when I first learned about Dr. Cyril Wechts legal difficulties I suspected government retaliation

And where there's smoke there's fire.

This isn't exactly news but what I found out was that Wecht was caught up in another Karl Rove payback attempt. Now don't that sort of figure?

Surely I need to research the matter more but just the idea that the out of control U.S. Attorney's Office under the Bush administration would target this brave soul and dedicated life long Democrat should set off some bells and red tags.

Sure enough Wecht has said this himself.

I was happy to hear that his legal troubles are over. Unfortunately according to Wecht his life savings are gone.


We know Cyril Wecht for many matters. Mostly high profile forensic evidence: Elvis, Bennet Ramsey deaths etc. However he is most noted as the only major pathologist willing to go out on a limb and dispute the single bullet theory. Somehow he didn't end up dead or destroyed professionally. In fact he was elected to various political offices with the support of his County Democratic Party.

None of Wecht's colleagues dared to reveal the truth about the single bullet scam:


Wecht and he alone dared say what no one else would say: That the Warren Commission was full of shit.

These statements from wiki:

REPRESENTATIVE JOHN CONYERS - "I am deeply troubled by reports of FBI agents contacting former jurors who failed to convict Dr. Wecht. Whether reckless or intended, it is simply common sense that such contacts can have a chilling effect on future juries in this and other cases. When added to the troubling conduct of this prosecution, there is the appearance of a win-at-all-costs mentality." <20>

REPRESENTATIVE MIKE DOYLE "I am very reluctant to intervene in a judicial proceeding - and like most people have watched quietly as the government's case against Cyril Wecht was made - but after seeing news reports from jurors, I have serious concerns about the appropriateness of a retrial. Specifically, I have concerns about the government's decision to seek a retrial before even interviewing the Wecht trial jurors. Had they done so, they would have learned, as reported by the jury foreman, that a majority of the jurors were voting not guilty on the charges and that many had come to the conclusion that the case was politically motivated. It also concerns me greatly that the FBI contacted jurors at their homes to request interviews about why they deadlocked. That would be intimidating to just about anyone. If what is being reported is true, it is my intention to contact the Attorney General's office to ask him to review this case to determine whether justice would be served and taxpayers' money well spent by seeking a retrial."

Eventually Wecht beat the charges. An American hero. Unfairly smeared and nearly harassed to death at age 88.

These enemies of his have a long memory and aren't troubled by killing anyone. Nor pressing false and trumped up charges on a spindly aging sweet man.

Here's to Dr. Wecht: You did the right thing when no one else dared join you.


THAT is leadership.

There is one fact that no one has ever been able to win an argument with me. There is more lead in John Connally's rotting dead body than is missing from that bullet.

Two shooters three shooters half a dozen shooters all supposition.... MORE LEAD... DEAD HEAVY FACT!!! :shrug:

BTW I also like Cyril's name. It's cute.

That's really a fired round, isn't it? Not.

The Warren Commission has never been believable.

Wecht in "Destroying the single bullet theory"

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQLQEYWNOiE

It was beyond their imagination that our forensics would evolve with technology and we would be able to test every aspect of the cover story and find it ludicrously deficient.

See also <http://www.blackopradio.com/black426a.ram>

Hate to say it blackopradio.com but has been more useful to me recently than D/U.

As for Wecht: He's been put in the same position as Governor Don Siegelman from Alabama. A goon squad of Karl Rove political hacks. Inventing charges and putting him through the meat grinder.

Wecht's public statements about the single bullet show more guts than any of his colleagues. Plus the timbre of his voice, and ease at public speaking is very convincing. His talks about CE 399 pretty much single handedly brought the Warren Commission down.

One can see why he became the most sought out forensic pathologist in all the high profile cases.

He was fascinating. And boy did he ever get screwed.

REPRESENTATIVE JOHN CONYERS - "I am deeply troubled by reports of FBI agents contacting former jurors who failed to convict Dr. Wecht. Whether reckless or intended, it is simply common sense that such contacts can have a chilling effect on future juries in this and other cases. When added to the troubling conduct of this prosecution, there is the appearance of a win-at-all-costs mentality." <20>


Goon squads. Using false and trumped charges but they didn't know who they were up against. Wecht's case was finally dismissed. Only after costing the poor old guy his life's savings.

The message sent was clear: Go along with the cover story or be destroyed.

Look at how brave Wecht was in 1978. Conversely view the pussies who caved in around him:

In 1978 he testified before he House Select Committee on Assassinations as part of a nine member forensic pathology panel. In many of its conclusions, the forensic pathology panel voted 8 to 1, with the dissenting vote being consistently that of Cyril H. Wecht.<3> Wecht requested to testify in person before the committee.

Mr. PURDY. Dr. Wecht, what are the major conclusions of the forensic pathology panel with which you are in disagreement?

Dr. WECHT. The major disagreement is the single-bullet theory which I deem to be the very essence of the Warren Commission report's conclusions and all the other corroborating panels and groups since that time. It is the sine qua non of the Warren Commission report's conclusions vis-a-vis a sole assassin. Without the single-bullet theory, there cannot be one assassin, whether it is Oswald or anybody else. I am in disagreement with various other conclusions of the panel.

Pigs in the trough of advancing their careers. Typical for the GOP swine. Wecht however is a life long Democrat.

A true American hero. Always doing the right thing.