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This calculation should be regarded as a conservative estimate: the actual odds against such a "coincidence" would be much greater. For example, if any of the biographers were female, the odds would be even greater."

The press hasn't even bothered with the usual "he was known to be depressed" stories yet.

* Author can be reached at ken@brasscheck.com

AP (Associated Propaganda) story follows (please note "gunshot wounds" as in plural in the "story." As in -- he missed his head once so he tried again?

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/11744167p-12630255c.html

"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."

Note the plural "wounds". An actual suicide from a gunshot to the head wouldn't leave the victim in any state to pull the trigger a second time.