The Life and Deaths of Cyril Wecht: Memoirs of America’s Most Controversial Forensic Pathologist, Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., pub. Sept2020
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Cyril Harrison Wecht (March 20, 1931 – May 13, 2024) was an American forensic pathologist. He was president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine and headed the board of trustees of the American Board of Legal Medicine. Wecht served as County Commissioner and Allegheny County Coroner and Medical Examiner, serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. He was perhaps best known for his criticism of the Warren Commission's findings concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, Dr. Wept. |
| 0:09.0 | Yeah, I'm sorry about the confusion, but my last email says here from you that confirmed for audio only. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, sure, that's no problem. |
| 0:19.0 | The problem was when I call your office, I can't do it through my computer, which I |
| 0:24.9 | use to record. |
| 0:26.3 | So it just won't take unknown calls. |
| 0:30.2 | But I think I have a workaround. |
| 0:31.5 | Are you ready to get started? |
| 0:32.5 | Okay. |
| 0:33.2 | Yeah, yeah, go ahead. |
| 0:34.2 | What is it? |
| 0:34.7 | You want to ask me about it? Well, just about your book, The Life and Deaths of Cyril Wecht, |
| 0:56.1 | Memoirs of America's Most Controversial Forensic Pathologists. I've read through the book in its entirety. |
| 1:01.6 | It's an excellent book. There's a lot of information about a very esteemed life of Dr. Wecht. |
| 1:08.5 | So, Dr. Wecht, are you there? |
| 1:12.6 | Hi. Hi. Wech. So Mr. Wecht, are Dr. Wecht, are you there? Hi. Nice talking to you and thank you for inviting me to participate in this. |
| 1:18.8 | Awesome. Well, I really agree. I'm grateful for you agreeing to the interview. You've written 45 |
| 1:24.2 | professional books for doctors and lawyers. You also have other well-known titles, |
| 1:29.5 | such as final exams, true crime cases from Cyril Wecht, and Tales from the Morg. But for people |
| 1:36.4 | who are curious about your background, what led you to write this memoir about your life, Dr. Wech? |
| 1:42.7 | Well, actually, I was being interviewed by Jeff Seawalt, who is my co-author on this |
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