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+category: "U.S. State"
+tags:
+  - geography
+  - u.s.-state
+  - contra-war
+summary: Indiana was where Gary Webb was attending a party when the Dark Alliance series was published online on August 18, 1996.
+---
+Indiana was where [[Gary Webb]] was attending a party at his best friend's house in Indianapolis when the [[Dark Alliance]] series was published online on August 18, 1996. Webb excused himself, went into a bedroom, plugged in his laptop, and dialed into the Mercury News Web site to watch the series go live.[^1]
+
+### Publication Night
+
+At 2:00 A.M. on August 18, 1996, Webb watched as a picture of a man smoking crack, superimposed upon the seal of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], drew itself on the screen. "After more than a year of work, 'Dark Alliance' was finally out." The Indianapolis location placed Webb far from the newsroom in [[San Jose|San Jose, California]] on the night his career-defining work went public, a distance that would prove symbolic as the story took on a life of its own through the Internet.[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 27.
+[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 27.