![Paul Vathis FILE - 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 reporters, Oct. 21, 1969, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/65d02ad90e3043c29161630ac12b0806/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - 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 reporters, Oct. 21, 1969, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)
![Keith Srakocic FILE - Dr. Cyril Wecht makes a phone call while sitting on a curb outside the facility he uses to perform autopsies, July 16, 2009, in Pittsburgh. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/bfac9131457b4140a2bef00a9f20d9d9/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - Dr. Cyril Wecht makes a phone call while sitting on a curb outside the facility he uses to perform autopsies, July 16, 2009, in Pittsburgh. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
![Keith Srakocic FILE - Pathologist and former Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht speaks during the swearing in ceremony for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice and his son, David N. Wecht, Jan. 7, 2016, at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/c288d1ba74794b4180dd02da03389ea2/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - Pathologist and former Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht speaks during the swearing in ceremony for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice and his son, David N. Wecht, Jan. 7, 2016, at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
![Tim Aylen FILE - Pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, center, talks to the media while Bahamas' head coroner Linda Virgil, right, and attorney Michael Scott, left, listen outside the Rand Laboratory morgue at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, Sept. 17, 2006. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/efe295f69cce49d9a35210439d50271e/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - Pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, center, talks to the media while Bahamas' head coroner Linda Virgil, right, and attorney Michael Scott, left, listen outside the Rand Laboratory morgue at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, Sept. 17, 2006. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen, File)
![Gary Tramontina FILE - Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht speaks, Aug. 23, 2002, in Pittsburgh. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Gary Tramontina, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/3ae12fdd110e4ea588fe513fcfcfc3e7/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht speaks, Aug. 23, 2002, in Pittsburgh. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Gary Tramontina, File)
![Tim Aylen FILE - Pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, center, talks to the media while Bahamas' head coroner Linda Virgil, right, and attorney Michael Scott, left, listen outside the Rand Laboratory morgue at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, Sept. 17, 2006. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/a24e84c4b9a44b34a5e156c191aac998/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - Pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, center, talks to the media while Bahamas' head coroner Linda Virgil, right, and attorney Michael Scott, left, listen outside the Rand Laboratory morgue at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, Sept. 17, 2006. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen, File)
![Charles Bennett FILE - Dr. Cyril Wecht, coroner for Allegheny County, Pa., tells reporters that the Rockefeller CIA Commission report on his findings in the John F. Kennedy assassination case have been distorted, June 12, 1975, in Washington. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/57fa825317634bd782696026b1b8b9fa/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - Dr. Cyril Wecht, coroner for Allegheny County, Pa., tells reporters that the Rockefeller CIA Commission report on his findings in the John F. Kennedy assassination case have been distorted, June 12, 1975, in Washington. Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the attention of prosecutors and TV viewers alike, died Monday, May 13, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett, File)