Gary Webb
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American investigative journalist (1955–2004)
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- Works
- 9
Top works
- Book Reviews That Sell
- Meaning of the Cross
- Prepare! Publish! Promote! Book 1
- Lasting Weight Loss
- With This Ring... Marriage Through the Eyes of Its Creator
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1958-03-08
Discography
- The Pleasure Principle1979
- Telekon1980
- Dance1981
- I, Assassin1982
- Warriors1983
- Berserker1984
- The Fury1985
- Strange Charm1986
- Metal Rhythm1988
- Outland1991
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- Listeners
- 171
- Total plays
- 466
Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was a Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist. Webb is most known for investigating the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan death squads of the 1980s; the Reagan administration and the CIA illegally smuggled tons of cocaine from South America into Los Angeles and sold it to the Crip street gang, thus spawning the crack epidemic of the 1980s. The drug money was then used to fund death squads in Nicaragua to prevent an anti-imperialist governme
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,862x
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,413x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,577x
- Dynamic capabilities and strategic management
· 1997 · cited 19,798x
- <i>MolProbity</i>: all-atom structure validation for macromolecular crystallography
· 2009 · cited 13,857x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stephen
- Family name
- Webb
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Corona
- Place of death
- Carmichael
- Occupation
- journalist
- Educated at
- Northern Kentucky University
- Employer
- The Mercury News
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- investigative journalism
- Number of children
- 3
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- date of death
- 2004-12-10
- date of birth
- 1955-08-31
- cause of death
- gunshot wound
- birth name
- Gary Stephen Webb
- name in native language
- Gary Webb
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- end of work period
- 2004-00-00
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