Famed forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht will speak at Neshannock High School at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1.
The Allegheny County coroner was one of the earliest and most persistent critics of the official findings in the assassination of President Kennedy 42 years ago.
Donations will be taken at the door, and all money received will benefit the Caring Team. That group is made up of students who raise funds for western Pennsylvania students who don’t have health-care insurance.
Wecht will show and comment on presentations by some of the case’s top independent researchers and government investigators. Those presentations are contained in a boxed set of eight DVDs, “Into Evidence: Truth, Lies and Unresolved Mysteries in the Murder of JFK.”
Wecht emerged as one of the earliest critics of the Warren Report in 1965, when he led a review of the investigation for the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
From 1977 to 1979, he served as a member of the Forensic Pathology Panel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. He also consulted with the director Oliver Stone on the making of the 1991 film, “JFK” and has lectured widely and made numerous media appearances on the subject.
For more information about Wecht’s appearance, contact Nick Perry, principal at Neshannock Junior High School at (724) 656-9562.
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