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Obituary: Gary Webb, Prize-Winning Investigative Reporter (Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wounds)
The Sacramento Bee ^
| 12/12/04
| Sam Stanton and Sandy Louey
Posted on 12/12/2004 9:49:05 AM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2004; 200412; crack; crackepidemic; darkalliance; garywebb; johnkerry; libmyths; maxinewaters; nicaragua; obituary; sjmn; suicide
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"...He left a note, but officials would not disclose its contents..."
The CIA made me do it.
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posted on
12/12/2004 9:50:29 AM PST
by
Rebel_Ace
(Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
...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?
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posted on
12/12/2004 9:51:32 AM PST
by
FreePaul
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
4
posted on
12/12/2004 9:52:57 AM PST
by
7.62 x 51mm
(• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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.
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posted on
12/12/2004 9:53:56 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Congratulations President-Re-Elect George W. Bush!)
To: Rebel_Ace
Wait for it,
here come the tin-foil hat folks.
6
posted on
12/12/2004 9:54:23 AM PST
by
SmithL
(People who are willing to accept everything, don't believe in anything.)
To: FreePaul
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
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
....of gunshot wounds to the headPlural?
To: FreePaul; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; NormsRevenge
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posted on
12/12/2004 9:55:41 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Holder of an M.A. degree in The Obvious)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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?
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posted on
12/12/2004 9:55:59 AM PST
by
sevry
Gunshot wounds? How many times did he shoot himself in the head before he killed himself?
To: 7.62 x 51mm
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!
12
posted on
12/12/2004 9:57:59 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Lancey Howard
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. :)
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posted on
12/12/2004 9:58:42 AM PST
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
(I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
To: SmithL
LOL, and 'gunshots to the head' sounds like a normal suicide to you right? Do you put that brain of yours on cruise control?
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posted on
12/12/2004 10:01:56 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
WHAT DID BUSH KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?
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posted on
12/12/2004 10:05:45 AM PST
by
killjoy
(My kid is the bomb at Islam Elementary!)
To: Rebel_Ace
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?"
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posted on
12/12/2004 10:08:14 AM PST
by
No Longer Free State
(If integrity does not reside in the captain of the ship, then it is not on board)
To: FreePaul
Mena Arkansas druglord ping!
17
posted on
12/12/2004 10:09:45 AM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(FREE people needn't apply to a Government of/by/for the People for a gun (PERSONAL PROPERTY) permit!)
To: tet68
"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.
To: Lancey Howard
Likely poor writing, but a single gunshot could cause more than one wound.
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
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