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Cyril H. Wecht, MD, JD
Pittsburgh, Pa

JAMA. 1993;269(12):1507.

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To the Editor.

—It was with much restraint that I refrained from submitting a letter to the editor refuting the statements of the retired navy pathologists, Drs Humes and Boswell, in the blatantly biased interview articles in JAMA.^1,2

However, the more recent publication of the Finck interview³ mandates that I respond.

Dennis Breo states "the nine members of the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassination's blue-ribbon forensic pathology panel" concluded there were two shots fired from the rear. Inasmuch as I was a member of that panel and testified before the House Committee, I can state with personal knowledge that this is incorrect. Such a conclusion would automatically endorse the "single bullet" theory, the greatest forensic scientific hoax ever conceived. I have been strenuously arguing against the "magic bullet" theory for 25 years, and I testified unequivocally that I did not concur with my colleagues.

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