Now, a movie has been made about his life. In 1996 Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb wrote a hard-hitting series for the San Jose Mercury News exposing how the CIA imported cocaine into the United States and sold it in South Central L.A. In spite of reams of evidence, he was forced to leave his job. He wrote a book about the subject instead. In 2004 he was found dead of an apparent suicide. He was 49 years old. According to an interview he gave on Democracy Now, a prosecutor who was looking into the CIA cocaine dealing had been found dead of "suicide." According to the same interview, a former Contra turned whistleblower was found dead of an apparent drug overdose after predicting the CIA might stage such an incident. A movie about Gary Webb, Kill the Messenger comes out on Friday.
See more about Gary Webb here:
http://www.democracy...iance_gary_webb
http://www.democracy...iance_gary_webb
He was a great journalist and a courageous human being. If there was a purple heart for journalists, he should have gotten one.
The wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail. -- Howard Zinn
Edited by Luminosity, 09 October 2014 - 06:02 AM.
