...commit suicide why would the government wait until 2004 to kill him?
I liked the movie but, as others have posted, it did seem to wrap up pretty fast at the end. Unless he was working on a new investigative article in 2004, which the movie never mentioned at the end, there was no reason for the government to "Kill the Messenger" in 2004, seven years after he resigned from the San Jose Mercury News.
A better question is, how does one commit suicide by shooting themselves in the head "twice"? The last time I checked the human body only has one brain and when you put a bullet into it you become incapacitated or you die. Either way your not firing another shot. Try looking up how many witnesses against the government commit suicide by shooting themselves in the head multiple times. It's a very strange phenomenon to say the least.
shareI could see it if he had used a semi-automatic, particularly a small-caliber one. Put the barrel in your mouth, pull the trigger, the first bullet hits, you reflexively pull the trigger a second time. The second shot would most likely go off as the barrel was coming out of your mouth, so the shot would be through the cheek or off of the forehead or outside of the jaw.
With a .38 revolver, two shots is very weird.
The first shot grazed him, I believe it went through his cheek.
shareThat's even weirder. Generally with suicide attempts, if it doesn't work, it takes a while for a second attempt. You would use up most of your nerve to pull the trigger the first time. Afterwards you would be so pumped with adrenaline and either intense relief or despair that you probably couldn't pull the trigger again.
shareThe CIA used David Webb to eliminate Webb and make it look like a suicide.
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