaths involved varying puzzling features, none of them entailed as much hard-core forensic scientific controversy as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; nor were the official governmental rulings as to who was responsible for those deaths rejected by such a large majority of their respective country's population as that which exists in the United States after more than half a century.
Would it not be beneficial to our nation to have the President's body exhumed so that modern day forensic scientific technology and fresh eyes could be utilized to determine with indisputable finality whether the Warren Commission was correct?
Sincerely,
Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D.
Forensic Pathologist
Past President, American Academy
of Forensic Sciences
Past President, American College
of Legal Medicine
Clinical Professor of Pathology,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Duquesne University
School of Law
Distinguished Professor of Pathology,
Carlow University
CHW/esy
Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D.
*Please note our new email address: [EMAIL="wechtpath@cyrilwecht.com"]wechtpath@cyrilwecht.com[/EMAIL]
Why do you suppose that Wecht missed the decisive evidence that classifies the remnant bullet hole in JFK's throat as an entry wound?
Source: Report of the Forensic Pathology Panel - 7HSCA, 93
(262) There is a semicircular missile defect near the center of the lower margin of the tracheotomy incision, approximately in the midline of the neck, with margins which are slightly denuded and reddish-brown.
This same panel twice cited denudation of margins to argue that entering bullets made the 15 mm by 6 mm scalp wound and the 7 mm by 10 mm transverse back wound.
Wecht also missed the replacement of the 7 mm by 4 mm longitudinal back wound reported by Humes with the 7 mm by 10 mm transverse back wound discussed by the medical panels.