'I believe there were two shooters': Dr. Cyril Wecht offers his perspective on Kennedy assassination
Wednesday marks a dark day in our nation's history. Sixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
One person watched with a different perspective, through the lens of forensic science.
Dr. Cyril Wecht, the former Allegheny County, Pennsylvania coroner, is 92 years old now and has spent most of his life analyzing the Kennedy assassination. The Warren Commission concluded Lee Harvey Oswald alone shot three bullets from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. The first shot missed, the second struck Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally, and the third bullet was fatal to Kennedy.
"My analysis is the Warren Commission is quite wrong," Wecht said. "I believe there were two shooters. I'm not at all certain that Lee Harvey Oswald was one of the two shooters."
It's that second bullet's trajectory and all the damage the commission said it did that made Wecht skeptical. He called it the magic bullet. He says the bullet's path doesn't make sense, calling it "ridiculous."
In addition, Wecht says the quick timing of the bullets being fired would not be physically possible. Wecht was the first civilian given permission to examine the physical evidence. He was the one who discovered Kennedy's brain was missing from the case file and had never been examined. Wecht says the brain would hold the answers of whether there was more than one gunman.
So, who does Wecht think killed JFK?
He said he doesn't think it was the mafia, the Russians or Vice President Lyndon Johnson. While he's not quite sure of who, he suspects it was a high-ranking CIA agent or one who recently retired.
Many other people who have examined the evidence feel the Warren Commission's report was accurate.