Gary Webb's son Ian talks about the film in which Jeremy Renner plays his late journalist father. The normal process is, or should be, that a reporter files a story and is robustly challenged by his paper's lawyers and editors - who, if satisfied that the report is accurate - publish, then defend the writer to the hilt. [10] The series, which examined the murder of a coal company president with ties to organized crime, won the national Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for reporting from a small newspaper. The Mercury News reporter came under sustained attack from the weightier US newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and, especially, the Los Angeles Times, infuriated at being scooped, on its own patch, by what it saw as a small-town paper. "That's right," says Blum. I have also followed up on key topics raised by Paul Cottrell will leading industry experts like Dr. Peter McCollough on the Tommy Carrigan Show, weekly in 2021 and 2022. "They use the giant corporate press rather than saying anything directly. Webb's condition exacerbated his natural recklessness. In 1996, the award-winning journalist Gary Webb uncovered CIA links to Los Angeles drug dealers. "Gary didn't take her seriously," says Susan Bell, "because he was always getting calls alleging weird stuff about the CIA. He was the journalist who wrote a famous-or infamous-1996 series for the San Jose Mercury News that maintained a CIA-supported drug ring based in Los Angeles had triggered the. Gary Webb famously died of two gun shot wounds to the head and his death that was ruled a suicide, is the common sense notion that this was clearly assassination true? Webb, a Pullitzer prize winning journalist, exposed CIA drug trafficking operations in a series of books and reports for the San Jose Mercury News. "He was crying. Yes. In the six years he worked at its Sacramento office, he won the HL Mencken award, for a story exposing corruption in California's drug enforcement agency, and his Pulitzer prize - won jointly, as part of a Mercury News team covering the 1990 Loma Prieta earthquake. He is from United States. For two years, Blum and Kerry supervised the interrogation of dozens of witnesses who described CIA-related drug deals in central America. Both sides were left angry and disappointed. Webb's series was published on the Mercury News's fledgling website, but it wasn't exactly an instant sensation. There was no coffin, casket or tombstone. He also stated "the series presented dangerous ideas" by suggesting "crimes of state had been committed" (i.e. We had this huge team of people at the L.A. Times and kind of piled on to one lone muckraker up in Northern California." She and Gary were married from 1979 to 2000 and had three children. "But Gary thought that if something was true, it should be told. Webb's research took a year, in the course of which he received death threats. Webb took a modestly paid, low-profile job as an investigator with the California State Legislature. If you work through friendly reporters on major newspapers, it comes off as The New York Times saying it and not a mouthpiece of the CIA. Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst with the George Washington University's National Security Archive, was one of the first to suggest that Webb had overplayed his hand in the Mercury News version of "Dark Alliance". . ", Webb had already been cremated and his ashes scattered in the bay off Santa Cruz two weeks before. "[76] Scott Herhold, Webb's first editor at The Mercury-News, wrote in a 2013 column that "Gary Webb was a journalist of outsized talent. It found that Blandn received permanent resident status "in a wholly improper manner" and that for some time the Department "was not certain whether to prosecute Meneses, or use him as a cooperating witness." Unto his romantic life, Gary married Gemma O'Neil in 1997. "Gary was 18 and I was 16 when we first met and started dating in Indianapolis," said Sue Stokes. Few reporters I've known could match his nose for an investigative story. Webb discusses the "Dark Alliance" controversy, including the government's refusal to respond to his story and the media's desire to kill it. It found that "the allegations contained in the original Mercury News articles were exaggerations of the actual facts." It was just more than he could take.". Noting that most of the activities discussed in the report had nothing to do with the people Webb reported on, Kornbluh told Schou, "I can't say it's a vindication. That was just the way he was.". [50] By January, Webb filed drafts of four more articles based on his trip, but his editors concluded that the new articles would not help shore up the original series's claims. Attorneys' Offices. [81], Peter Kornbluh, a researcher at George Washington University's National Security Archives, also does not agree that the report vindicated the series. In August 1996, Gary Webb published in the San Jose Mercury News a 20,000 word, three-part series entitled "Dark Alliance".The articles detailed the nexus between a California coke kingpin, CIA officials and assets and the Nicaraguan Contra army, whose . March 13, 1954 December 19, 2021 Gary Lynn Webb, 67, entered the kingdom of his heavenly father in the early morning of December 19, 2021. But while Webb overreached, some key findings in "Dark Alliance" were on target-and important. He also defended the series in interviews with all three papers. "Look at what happened to Gary Webb. "People told me that," she says. A perceptive, engaging woman of 48, she has turned an adjoining study into a small shrine to her late husband, who would have celebrated his 50th birthday five weeks ago. He became an investigator for the California State Legislature, published a book based on the "Dark Alliance" series in 1998, and did freelance investigative reporting. In 1997 Ceppos was awarded the US Society of Professional Journalists' National Ethics Award. He made that very clear. [22], The lede of the first article set out the series' basic claims: "For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency." Sacramento Bee The Sacramento County Coroner's Office issued a statement Tuesday after receiving calls about investigative journalist Gary Webb's death being caused by more than one wound . If he could have chosen his own epitaph, it might have been a line from the letter he posted to Bell, immediately before he killed himself: "I do not regret," Webb told her, "anything that I have written." When they married, she was aged just 21. I believe that we fell short at every step of our process: in the writing, editing and production of our work. At that time, Webb (pictured) was best known for the controversial three-part CIA 1996 expose he wrote the San Jose Mercury News called "Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion." "And to an extent, they succeeded.". What he found, he wrote later, "nearly knocked me off my chair". Some editors regarded him as stubborn to the point of insolence. "He walked in one day," Bell recalls, "and said, 'You are not going to believe what I just found out.' They failed because the climate was more sceptical then. [44], Ceppos' column drew editorial responses from both The New York Times and The Washington Post. We were dismissed as a bunch of nuts." But ultimately, the responsibility was, and is, mine.". After Ceppos' column, The Mercury News spent the next several months conducting an internal review of the story. The CIA denied the charges, and every major newspaper in the country . This drug ring "opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles" and, as a result, "The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America."[23]. "[2], Ceppos noted that Webb did not agree with these conclusions. Born January 3rd, 1943 in Montreal, Quebec, he was the son of the late John Douglas Webb and the late Jeannie (Penny) Hardie Penman. * The agency's response was to try to prevent him from getting his doctorate, then block his advancement in the academic world. "Like enjoy it.". The Pariah. According to the report, the Inspector-General's office (OIG) examined all information the agency had "relating to CIA knowledge of drug trafficking allegations in regard to any person directly or indirectly involved in Contra activities." So he blew her off. Unable to get work from any major US newspaper, he spent the four months before his death writing for * a free-sheet covering the Sacramento area. Tara Becker-Gray Lee News Network Jan 17, 2019 0 1 of 2 C. Webb The body found at a house fire at 13308 95th Ave. in rural Blue Grass on Thursday night has been identified as Cynthia Webb, 59.. "[25] It also found disparities in the treatment of Black and White traffickers in the justice system, contrasting the treatment of Blandn and Ross after their arrests for drug trafficking. He was the much-loved father of Lindsay (Stephen . Ross was also released early after cooperating in an investigation of police corruption, but was rearrested a few months later in a sting operation arranged with Blandn's help. [59], The first volume of the report found no evidence that "any past or present employee of CIA, or anyone acting on behalf of CIA, had any direct or indirect dealing" with Ross, Blandn, or Meneses or that any of the other figures mentioned in "Dark Alliance" were ever employed by or associated with or contacted by the agency. In May 1997, after an internal review, Ceppos stated that, although the story was right on many important points, there were shortcomings in the writing, editing and production of the series. After his resignation from The Mercury News, Webb expanded the "Dark Alliance" series into a book that responded to the criticism of the series and described his experiences writing the story and dealing with the controversy. Webb put in a call to Robert Parry. Army. George Webb and Paul Cottrell have begun a weekly series on CoronaVirus now, Mondays at 5PM, EST on paul Cottrell's Rumble Channel. "If there was an eye to the storm," Katz wrote, "if there was a mastermind behind crack's decade-long reign, if there was one outlaw most responsible for flooding LA's streets with mass-marketed cocaine, his name was Freeway Rick. His father was a British Airways bus driver based at Heathrow Airport, and his mother Beryl later ran his fan club at the height of his fame. With hindsight, Bell says, "the signs were there. Gary divorced from his wife in 2000, though the two remained close during his final years. "Looking back," she says, "I think Gary had been obsessed with suicide for some time. As we now know today thanks to Gary's . Garry Webb wrote the 1996 "Dark Alliance" series for the San Jose Mercury News. The first one, "The California Story," was issued in a classified version on December 17, 1997, and in an unclassified version on January 29, 1998. "Do you think that a part of him did this out of revenge?" According to Walt Bogdanich, a former colleague on the Plain Dealer who has won two Pulitzers and now works for The New York Times, Webb was the best retriever of information from public records he has ever seen. The article discussed Webb's contacts with Ross's attorney and prosecution complaints of how Ross's defense had used Webb's series. "I had to warn Gary that what he was looking at was probably true, but that he would run very big risks," Parry recalls. [65], After leaving The Mercury News, Webb worked as an investigator for the California State Legislature. Gary Webb became, quite unfairly, the victim of one of the most extraordinary examples of piling on by the mainstream press, ever.". The series follows the stories of several characters whose lives are fated to intersect including CIA operative Teddy McDonald who helps to secure guns for the Contras. "It was the worst day of my life." He leaves behind the love of his life and adoring wife of 41 years, Anne Michelle Phillips. On December 10th, 2004 Gary Webb was found dead of two (allegedly self-inflicted) gunshots to the head. [19] The series was published in The Mercury News in three parts, from Sunday, 18 August 1996 to 20 August 1996, with a first long article and one or two shorter articles appearing each day. "You sound very scared," Moreira remarks. The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress. Then, in August the same year, the first of three instalments of "Dark Alliance" appeared. [11], In 1983, Webb moved to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where he continued doing investigative work. Gary Webb is dead. An investigative journalist, Webb became interested in the covert activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. GARY WEBB OBITUARY. He later picked the surname 'Numan' from an . The three articles in the series were written by four reporters: Jesse Katz, Doyle McManus, John Mitchell and Sam Fulwood. He was previously married to Sue Bell. Obituaries / August 21, 2021. Webb, unlike Blum or Kerry, had to face his difficulties alone. They were outraged by the series's charges.[27]. Webb's continuing reporting also triggered a fourth investigation. It also sparked an . He was assigned to its Sacramento bureau, where he was allowed to choose most of his own stories. ", "After Gary died," she says, "a reporter from the LA Times came here. "He was sleeping more, he hated to get up in the morning, he started having a lot of motorcycle. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department began its own investigation into the "Dark Alliance" claims.[30]. The response from the American press took two months to arrive. [6], Webb first began writing for the student newspaper at his college in Indianapolis. The follow-up reporting in the Los Angeles Times and other papers has been criticised for focusing on problems in the series rather than re-examining the earlier CIA-Contra claims. He was a former member of Bethlehem . Gary's documentation is awesome and his work ethic is unbelievable. [68], In August 2004, Webb joined the Sacramento News & Review, an alternative weekly newspaper, where he continued doing investigative writing. [56] He resigned from the paper in November 1997. The second volume, "The Contra Story," was issued in a classified version on April 27, 1998, and in an unclassified version on October 8, 1998. "Gary Webb was left to fend for himself. and Drugs Has a Life of Its Own", "Pivotal Figures of Newspaper Series May Be Only Bit Players", "Tracking the Genesis of the Crack Trade", "Examining Charges of CIA Role in Crack Sales", "History Fuels Outrage Over Crack Allegations", "Ex-L.A. Times Writer Apologizes for "Tawdry" Attacks", "Mercury News Executive Editor Jerry Ceppos' Letter to the Washington Post", "Washington Post response to Mercury News Executive Editor Jerry Ceppos", "Despite critics, a good story Crack and the contras", "CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Controversy: Epilogue", "CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Controversy: Conclusions", United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, "Are You Sure You Want to Ruin Your Career? He also had this inherent belief that the truth could not harm him. He wrote that the series likely "oversimplified" the crack epidemic in America and the supposed "critical role" the dealers written about in the series played in it. Like Schou, Corn cites the inspector general's report, which he says "acknowledged that the CIA had indeed worked with suspected drugrunners (sic) while supporting the contras. . Working in San Jose would have meant daily contact with what Bell describes as "people he did not want to be with". Gary Webb's Ex-Wife Set to Attend New York Premiere By Richard Horgan October 8, 2014 Cleveland Plain Dealer film critic Clint O'Connor had a solid feature the other day about Kill the. [60], The House Intelligence Committee issued its report in February 2000. Webb's ex wife, Susan Bell told reporters that she believed Webb had died by suicide. Asking why crack became so prevalent in the Black community of Los Angeles, the article credited Blandn, referring to him as "the Johnny Appleseed of crack in California. By the time Webb began researching Dark Alliance, Bell was 38 and they had three children. Although he attended Northern Kentucky for four years, he did not finish his degree. Gary Webb, friends say, was a far more combative character than either the Mercury News's executive editor Ceppos or page editor Garcia. When Webb pressed the Mercury News to allow him to investigate the LA connection further, his own newspaper issued a retraction which earned its editor, Jerry Ceppos, wide praise from rival publications, but effectively disowned Webb, who then suffered the kind of corporate lynching that reporters are usually expected to dispense rather than endure. After police brought the three passengers back to the station, the news had come: John Grachek died at the hospital. After a lengthy battle with cancer, Beth Webb, wife of Pastor Gary Webb at Grace Polaris Church, Westerville, Ohio, was released from her earthly suffering and passed into the presence of Jesus on Wednesday afternoon. [72] A New York Times profile of Webb in June 1997 noted that two of his series written for the Cleveland Plain Dealer had resulted in lawsuits that the paper had settled. Edmund Webb: Birthdate: estimated between 1751 and 1805 : Death: Immediate Family: Son of Edmund Webb and Nancy Webb Husband of Milly Clark Brother of Daniel Gary Webb; Nancy Lester; Polly Webb; John Webb; Elizabeth "Betsey" Webb and 1 other. The first detailed article on the series's claims appeared in The Washington Post in early October. [31] In their front-page article, reporters Roberto Suro and Walter Pincus wrote that "available information" did not support the series's claims and that "the rise of crack" was "a broad-based phenomenon" driven in numerous places by diverse players. . "I believe that Americans, as a nation, are mainly concerned with living their happy little lives. In 2015 Gary Webb, from Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries and Galloway . ", Many of these are in the series archive at. Webb worked for several newspapers including The Kentucky Post and Cleveland Plain Dealer. Baca claimed that a drug dealer with close links to the CIA had framed her boyfriend, who was also in the cocaine business. "[58], It also concluded that "the claims that Blandn and Meneses were responsible for introducing crack cocaine into South Central Los Angeles and spreading the crack epidemic throughout the country were unsupported." When he told me, I said it sounded crazy. The review was conducted primarily by editor Jonathan Krim and reporter Pete Carey, who had written the paper's first published analysis of the series. [71] When asked by local reporters about the possibility of two gunshots being a suicide, Lyons replied "It's unusual in a suicide case to have two shots, but it has been done in the past, and it is in fact a distinct possibility." And yet, for all his Easy Rider tendencies, he was also a dedicated family man with an extraordinary appetite for researching minutiae. Because Blandn cooperated with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), he spent only 28 months in prison, became a paid government informant, and received permanent resident status. His wife, Gemma, was a member of the Sidcup fan club. Pictured as a teenage fan: Gary Numan with Gemma, his now wife, getting his autograph in 1985 years before they got together Gary was 600,000 in debt, and on the verge of going under in. When his medical insurance expired, he stopped taking his antidepressants. [54] Editors at the paper, on the other hand, felt that Webb had failed to tell them about information that contradicted the series's claims and that he "responded to concerns not with reasoned argument, but with accusations of us selling him out. It's . Managed by: Pam Wilson (may be slow to respond) Last Updated: "Everyone got out and left the person who had made the noise - issued the report - alone. To show this, the series focused on three men: Ricky Ross, Oscar Danilo Blandn, and Norwin Meneses. When she got indignant," she adds, "he went to meet her.". [66] The room is decorated with his trophies: a Pulitzer prize hangs next to his HL Mencken award; also on the wall is a framed advertisement for The Kentucky Post. [51], The editors met with Webb several times in February to discuss the results of the paper's internal review and eventually decided to print neither Carey's draft article nor the articles Webb had filed. I felt weak and distressed; the whole thing was so fresh. Call 911 for assistance. He had sold his house the week before his death because he was unable to afford the mortgage. Webb resigned from The Mercury News in December 1997. After divorcing his wife, being unable to obtain work from newspapers and facing increasing debts, Gary was forced to sell his home. When removal men arrived, on the morning of 10 December 2004, they found a sign on his front door, which read: ''Please do not enter. Its pointed to as one of the clearer cases of CIA intervention as revenge for Webb revealing damaging secrets about the agencies involvement in drug smuggling. Gary was born Sept. 4, 1947, to Percy and Pauline (Haas) Webb. His death was ruled a suicide by the Sacramento County coroner's office. He then transferred to nearby Northern Kentucky University. When Webb wrote another story on the raid evidence in early October, it received wide attention in Los Angeles. [5], After high school, Webb attended an Indianapolis community college on a scholarship until his family moved to Cincinnati. Walter Bogdanich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who worked with Webb on The Plain Dealer, told American Journalism Review editor Susan Paterno "He was brilliant; he knew more about public records than anybody I've ever known. 17 years ago, Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that said some bad things about the CIA and drug traffickers. "Report on Alleged Involvement: Findings" 43. [17] The Mercury News's coverage of the earthquake won its staff the Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting in 1990. Gary Webb was born in Corona, California, in 1955. [45], The Post's response came from the paper's ombudsman, Geneva Overholser. The collection, The Killing Game: Selected Stories from the Author of Dark Alliance, was edited by Webb's son, Eric. His. And it ruined that reporter's career. After being reassigned to the Mercury News's office in Curpertino, where they had him writing death notices, Gary Webb resigned and fell into depression. 2 years ago, this past week, I sat on a beach in Del Mar with my wife and she asked me, "When you get to the end of your life, what will you regret "But that," pointed out Blum, who is now a Washington attorney, "in no way - in no way - diminishes the wrongness of what these bastards did. After the series's publication, the Northern California branch of the national Society of Professional Journalists voted Webb "Journalist of the Year" for 1996. This did not happen in Webb's case. The story offered no evidence to support such sweeping conclusions, a fatal error that would ultimately destroy Webb, if not his editors. "Back then. Jeremy Renner plays Gary Webb in "Kill the Messenger." (Chuck Zlotnick/Focus Features) Webb resigned and wrote a book defending his reporting. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 19, 2003 at Goodrich United Methodist Church, 8071 S. State Rd., Goodrich, Pastor Karl Zeigler will officiate. Within weeks, the site was attracting up to 1.3m hits per day. Investigative journalist Gary Webb wrote a series of stories in 1996 for the San Jose Mercury News that documented the US-government-backed Contra insurgents' drug pipeline into Los Angeles. "[82], Kill the Messenger (2014) is based on Webb's book Dark Alliance and Nick Schou's biography of Webb. In a long review of the series' claims in The Baltimore Sun, Weinberg said "I think the critics have been far too harsh. The series examined the origins of the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles and claimed that members of the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua had played a major role in creating the trade, using cocaine profits to finance their fight against the government in Nicaragua. The article suggested this was in retribution for Ross' testimony in the corruption case. He wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, which initially backed his articles but later dropped him. "[64] Webb's longest response to the controversy was in "The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On," a chapter he contributed to an anthology of press criticism: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. Born in Corona, California, son of a conservatively minded Marine, he met Bell, whose father was a university lecturer, at high school in Indianapolis. 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