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]: Gary Webb, *Dark Alliance*, Ch. 27. [^2]: Gary Webb, *Dark Alliance*, Ch. 27.