Dr. Cyril Wecht – Doctor, Lawyer and Legend, A Tribute
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, Joe is going to break with our regular format and take a look at a man who revolutionized the Medical legal death investigation field. He was famous as a “Celebrity Pathologist” but that doesn’t do the man justice. When others walk away from trouble, Dr. Cyril Wecht said, “Where is the brain of JFK?” Joseph Scott Morgan shares his thoughts on the passing of Dr. Cyril Wecht.
Transcript Highlights
00:00:18 Introduction from JFK movie
00:00:47 Talk about Dr. Cyril Wecht
00:04:06 Talk about passing of Werner Spitz
00:08:21 Discussion of JFK
00:11:37 Discussion of Dr. Wecht as Air Force Officer
00:14:45 Talk about Wecht running for political office
00:19:33 Discussion of Dr. Wecht from coroner’s office to medical examiner
00:24:16 Talk about Wecht didn’t play golf, life was his hobby
00:27:16 Discussion of Wecht getting sued for comments
00:31:36 Talk about Wecht discovers JFK brain is missing
00:35:02 Talk about destroying evidence to cover up a crime
00:38:34 Discussion of Dr. Cyril Wecht accomplishments
00:39:28 Discussion about over 42,000 Post-mortem exams
00:43:49 Joseph Scott Morgan share thoughts on Dr Wecht
I just want to take a moment and 1st off acknowledge his passing and certainly the wet family, the Duquesne family and all of his extended friends and colleagues. My deepest sympathies to them because he's a man. He is a man that Has impacted so many of us in the field of forensic science. He passed away peacefully on May 13th.
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| 0:00.0 | Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. Back and to the left. |
| 0:17.0 | Back and to the left. |
| 0:21.0 | Back and to the left. |
| 0:26.2 | Back and to the left. |
| 0:29.2 | Back and to the left. For many of us we have heard those words for years now. They first came into, I guess, our lexicon, when Oliver Stones movie, JFK, |
| 0:50.0 | J.F.K. premiered several decades ago now. JFK |
| 0:55.0 | several decades ago now. But you know, those words did not |
| 1:00.0 | come from the pen of Oliver Stone, though Kevin Kostner was uttering them as |
| 1:11.0 | Jim Garrison on film. That's not their point of origin either. |
| 1:19.6 | They originated from the |
| 1:24.3 | of one of the giants of forensic science. |
| 1:29.3 | Today we're going to talk about |
| 1:32.3 | the remarkable life of Sarawak. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags. |
| 1:50.0 | Dave back in, let's see, back in November, obviously, you and I taped one of our most well-received episodes of this podcast and it had to do with the |
| 2:10.4 | assassination of our former president, John Kennedy. |
| 2:18.0 | And that story had occupied a time and a place that, you know, for many of that generation |
| 2:25.8 | is now beginning to fade. |
| 2:28.4 | But there's something that had entered our lexicon as a result of the man that we're going to be discussing today |
| 2:36.4 | That will echo through time I submit to you and as a matter of fact it's not only has it been that phrases have been |
| 2:44.7 | dramaticized from the perspective of Oliver Stones movie but actually it |
| 2:51.9 | drifted over into Seinfeld but they did an entire episode |
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