Obituary: Gary Webb, Prize-Winning Investigative Reporter (Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wounds)

The Sacramento Bee ^ | 12/12/04 | Sam Stanton and Sandy Louey

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Gary Webb, a prize-winning investigative journalist whose star-crossed career was capped with a controversial newspaper series linking the CIA to the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, died Friday of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, officials said.

Mr. Webb, 49, was found dead in his Carmichael home Friday morning of gunshot wounds to the head, the Sacramento County Coroner's Office said Saturday. He left a note, but officials would not disclose its contents.

[Rebel_Ace]

"...He left a note, but officials would not disclose its contents..."

The CIA made me do it.

[FreePaul]

...a controversial newspaper series linking the CIA to the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles,...

I rember the articles but I thought that the theories they advanced were determined to be false. Anyone remember more about his writing?

[7.62 x 51mm]

Payback?

[BigSkyFreeper]

Never heard of the guy. Not sure if I want to say "rest in peace" or not. Suicide, IMO, is never the answer to life's problems.

[SmithL]

Wait for it,

here come the tin-foil hat folks.

[socal_parrot]

From the article...



Three of the nation's leading newspapers, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, followed up with reports questioning Mr. Webb's conclusions, and eventually his own newspaper turned on him

[Lancey Howard]

....of gunshot wounds to the head

Plural?

[martin_fierro]

Webb's "writing" as it appeared in the San Jose Murky Nuz

[sevry]

died Friday of self-inflicted gunshot wounds

He didn't "died" today. The sucker SHOT HIMSELF. He committed suicide, for gosh sakes! Why can't reporters report what people do using the clearest language possible?

[TNdandelion]

Gunshot wounds? How many times did he shoot himself in the head before he killed himself?

[tet68]

WoundS?
Sounds messy.
I remember reading an account by a NYC detective
about an ex boxer who shot himself SEVEN times in the head,
using a REVOLVER!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Plural?

Y'know, you're gonna think I'm an idiot... but: I swear that aspect didn't even register with me until you mentioned it, just now.

Nero Wolfe, apparently, I ain't. :)

[DoughtyOne]

LOL, and 'gunshots to the head' sounds like a normal suicide to you right? Do you put that brain of yours on cruise control?

[killjoy]

WHAT DID BUSH KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

[No Longer Free State]

He left a note, but officials would not disclose its contents.

"This is what comes of those of us who intentionally mislead the public. Can someone please deliver my gun to Dan Rather?"

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Mena Arkansas druglord ping!

[squidward]

"I remember reading an account by a NYC detective
about an ex boxer who shot himself SEVEN times in the head,
using a REVOLVER!"

A great example of being highly motivated.

[connectthedots]

Likely poor writing, but a single gunshot could cause more than one wound.

[KneelBeforeZod]

I worked with a guy who shot himself in the head and lived. he put the gun under his chin and it went up the front of his face and came out the eye socket, smashing that eye ball.

he is just fine now...except for missing one eye. well mentally he probably isn't just fine