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. ", "After Gary died," she says, "a reporter from the LA Times came here. Gary Webb, a journalist at The San Jose Mercury News, thought it was a far-fetched story to begin with, but in 1995 and 1996, he dug in and produced a deeply reported and deeply flawed three-part . "It was terrible," said Price. Beth Ann Webb May 10, 1962 - May 22, 2019. The series provoked outrage, particularly in the Los Angeles African-American community, and led to four major investigations of its charges. Although it did find that both men were major drug dealers, "guilty of enriching themselves at the expense of countless drug users," and that they had contributed money to the Contra cause, "we did not find that their activities were responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic in South Central Los Angeles, much less the rise of crack throughout the nation, or that they were a significant source of support for the Contras. That wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been willing to stand up and risk it all.". "He started having motorcycle crashes," Bell says. Webb is best known for his "Dark Alliance" series, which appeared in The Mercury News in 1996. Webb conducted a year-long investigation during which he discovered that a San Francisco-based drug ring, which had ties to a CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan contra group called the FDN, sold cocaine to. In a three-part expos, investigative journalist Gary Webb reported that a guerrilla army in Nicaragua had used crack cocaine sales in Los Angeles' black neighborhoods to fund an attempted coup of Nicaragua's socialist government in the 1980s and that the CIA had purposefully funded it. It was an amazing scoop - but one that would ruin his career and drive him to suicide. He had a tight circle that included almost no one from the Mercury News, says his former wife, Susan Bell, and a sensitive side he rarely showed outside the bounds of his close friends and family. "You do not understand the power of these people," he adds, referring to the US intelligence services. But while Webb overreached, some key findings in "Dark Alliance" were on target-and important. "He was crying. During and immediately after the controversy over "Dark Alliance," Webb's earlier writing was examined closely. It was good that his story forced those reports to come out, but part of what made that happen was based on misleading information. Webb, a Pullitzer prize winning journalist, exposed CIA drug trafficking operations in a series of books and reports for the San Jose Mercury News. 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. Leen, who covered the cocaine trade for the Miami Herald in the 1980s, rejects the claim that "because the report uncovered an agency mindset of indifference to drug-smuggling allegations", it vindicated Webb's reporting. "I think the behaviour of the media in all of this has been amazing," says Bell. The Sad Saga of Gary Webb. After police brought the three passengers back to the station, the news had come: John Grachek died at the hospital. Begun 1996, the divorce and battle over cash of Grammy winner Jimmy Webb age 75, father of six, wed 22 years to Patsy, 64, daughter of late actor Barry Sullivan is getting longer. ", As Webb would tell a friend, after he had been ostracised: "You have to look out, when the big dog gets off the porch.". Nobody who heads a government agency can let such an allegation stand.". The men were identified as 29-year-old Gary Webb and 24-year-old Jacob Gipson. Webb took a modestly paid, low-profile job as an investigator with the California State Legislature. It also stated that the Contras may have acted with the knowledge and protection of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). And "we really didn't do anything to advance his work or illuminate much to the story, and it was a really kind of tawdry exercise. Age 57 of Newcomb, Tennessee passed away Friday, August 20, 2021 at the Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. According to the report's "Epilogue," the report was completed in December 1997 but was not released because the DEA was still attempting to use Danilo Blandn in an investigation of international drug dealers and was concerned that the report would affect the viability of the investigation. Ceppos failed to reply to one phone message and six emails. Webb's ex wife, Susan Bell told reporters that she believed Webb had died by suicide. "[79], Writing after Webb's death in 2005, The Nation magazine's former Washington Editor David Corn said that Webb "was on to something but botched part of how he handled it." "They tried to make us look like crazies," says Blum. [65], Within "The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On" essay Webb stated he believed there was an active "collusion between the press and the powerful" to report freely on inconsequential matters, "but when it comes to the real down and dirty stuff We begin to see the limits of our freedoms". Parry, the first reporter to write about the US authorities' drug-running on behalf of the Contras, had survived a campaign by the White House to discredit first his story, then his reputation. 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. When Ross discovered the market for crack in Los Angeles, he began buying cocaine from Blandn. ", The significant legacy of the Webb case, "the reason this whole affair remains so significant today," Blum says, "is this: the knowledge that, if one individual dares raise such serious issues, they risk confronting a tremendous apparatus that is prepared to whack them hard, and there is very little they can expect by way of support. She kept crying about how terrible it all was - by which I mean that she was, physically, crying. The three articles in the series were written by four reporters: Jesse Katz, Doyle McManus, John Mitchell and Sam Fulwood. The 20,000-word series enraged black communities, prompted Congressional hearings, and became one of the first major national security stories in history to blow up online. He was assigned to its Sacramento bureau, where he was allowed to choose most of his own stories. I mean - please.". While working at the legislature, Webb continued to do freelance investigative reporting, sometimes based on his investigative work. Wlaf1450. His former wife, her voice lowered to a whisper, explains that Webb missed with the first shot (which exited through his left cheek). [41], When the Los Angeles Times series appeared, Ceppos again wrote to defend the original series. 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. The first shot went through his face, and exited at his left cheek. "[55] In June 1997, The Mercury News told Webb it was transferring him from the paper's Sacramento bureau and offered him a choice between working at the main offices in San Jose under closer editorial supervision, or spot reporting in Cupertino; both locations were long commutes from his home in Sacramento. The series. George Webb and Paul Cottrell have begun a weekly series on CoronaVirus now, Mondays at 5PM, EST on paul Cottrell's Rumble Channel. Army. GARY WEBB OBITUARY. With Baca's encouragement, he started to investigate a large-scale Nicaraguan cocaine dealer named Oscar Danilo Blandn. The claim that the drug ring of Meneses-Blandn-Ross sparked the "crack explosion" has been perhaps the most criticized part of the series. His series of articles - which prompted the distinguished reporter and former Newsweek Washington correspondent Robert Parry to describe Webb as "an American hero" - incited fury among the African-American community, many of whom took his investigation as proof that the White House saw crack as a way of bringing genocide to the ghetto. He was a former member of Bethlehem . Moreira - a senior news producer for Canal Plus - has established a reputation for courage and independence of mind in his own foreign reporting, and was recently described by Le Monde as "the Che Guevara of news media". [44], Ceppos' column drew editorial responses from both The New York Times and The Washington Post. As it turned out," she adds, "that was not their intent.". He made that very clear. He began his career working for newspapers in Kentucky and Ohio, winning numerous awards, and building a strong reputation for investigative writing. 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." Managed by: Pam Wilson (may be slow to respond) Last Updated: [68], In August 2004, Webb joined the Sacramento News & Review, an alternative weekly newspaper, where he continued doing investigative writing. So he blew her off. He concluded, "How did these shortcomings occur? The series revolves around the first crack epidemic and its impact on the culture of the city. And the importance of exposing them. He was a writer, known for Kill the Messenger (2014), Filming in Georgia (2015) and Crack in America (2015). Almost. "He had six in a short period of time." But as Krim told Webb's biographer Nick Schou, "The zeal that helped make Gary a relentless reporter was coupled with an inability to question himself, to entertain the notion that he might have erred. One time he called me and he said: 'I have this plan that will benefit us both.' After divorcing his wife, being unable to obtain work from newspapers and facing increasing debts, Gary was forced to sell his home. Yes. Such a case normally would have sparked little notice. Do something else with your life," the voice urges. [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. 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. Irene's character a reminder of an old controversy about Gary Webb. Attorneys' Offices. At the commemorative service for Webb, held at the Doubletree Hotel in Sacramento, Bell read out the letter Webb had written to his son Eric, now 17. 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. 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. [6], Webb first began writing for the student newspaper at his college in Indianapolis. For two years, Blum and Kerry supervised the interrogation of dozens of witnesses who described CIA-related drug deals in central America. Can these things possibly be? Gary Douglas Webb of Radnor, PA, passed away on October 19, 2021. He was previously married to Sue Bell. Newsweek called Kerry a "randy conspiracy buff". [60], It found no information to support the claim that the agency interfered with law enforcement actions against Ross, Blandn or Meneses. "You sound very scared," Moreira remarks. Webb's pieces were not dealing with nameless peasants slaughtered in some distant republic, but demonstrated a clear link between the CIA and the suppliers of the gangs delivering crack to the ghetto of Watts, in South Central Los Angeles. According to Corn, Webb "was wrong on some important details, but he was, in a way, closer to the truth than many of his establishment media critics who neglected the story of the real CIA-contra-cocaine connection." [35] The second article, by McManus, was the longest of the series and dealt with the role of the Contras in the drug trade and CIA knowledge of drug activities by the Contras. Price placed Webb as the shooter. "People told me that," she says. It also sparked an . 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. That was just the way he was.". He later picked the surname 'Numan' from an . Last December Webb committed suicide. Then, on 10 December, he resigned. Do not quote me on anything.". The first article, by Katz, developed a different picture of the origins of the crack trade than "Dark Alliance" had described, with more gangs and smugglers participating. When Webb's body was discovered last December, Bell says, this last item had been dumped in the trash. Webb's experience came as no surprise to Jack Blum, senior prosecutor for the Kerry Committee. With hindsight, Bell says, "the signs were there. He celebrated his 62nd birthday in 2020. When his body was found, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was on the DVD machine, and his favourite CD, Ian Hunter's live album Welcome to the Club, was in the CD player. By the end of September, three federal investigations had been announced: an investigation into the CIA allegations conducted by CIA Inspector-General Frederick Hitz, an investigation into the law enforcement allegations by Justice Department Inspector-General Michael Bromwich, and a second investigation into the CIA by the House Intelligence Committee. The story they printed was just awful. 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? "[78], While finding this part of the series unsupported, Schou said that some of the series's claims on CIA involvement are supported, writing that "The CIA conducted an internal investigation that acknowledged in March 1998 that the agency had covered up Contra drug trafficking for more than a decade." Webb worked for several newspapers including The Kentucky Post and Cleveland Plain Dealer. "[62] It also found no evidence to support Webb's suggestion that several other drug smugglers mentioned in the series were associated with the CIA, or that anyone associated with the CIA or other intelligence agencies was involved in supplying or selling drugs in Los Angeles.[62]. 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. Webb's ex wife, Susan Bell told reporters that she believed Webb had died by suicide. On December 10th, 2004 Gary Webb was found dead of two (allegedly self inflicted) gun shots to the head. 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. Gary E. Webb, a dedicated husband, dad, pappy, coach, mentor, teacher, supporter, hero, and best friend, was called home by the Lord while surrounded by family. [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. [66] After the publication of "Dark Alliance," The Mercury News continued to pursue the story, publishing follow-ups to the original series for the next three months. He stayed home, playing computer games, and began smoking cannabis heavily. [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. In February last year he was laid off by the State Legislature. Calling the Post's overall focus "misplaced", Overholser expressed regret that the paper had not taken the opportunity to re-examine whether the CIA had overlooked Contra involvement in drug smuggling, "a subject The Post and the public had given short shrift. 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. [29] Waters urged the CIA, the Department of Justice, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to investigate. The consensus, insofar as one exists, is that he probably overstated both the amount of drug money made by Ross and Blandn, and the percentage of those profits diverted to the Contras. "But Gary thought that if something was true, it should be told. Sue remarried two years ago. Webb joined the Mercury News in 1988, via the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Work with a bunch of drug dealers to run guns? [52] Webb was allowed to keep working on the story and made one more trip to Nicaragua in March. He was one of six reporters at the San Jose Mercury News to win a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting for a series of stories on the collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct during northern California's 1989 earthquake. This emotive last phrase refers to Webb's experience in the immediate aftermath of publication of his three lengthy articles, in the summer of 1996. Gary Webb was born in Corona, California, in 1955. He went into the bedroom, and picked up a .38 that had belonged to his father. 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. By the time Webb began researching Dark Alliance, Bell was 38 and they had three children. Snowfall is an American crime drama television series set in Los Angeles in 1983. Gary was preceded in death by his mother and father, Donna and James Webb of Carpentersville. Ross was a major drug dealer in Los Angeles. Ceppos initially defended Webb, and reportedly showed up at an in-house party wearing a military helmet. [57], The report covered actions by Department of Justice employees in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the DEA, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and U.S. His wife, Gemma, was a member of the Sidcup fan club. And when he got something in his head, he was determined to do it. On the last day Webb was alive, his motorbike broke down while he was moving to his mother's house. When it did, beginning with The Washington Post, it shocked Webb's critics as much as his many admirers. By 1997, Bell tells me, Webb - whose 30-year career had earned him more awards than there is room for in her study - had been reassigned to the Mercury News's office in Cupertino. Survivors include his wife, Karla Webb; their children, Kimberly Ware and husband, Kyle, Laci Higgins and husband, Wesley, Kenna Logan and Heath Webb and . "By the end of his life he was just in a lot of pain," said Webb's ex-wife, Susan Bell. [32], The New York Times published two articles on the series in mid-October, both written by reporter Tim Golden. His wife is Sue Webb (m. 1979-2000) Gary Webb Net Worth His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. "As a PhD student, McCoy went to Vietnam and built an absolutely damning case about the CIA's involvement with trafficking heroin. "He thought I was being cowardly. The story was picked up by black talk-radio stations. "He rang me up that day. He had sold his house the week before his death because he was unable to afford the mortgage. He wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, which initially backed his articles but later dropped him. When he was engaged, he worked hard. "Gary Webb was left to fend for himself. Baca claimed that a drug dealer with close links to the CIA had framed her boyfriend, who was also in the cocaine business. When Attorney General Janet Reno determined that a delay was no longer necessary, the report was released unaltered. In 1986, Webb wrote an article saying that the Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, Frank D. Celebrezze accepted contributions from groups with organized crime connections. Should these editors subsequently deem the story to have been fatally flawed, they take the consequences. [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. The Pariah. "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. [3], Webb was born in Corona, California. 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