{"id":34330,"date":"2024-05-13T10:59:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=34330"},"modified":"2024-05-13T18:33:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T22:33:44","slug":"cyril-wecht-renowned-pathologist-and-former-allegheny-county-democratic-throughout-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2024\/05\/13\/cyril-wecht-renowned-pathologist-and-former-allegheny-county-democratic-throughout-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyril Wecht, renowned pathologist and former Allegheny County Democratic Leader throughout the years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Allegheny County coroner Cyril Wecht (seated) at a news conference downtown at his office, about his autopsy on Anthony Proviano, giving no final answer as to murder or suicide about his death. (Bill Wade\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pathologist Cyril Wecht, left, talks to the media while Bahamas’ head coroner Linda Virgil listens, outside the Rand Laboratory morgue at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006. Wecht, the private examiner hired by the family, said a second autopsy on the body of Daniel Wayne Smith, the 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith, did not produce conclusive evidence of what killed him. He has requested Smith’s medical records from the United States and ordered further analyses that could take weeks to be completed. (AP Photo\/Tim Aylen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril Wecht, coroner, Allegheny County, Penn., tells a Washington news conference that the Rockefeller CIA Commission report on his findings in the John F. Kennedy assassination case has been distorted, June 12, 1975. He said the report makes it appear that he concurs with the report of the Warren Commission. (AP Photo\/Charles Bennett)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril Wecht of Pittsburgh, a witness during the hearings to exhume the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, who testified that in his opinion the body should be exhumed, talks to media in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., Oct. 21, 1969. It was the second day of hearings at the Luzerne County courthouse. (AP Photo\/Paul Vathis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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TAINAN, TAIWAN: Michael Haag (R), a US crime scene investigator, talks with Dr. Cyril H. Wecht while gathering evidence from the site in Tainan, 29 March 2004, where an assassination attempt was made on President Chen Shui-bian 19 March. Three US crime scene investigators arrived in Taiwan on 29 March to help authorities probe the election-eve shooting of President Chen, claimed by the opposition to have swung the vote, police said. (Sam Yeh\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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TAINAN, TAIWAN: Dr. Cyril H. Wecht (C), a US crime scene investigator, checks the site in Tainan, on 29 March 2004, where an assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian took place on 19 March. Three US crime scene investigators arrived in Taiwan on 29 March to help authorities probe the election-eve shooting of President Chen, claimed by the opposition to have swung the vote, police said. (Sam Yeh\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht speaks to the media about the murder case in East Liberty and the case of the two brothers shot by police in Idaho. (Tony Tye\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cyril Wecht, Coroner candidate, Allegheny County<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Allegheny Co. Coroner Cyril Wecht (right) and his son David Wecht work the crowd during the final hours of the Allegheny County Democratic Party Endorsement Meeting at the Sheraton at Station Square Sunday afernoon. David Wecht is running for the Register of Wills. (Martha Rial\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cyril Wecht, the coroner, leaves the courtroom after giving testimony at the Gammage trial. (Joyce Mendelsohn\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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(C) Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht is flanked by (L) Commander Ron Freeman of the City of Pittsburgh Police, and (R) Peter Micheli, Acting Fire Chief, City of Pittsburgh, as he announces his findings in the death of the city firefighter Paul McGrath, who died while fighting a fire later found to have been arson. A suspect has been arrested and will be charged with homicide. (Tony Tye\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht discusses the death of the Rev. Walter J. Benz on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1998. Mysterious circumstances surround the death of the Catholic priest accused of embezzling $1.3 million and living with his secretary. (Steve Mellon\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr Cyril Wecht waves to the crowd lining Fifth Avenue while he marches in the annual Columbus Day Parade with his son David Wecht and Nathan Wecht, his David’s11-month-old son. David Wecht is the Register of Wills for Allegheny County. (Martha Rial\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Democratic party candidate for the new office of county executive for Allegheny County, Cyril Wecht, left, greets Ron Wilson while doing some last-minute campaigning during the lunch hour in Pittsburgh’s strip district on Monday. Nov. 1, 1999. (AP Photo\/Keith Srakocic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril Wecht with his wife Sigrid Wecht acknowledges the applause from his supporters in the ballroom of the William Penn Ballroom after conceding the county executive race to Jim Roddey. (Martha Rial\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril Wecht, coroner of Allegheny County, Pa., discusses what he sees in Ted Binion’s eye during questioned by defense attorney John Momot, Wednesday morning, May 3, 2000, in Las Vegas. The nationally known forensic pathologist suggested that gambling figure Ted Binion committed suicide, and was not slain as authorities contend. Binion’s live-in girlfriend, Sandra Murphy, and her lover, Missoula, Mont., contractor Rick Tabish, are charged with murdering Binion and stealing his valuables. (AP Photo\/Las Vegas Revuew-Journal, Jeff Scheid)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cyril Wecht on May 1988 Nova TV Program a taping for a JFK assassination film. (Photo Provided)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril Wecht smiles as he talks to cameras and media as he arrives back at the Federal Courthouse, in Pittsburgh after the lunch recess. (Darrell Sapp\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In this June 19, 2009 photo, Dr. Cyril Wecht talks about growing up and his education as a youth in Pittsburgh from his law offices in Pittsburgh. Wecht, one of the most sought-after pathologists, has played a part in many famous cases and is a man whose personality helped turn a grim profession into a popular career choice and helped birth a generation of fictional medical examiners on crime shows from “CSI” to “NCIS.” (AP Photo\/Keith Srakocic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In this July 16, 2009 photo, Dr.Cyril Wecht makes a phone call while sitting on a curb outside the facility he uses to perform autopsies in Pittsburgh. Wecht, one of the most sought-after pathologists, has played a part in many famous cases and is a man whose personality helped turn a grim profession into a popular career choice and helped birth a generation of fictional medical examiners on crime shows from “CSI” to “NCIS.” (AP Photo\/Keith Srakocic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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His criminal charges dismissed, former Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, with attorney Jerry McDevitt by his side, can laugh during a news conference. (Michael Henninger \/ Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril and Sigrid Wecht attend Jim Roddey’s 80th birthday celebration to benefit River City Brass at the Fairmont Hotel. (Bill Wade\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Former Allegheny County Coroner and forensic science consultant Cyril Wecht uses a skull to discuss the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from a forensic point of view at “Passing the Torch”, an International Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy at Duquesne University on Thursday, October 17, 2013. (Lake Fong\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jim O’Toole.
Former Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht arrives at the funeral of former Mayor Sophie Masloff at Temple Sinai in Squirrel Hill on Tuesday, August 19, 2014. (Lake Fong\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril Wecht in the hallway of the Allegheny County Courthouse. Dr. Wecht testified this morning this morning that he believes that Autumn Klien’s cause of death cannot be determined. (Post-Gazette\/Nate Guidry)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Supreme Court candidate David Wecht (left celebrates with his father, Dr. Cyril Wecht (right) as better-than-expected election returns come in. (Bob Donaldson\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril Wecht, former Allegheny County Coroner, Tim Stevens, Chairman of the Black Political Empowerment Project, and former Steeler Franco Harris pose for photographs with attendees during a community forum about election fairness and gerrymandering at the East Liberty Presbyterian Church on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. (Michael Henninger\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril Wecht speaks at the Pioneers of Forensics Science Conference honoring Dr. Henry Lee, one of the world’s foremost criminalists, at Duquesne University on Thursday, June 1, 2017, in Uptown. (Haley Nelson\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril Wecht, currently active as a medical-legal and forensic consultant, author, lecturer, and Allegheny County Coronor, speaks about the opioid crisis at Community Conversation: The Opioid Crisis, presented by NASW & Cognitive Behavior Institute, on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, at Rodef Shalom in Oakland. (Haley Nelson\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril Wecht, Forensic Pathologist, and Medical Legal Consultant, left, testifies before a joint House and Senate Democratic Policy Committee on improving Community-Police relations while on a panel with Chad Dion Lassiter, Executive Director of PA Human Relations at Hosanna House on Tuesday, July 17, 2018, in Wilkinsburg. Senator Jay Costa, Senator Vincent Hughes, Representative Mike Sturla, and Representative Edward Gainey joined Senator Lisa Boscola co-chaired the event where they discussed legislative solutions while examining the relationship between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve. (Michael M. Santiago\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Forensic pathologist, Cyril Wecht discusses the Venango County District Attorney\u2019s decision not to charge the shooter in the death of Peter Spencer, during a press conference Downtown on Monday, March 28, 2022. Spencer was shot multiple times in December at a Venango County cabin. \u201cThe story puzzles the hell out of me,\u201d Wecht said at one point. (Steve Mellon\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Cyril Wecht, a forensic pathologist, at his office Thursday, September 7, 2017, in Uptown, Pittsburgh. (Rebecca Droke\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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From left: Paul Landis, Cyril Wecht, and Ken Gormley. Former Secret Service Agent Paul Landis, Duquesne University President Ken Gormley, and renowned forensic scientist Dr. Cyril Wecht will explore recent revelations about John F. Kennedy\u2019s assassination as part of The JFK Assassination at 60: New Frontiers in Scientific, Medical, Legal and Historical Research. Landis, 88, witnessed the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and revealed new details about the case in his book, The Final Witness. (Courtesy of Duquesne University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":34338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,4,15,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[55],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/5KF0KKGE.jpg?fit=1584%2C989&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34799,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34330\/revisions\/34799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34330"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=34330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}