FobTies said:
That's nuts. But imagine if gov military officials or local police came in to make decisions on how the pathologists were to execute Floyd's autopsy?!
That seems to be what happened with JFK's.
Well, that actually did happen in Dallas, only it was the Secret Service. At the time, there was no federal statute that applied to the assassination of a President, meaning the murder was a Texas state law matter only. To prove such a homicide, the autopsy had to be performed by the ME there. And he was at Parkland, trying to get access to do just that. But SS would not allow him access to JFK's body. There was quite a confrontation happening. (Even Caro wrote about that.) No one knew about the Zapruder film that day.
So when JFK's body was removed from Texas, without a Texas autopsy, under the law at the time, serious doubt Texas state capital murder charges could even be brought against Oswald. That's still subject to some debate but I'm not so sure the state could prove homicide under state laws, back then.
Amazing to think about that now but it was true.